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  • Amazon’s Multibillion-Dollar Advertising Business; Amazon Smashes Wall Street Expectations

    RetailTechNews’ weekly Amazon Watch brings you some of the company’s biggest moves from the past seven days, analysing how the giant is revolutionising the retail space. In this week’s edition: Amazon’s Multibillion-Dollar Advertising Business; Amazon Smashes Wall Street Expectations; and [...]

  • Whole Foods Launches on Prime Now; Earnings Soar as Amazon Views Overseas Expansion

    RetailTechNews’ weekly Amazon Watch brings you some of the company’s biggest moves from the past seven days, analysing how the giant is revolutionising the retail space. In this week’s edition: Whole Foods Launches on Prime Now; Earnings Soar as Amazon [...]

  • Facebook Revenue Soars Despite Russian Interference

    Facebook’s revenue has surged to USD$10.3bn (£7.8bn), on the back of 47% growth year-on-year. However, its shares fell, as it announced its 2018 expense forecast. The higher expenses for the coming year are mostly driven by expenditure on protecting the [...]

  • Tech Giants Show No Sign of Slowing Down as Twitter, Alphabet & Amazon Post Earnings

    Twitter, Amazon, and Alphabet have all beat analysts’ expectation, posting strong Q3 results. While both Amazon and Alphabet are looking to improve their foothold in Asia, Twitter has boosted its number of monthly average users (MAUs), and looks to be [...]

  • Netflix Beats Own Estimates for Subscriber Growth, But Misses Wall Street Earnings Estimates

    A first price hike since 2015 meant that Netflix turned in lower earnings per share than Wall Street estimated, despite smashing subscriber growth targets for the second consecutive quarter. The company estimated that it would see international subscriber growth of 3.65 [...]

  • Future-Facing Rubicon Project CEO Positive Despite Continued Losses

    Rubicon Project (NYSE:RUBI) released its Q2 2017 earnings after close of trading on 1 August, with a positive outlook coming from Rubicon CEO Michael Barrett, despite the company posting another quarter of losses. Revenue missed expectations across the board at USD$42.9m [...]

  • Facebook Made More Profit Than Google

    Yesterday, 26 July, Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) reported second quarter 2017 results for the quarter ended June 30, 2017. It beat analyst expectations by generating USD$9.32 bn (£7.10 bn) in revenue, up about 45% from the same quarter last year. Facebook’s net income [...]

  • Google's Ad Revenue Reaches USD$23bn

    Yesterday (24 July), Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2017. Alphabet reported a 21% leap in quarterly revenue, a growth rate rarely seen among companies its size and one that suggests the big sales gains enjoyed [...]

  • Netflix Trounces Analysts' Expectations in Q2 Earnings

    Through adding a whopping 5.2 million total subscribers, versus the company forecast of 3.2 million, Netflix soared past Q2 growth targets, both on the domestic and international fronts.  The company was rewarded with an 8% rise in stock price in the [...]

  • Analysis: Google & Twitter Q1 2017 Earnings

    Google are triumphing right now. Despite the YouTube debacle, and resulting advertiser boycott, the company’s stock price reached an all-time peak of USD$937 on 28 April, 2017, after posting favourable Q1 2017 earnings (NASDAQ: GOOGL). The company saw mobile search and [...]