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New Ecosystem With Synergy? How About Alibaba and Sina's Weibo
By Nick Chiu - May 13, 2013 | Tickers: EBAY, NTES, SINA, SOHU
Alibaba, known as China's eBay, is buying 18% stake in SINA's (NASDAQ: SINA) Weibo, known as China's Twitter, for $586 million. Alibaba, founded by Jack Ma, has acquired preferred and ordinary shares and has the option to increase its stake to 30%. The new contract will value SINA Weibo at around $3.3 billion, whereas Alibaba is currently valued at around $55 billion as estimated by analysts more »
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eBay’s Growth Story is Only Just Beginning
By Lennox Yieke - May 11, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, EBAY, GOOG
For the past two years, eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) has managed to meet or beat analysts’ earnings estimates in each and every quarter, in most cases coming ahead on the upper end of the estimates. This, coupled the 55% uptrend in its stock over the past 12 months, has stirred a lot of growth disposed write-ups on the online retail big wig. In my opinion, eBay’s growth story has been more »
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Where is eBay Looking for Growth?
By Shas Dey - May 10, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, EBAY, OSTK
In March 2013, eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) laid down aggressive targets for increasing its revenue. PayPal, which accounted for 40% of its 2012 revenues and reported 25% growth, will be the key factor in eBay’s future growth. But there's also another factor: The company aims to drive this growth by expanding globally and luring customers through its mobile technology.
The company announced plans to achieve $300 billion in e-commerce more »
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Are These Online Retailers Still Worth Investing in?
By Lior Cohen - May 9, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, EBAY, NFLX, XRT
Several leading online companies such as Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) haven’t performed well in the past several months as their shares only slightly rose. Share of these companies are not beating the market (up to date). But are these companies doing better than the online retail market? Are they still beating other E-commerce sites? Let’s take a close look on this issue.
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Amazon: Will Investors Receive a Flood of Returns, or Just a Stream?
By Adam Parker - May 9, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, EBAY, WMT
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is in the news of late, releasing its Q1 financial report and also indicating that it plans to develop its own TV streaming device. The proposed streaming device is one example of Amazon’s strategy of continued investment and expansion. The company’s stock price indicates that investors have faith in this strategy, but some of the numbers raise the question of whether the current level more »
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Government Regulation Protects Industry Incumbents
By Reuben Brewer - May 8, 2013 | Tickers: MO, AMZN, EBAY
Ebay (NASDAQ: EBAY) is trying to fight the Internet sales tax push. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has “given in.” Their different business models mean one will benefit from taxes and one will likely suffer.
Big Tobacco
While taxing sales over the Internet and the regulation of tobacco may seem like two very different issues, they aren't. In fact, they are more similar than dissimilar from a strategic standpoint.
It wasn more »
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The Banking Industry's Tech Nightmares Are Coming True
By Leo Sun - May 7, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, AAPL, EBAY, GOOG |
These days, big banks should be paying close attention to tech giants Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). These four companies all have digital payment solutions which help streamline online purchases. That hasn’t worried banks in the past, since these digital payment accounts are usually linked to credit card or bank accounts. That fact, however, is rapidly changing.
The rise of more »
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Groupon: Going, Going, Gone...
By Leo Sun - May 7, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, EBAY, GRPN
Shares of Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) recently plunged again, after analysts from Piper Jaffray announced that they were expecting the group discount site’s revenue outlook for the June quarter to miss estimates. To make matters worse, Groupon announced that Faisal Masud, the VP and GM of Groupon Goods, was leaving the company to possibly join office supply giant Staples.
Masud’s departure was disappointing for investors, since Groupon Goods, its more »
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This Company's Long-Term Prospects Are Still Intact
By Alexander Cho - May 6, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, EBAY, WMT
eBay’s (NASDAQ: EBAY) recent quarter was fairly strong, but the weak guidance is what caused the sell-off in the stock. The company trades at an expensive P/E multiple, and as such, it has to offer substantial growth otherwise investors will sell the stock on any signs of deterioration in growth/outlook.
The recent sell-off may have been warranted, but there's no reason to panic. Upon closer examination more »
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Amazon Is Worried-Should Investors Be As Well?
By Christopher Drose - May 6, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, BBY, EBAY
One of the best sources of information available to investors is a company's 10-K. Found on a company's Investor Relation page or on the SEC's EDGAR database, a 10-K is essentially a comprehensive report on the state of the company. Despite how easy it is to access this information, I believe that not enough investors read them to gain a better understanding of how a company operates more »
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Amazon Promises Longevity
By Lennox Yieke - May 2, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, AAPL, EBAY
When you talk about tech, you talk about high risk, high reward. Tech is what you use today and throw away tomorrow. Recall the pager? At one time, owning one was the in thing. Now, however, walk around with one and you will be hit with comments like, “Hey friend, the 90’s called, they want their pager back.”
The tech sector is by far the most volatile area to more »
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Why Digital Money's Future Will Involve Something Like Bitcoin
By Daniel Cawrey - May 2, 2013 | Tickers: EBAY, FB, V
We’ve been hearing a lot about Bitcoin lately. Yet, the problem with Bitcoin as an investment is that it is highly volatile. Just last week, it was trading at over $250 per coin, only to hit a low of $53 within days. That’s not an investment you would feel overly comfortable putting your money in, not to mention that it isn’t very easy to acquire Bitcoins compared more »
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Job Seekers Can Mean Profits for Shareholders
By Nauman Aly - May 1, 2013 | Tickers: EBAY, LNKD, MWW
In today's still struggling economy, there are many who are seeking employment after being laid off or downsized. One of the best places to do so is via career-oriented websites such as Monster Worldwide (NYSE: MWW). Although there are many potential opportunities listed on Monster.com, job seekers and shareholders alike may also strike gold in some other unlikely online domains, as well.
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The Top 4 Tech Stocks To Own In 2013
By Derrik Lattig - April 30, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, AAPL, BBY, CSCO, EBAY, INTL, IBM, MSFT, ORCL
It was one of the top-performing sectors in 2012, with many companies from the group hitting new 52-week highs. And with this bullish trend still in play, these stocks are in position for more of the same for the remainder of 2013.
I'm talking about big technology.
With investors searching for stability in 2012, big technology was especially hot last year. That pushed mega-cap technology companies such as International more »
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Taking the Ten Year Buffett Challenge
By Matthew Luke - April 30, 2013 | Tickers: CHD, DEO, EBAY, DANOY.PK
With Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting almost upon us, I am reminded of this investing gem Warren Buffett once said: “Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years.” That bit of advice is beautiful in its simplicity. Buffett is challenging us to think long-term with every investment decision. That is a challenge we should all accept; constructing ten more »
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Will Taxing Online Retailers Curb Their Rally?
By Lior Cohen - April 30, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, EBAY, XRT
The debate over the taxation of Internet transactions and its potential effect on sales at leading e-commerce companies continues to heat up. The U.S Senate recently advanced legislation that would allow states to tax sales that are conducted over the Internet for out-of-state companies.
Many investors and online buyers are concerned that this move will curb the sharp growth in online retail sales. I think the potential ramifications might more »
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The Online Sales Tax Battle
By Evan Buck - April 30, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, EBAY, M
The online auctioneer giant eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) has just joined the growing fight over a recently proposed online sales tax, coming down firmly against the proposal and trying to enlist the help of its users to fight against the bill. On the opposite side of the aisle are some traditional big-box retailers like Macy's (NYSE: M) and, ironically, fellow online retailer and eBay competitor Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN).
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Is eBay a Buy After Missing Revenue?
By Meena Krishnamsetty - April 29, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, AXP, EBAY, MA, OSTK
eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) actually beat consensus earnings estimates for the first quarter of 2013 by 1 cent, but underperformance on the top line caused the stock to fall on the day; it is currently down 6% since the beginning of April. Revenue actually grew 14% in the quarter versus a year earlier, with earnings up at a double-digit rate as well, though Q1 is generally soft for eBay and investors more »
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Online Ho, Fashionistas!
By AnnaLisa Kraft - April 29, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, EBAY, GPS
Fashionistas in-the-know don't know everything as they just gave the Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) the nod thrice for Zappos, Shopbop, and Amazon Fashion as three of the nine best online shopping sites for fashion saying Amazon Fashion was best for buying everything. They honored zappos.com, part of Amazon, as best for customer service and shopbop.com as best for high fashion. But all three are Amazon!
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Wounding Online Shopping for Taxes
By Nate Wooley - April 29, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, BBY, EBAY, TGT, WMT
Soooooo … state governments want a piece of that sweet, sweet online sales dollars.
That's not the only reason that Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY) introduced the Marketplace Fairness Act, of course. But I'd bet it's the largest one, no matter what Enzi says. It's not been fun being state and local government since the collapse. Tax revenues are down while committed expenditures weren't declining commensurately.
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