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Gene and Doug discuss: Where there’s massive reach, there’s massive ad opportunity. Amazon increases its ad spend to $31B — which is larger than the ad revenue of Snap, Pinterest and Microsoft combined. Facebook launches its news aggregation service to…

This was originally posted on Doug’s blog, Uncomfortable Profit. The most powerful question in investing is: What is something you do today that everyone is going to do in the future, and the market doesn’t know it? Thus begins the search…

Tech had a good night in the reporting category. The four primary tech companies all saw their shares increase by more than 10% in after-hours trading. While these companies were not taken out to the woodshed, we’re not out of…

Gene and Doug share their thoughts on: Last week’s earning reports from MSFT, AAPL and TSLA. The takeaway is that the bar remains high for Big Tech. A preview of upcoming earning calls from GOOGL (Feb. 1), FB (Feb. 2),…

Gene and Doug discuss the market selloff and Fed roulette; respond to GM’s announcement of the 2024 Chevy Silverado EV, as a contender to Ford’s F-150 Lightning and Tesla’s Cybertruck; review a deal made by Amazon and Stellantis for EV…

Over the last five years, we’ve made a habit of offering a few predictions for the year ahead. Here’s what we’re anticipating in 2022: 1. Apple and Facebook will duel for the spot as the top-performing FAANG stock in 2022,…

Below are the read-throughs for the upcoming Apple and Amazon September earnings based on results from Google, Microsoft, and Twitter, along with their key takeaways. Apple read As for the macro, Google did not caution as much about the soft…

June quarter earnings for big tech shared a common theme, debating the giants’ sustainable revenue growth rates. Facebook and Amazon shared the most on the topic of modeling growth rates exiting the pandemic, both pointing to the back half of…

Doug, Gene, and Andrew process an eventful earnings week and conclude that we’re still going to be dependent on Big Tech.

Gene’s joined by Mark Zgutowicz from Rosenblatt Securities to discuss the top three video streaming services and what they need to do to stay relevant. 

Gene and Andrew discusses what Amazon’s planned acquisition of MGM means for the company, along with the broader streaming race among big tech.

This is the second in a multi-part series rethinking ecommerce. The series is based on three premises: Ecommerce is just commerce at home. Today, almost all retail transactions involve some digital elements. Shopping now happens on a spectrum between the…