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Facebook Continues To Dominate Global App Downloads, Still Has Growth Potential
Monday, September 11, 2017 - 4:15pm | 387Read More...While global app downloads are to starting to slow down, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) continues to dominate worldwide app downloads. According to the latest report from Statista, of the most downloaded Android Apps worldwide in August, Facebook controlled the top five and seven overall. WhatsApp was...
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Snap Stock Downgraded On Analyst's 'Dented' Confidence
Monday, September 11, 2017 - 10:41am | 367Read More...Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) is trading 34 percent above its all-time low struck in August, and Deutsche Bank doesn’t think it’ll get much better in the short term. “After broad conversations across the ad ecosystem over the last month, feedback was decidedly mixed,” analyst Lloyd...
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How Snapchat Is Trying To Avoid YouTube's Ad Problems
Tuesday, September 5, 2017 - 12:19pm | 506Read More...Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) is looking to avoid the same mistakes YouTube made by placing advertisements over questionable content; the social media platform wants to give customers more control over ad placement. Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s YouTube came under fire earlier in the...
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A Timeline Of How Silicon Valley Reengineered Journalism
Monday, August 28, 2017 - 9:05am | 699Read More...No mid-2000s journalism textbook carries a chapter on Twitter Inc (NASDAQ: TWTR), but today, building a following is must in the trade. No pre-2000s reporter tracked weekly Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) likes, but today, online engagement is a standard newsroom metric. The entire news profession has...
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Cramer Isn't Buying Reports Of Facebook's Demise And Snap's Momentum
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 1:36pm | 369Read More...Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) may have reached peak popularity as teens and young adults get their social media fix elsewhere, eMarketer reported. Instead, the demographic group are spending more time on Facebook's Instagram platform and rival Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP). In fact, Snap's social media...
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Bad Timing? YogaWorks IPO Follows Weak Reports From Newly Public Companies Like Blue Apron, Snapchat
Thursday, August 17, 2017 - 8:43am | 539Read More...The IPO waters are still muddled and troubled, extending the lean patch seen in 2016. Although the year started with much fanfare, with the promise of some delectable offerings, none of 2017's new entrants have lived up to expectations yet. Yogaworks Inc (NASDAQ: YOGA), which debuted last Friday...
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Sorry Snap Investors, But Some Say This Rebound Is Short-Lived
Wednesday, August 16, 2017 - 12:57pm | 383Read More...Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP)'s run so far as a public company hasn't been a successful one. After flirting with the $30 per share mark shortly after its IPO debut, Snap's stock recently hit a low of $11.28 but has since rebounded by around $2 per share. Technical Look In reality, Snap's...
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Snap Wins An Upgrade Following Lock-Up Expiration, Q2 Results
Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - 10:30am | 363Read More...Analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald turned bullish on Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) to reflect a "significant shift" in the stock's risk to reward profile after the lockup expiration and the company's second-quarter earnings report. The firm's Kip Paulson upgraded Snap's stock rating from Neutral to Overweight...
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Analyst: Every Single One Of Snap's Problems Are 'Self-Inflected'
Monday, August 14, 2017 - 12:54pm | 316Read More...Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP)'s woes within the social media space are due to management's inability to properly manage the company, at least according to James Cakmak, an analyst with Monness, Crespi, Hardt. Snap's most recent earnings report was frustrating because it showed management isn...
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Facebook's Mimicry Tactics Against Snapchat Appear To Be Working
Monday, August 7, 2017 - 10:09am | 795Read More...When an imitation is smarter than the innovation, what should one deduce from it? It could be due to the imitator bringing its own unique strength and appeal to the table or the copycat version proving to be an improvement over the original. Hard data proves Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) has found...
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S&P Snubs Snap Due To Its Dual Class Shares
Tuesday, August 1, 2017 - 1:17pm | 613Read More...Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP), which is trading well below its IPO price of $17, was in the news recently, as the lock-up period following its IPO expired Monday. The fact that early investors and insiders are now free to sell their shares, up to an upper ceiling of 400 million, triggered a slide in...
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Paul Meeks, Mark Mahaney Talk Snap's Lockup Expiration
Monday, July 31, 2017 - 9:58am | 414Read More...Shares of Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) were trading lower by around 3 percent early Monday morning ahead of the expiration of its share lockup period, which paves the way for hundreds of millions of shares to be unloaded in the open market for the first time ever. But before jumping to any conclusion as...
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Social Q2s: Facebook Rules, Twitter Drools, Snapchat Starting To Lose Its 'Cool'?
Friday, July 28, 2017 - 1:31pm | 685Read More...The social media landscape is shifting on a seemingly daily basis, and data from the second quarter shed some light on the most recent social media market dynamics. The biggest headline from Q2? Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) remains the gold standard. Facebook's Dominance Facebook shares jumped...
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Alexa Anytime: Amazon Next Venture Could Be A Messaging App
Monday, July 17, 2017 - 3:02pm | 545Read More...Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is emerging as a potent retail and tech conglomerate, given its diversification into several areas. The latest foray could be into messaging app, named Anytime, if one were to go by a report that appeared in AFTV News. The report said Amazon has begun collecting...
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Now Is The Time To Buy Snap, Drexel's Brian White Says
Monday, July 17, 2017 - 11:24am | 337Read More...Despite Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP)'s stock trading near its all-time low of $15.21 on Monday and down nearly 40 percent since its March IPO, now is a good time to buy shares, at least according to Drexel Hamilton's Brian White. The case to buy Snap's stock can be made from a historical...
















