Thanks for checking out this week's In Focus, our look into a company, companies, or markets that made the Wall Street news cycle. This week we bring Google and FedEx in focus. Google Enters Gaming This week Google (GOOGL) announced Stadia, it's live streaming video game service. From the demo it looks great, but... I've said it in these In Focus writings before, I grew up a gamer, I still consider myself a gamer, just with too little time to play. I've seen many companies e

Thanks for checking out another In Focus, our brief look at companies, stocks, or markets that made the news over the past week. New week, same mess. Mother F*ucking Facebook On Thursday morning The NY Times released a well written story about Facebook, the issues that have plagued the company over the past year plus, and how the company responded to those issues. If you've been too busy to put all of the pieces together from the first fake news accusation to the Cambridge An

2018 hasn't been good to SnapChat. It's dealt with bad earning calls, analyst downgrades, unfavorable changes to the app, Kylie Jenner openly expressing her negative feelings about the changes to the app, and a WTF moment involving Rihanna and domestic violence. All of that has left SNAP's stock trading below $15 per share. It appears Wall Street and Main Street have cut it's loses with SnapChat and moved on to companies with better prospects. We wondered though, are investor

In 2017 we could not get away from the conversation around artificial intelligence. Is it good, is it bad, will it take our jobs, or will it help solve the world's problems? There are conflicting answers for all of the questions posed, but the reality of artificial intelligence and machine learning is that it is here. The technology that seemed far, far away is here. Our apps, software, smart phones, cameras, cars, and smart speakers, are no longer just reacting, they are lea

Facebook recently reported another good 3rd quarter, surpassing $10 billion in revenue in a quarter for the first time ever. The company is still growing its daily active users and monthly active users. On the company's earning call, Facebook execs gave investors an idea of where they believe their growth will come from and where they plan to take the company. As Facebook continues to climb in price we continue to look back at major price milestones and wonder, "why didn't we