Archive For

July 2016

Alphabet & Amazon – Two for two

Reply to this post           Alphabet and Amazon both have a good night.  Good Q2 16A results from Amazon and Google...

Facebook & Twitter – Black and white

Reply to this post           Facebook and Twitter going in opposite directions.  Facebook and Twitter report very different results, highlighting the...

Apple Q3 16A – High yield

Reply to this post           Apple as a bond is yielding 9.8%.  Apple reported better than expected Q3 16A results as...

Yahoo – Fire sale

Reply to this post           Long-term investors pay heavily in lost opportunity.   Only in the context of Yahoo’s awful execution...

Cyanogen – Share of zero

Reply to this post           The best option is to sell itself to China.  There are further signs that Cyanogen is...

Wearables – Wrong direction

Reply to this post           Precipitous decline underscores the problem.  It looks like demand for smartwatches has precipitously declined in Q2...

Huawei vs Samsung – Rivers of blood Pt III

Reply to this post           Huawei flat-line passes advantage to Samsung.  The first indications for the smartphone market in Q2 16A...

Microsoft FQ4 16A – Finnish with a flourish

Reply to this post           Good results restore optimism in strategy  Microsoft reported good FQ4 16A results supported by signs of...

Yahoo Q2 16A – Slough of despond

Reply to this post           Another quarter marred by more of same.  Yahoo reported another dismal quarter where it badly underperformed...

Softbank & ARM – We’ll be back!

Reply to this post           I think ARM could return to the market in 5 to 10 years.  SoftBank and ARM...