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Twitter Q3 14A – Good company, bad stock.

          Twitter is not the next Facebook. Twitter and Facebook are often compared directly against one another but in reality they are very different animals. Facebook...

Yahoo! Q3 14A – Game of numbers

          Yahoo! must focus on registered users to have any chance of growth. Yahoo! reported reasonable Q3 14A results but still the commentary and promises are...

Google Q3 14A – Law of large numbers

          Slowing growth does not make the shares unattractive. Google reported slightly disappointing results as growth from its core advertising business in fixed Internet slowed a...

Google – Chasing ghosts

          Amazon is not the problem. Its Apple. Amazon is what keeps Eric Schmidt up at night but in reality what he should be worrying about...

Yahoo! – Fire in the pocket

          At $10bn, even a financial return looks to be a challenge. Yahoo! has made a huge return from its investment in Alibaba but its fiduciary...

Google – The shine of Chrome

          Usage of Chrome is likely to continue growing. The latest data from Net Market Share (see here) shows that Chrome is steadily gaining share when...

Yahoo! – Wrong prescription

          AOL is not the answer. A recent open letter from activist shareholder Starboard has correctly diagnosed all the issues at Yahoo! but its prescription will...

Google – Method in the madness

          iOS still makes more money for Google than Android does. Android may dominate the statistics when it comes to unit shipments and number of users,...

Amazon – A very good turn

          Amazon has done Sony and Microsoft a big favour by acquiring Twitch. Amazon has reached an agreement to purchase Twitch for $972m in cash. Twitch...

Facebook & friends – Internal affairs

          Facebook’s messaging mess highlights a problem for everyone. The number of attempts Facebook is making to crack the millennial messaging market is growing fast and...