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Roku Inc (NASDAQ: ROKU) shares rocketed more than 60 percent in their inaugural trading day, inciting some traders to wonder if this would herald the return of the high flying IPO market. Shares closed at $23.50 after the IPO was priced at $14. Other market commentators were left stupefied by what...

Joining the list of companies that have IPO-ed this year is the TV streaming company Roku Inc (NASDAQ: ROKU). Roku's Grand Premiere For the uninitiated, Roku offered 9 million shares of its Class A common stock in a public offering, while selling shareholders offered an additional 6.67...

Internet stocks have made double-digit gains in 2017, propelling the tech sector to record highs. While some bears look for signs of a looming bubble — with the memory of the painful sting of the 2000 dot.com bubble in mind — others search the blue skies for signs of catalysts that...

Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) is looking to avoid the same mistakes YouTube made by placing advertisements over questionable content; the social media platform wants to give customers more control over ad placement. Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s YouTube came under fire earlier in the...

To say that Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) has experienced a tumultuous ride in its post-IPO life would be an understatement. In what was arguably the most anticipated IPO of the year, shares have failed to deliver, down 40 percent since going public in March. Snapchat’s woes are largely based on...

Benzinga has featured a look at many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bearish calls included an e-commerce juggernaut and some short seller favorites. Bullish calls featured tech giants and a Big Three automaker. Late summer and early fall can be a worrying stretch for investors, as...

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) may have reached peak popularity as teens and young adults get their social media fix elsewhere, eMarketer reported. Instead, the demographic group are spending more time on Facebook's Instagram platform and rival Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP). In fact, Snap's social media...

Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP)'s run so far as a public company hasn't been a successful one. After flirting with the $30 per share mark shortly after its IPO debut, Snap's stock recently hit a low of $11.28 but has since rebounded by around $2 per share. Technical Look In reality, Snap's...

When an imitation is smarter than the innovation, what should one deduce from it? It could be due to the imitator bringing its own unique strength and appeal to the table or the copycat version proving to be an improvement over the original. Hard data proves Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) has found...

Shares of Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) briefly traded in positive territory on Monday as investors reacted, clearly nervous over the stock's lockup expiration. But investors who are looking at the expiration as a negative event may be wrong in their thinking, at least according to Canaccord Genuity's...

Shares of Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) were trading lower by around 3 percent early Monday morning ahead of the expiration of its share lockup period, which paves the way for hundreds of millions of shares to be unloaded in the open market for the first time ever. But before jumping to any conclusion as...

With Instagram’s current growth trajectory not slowing down anytime soon, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB)'s $1 billion acquisition of the photo-sharing app five years ago may go down as one of the smartest investments of all time. With over 700 million users and 400 million people serving as...

Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP)'s stock traded below the $17 mark for the first time ever Monday. On Tuesday, it traded below the $16 mark in reaction to a harsh downgrade by analysts at Morgan Stanley. Snap's downgrade by a firm that helped it go public is not only embarrassing, it can also be seen as an "...

Shares of Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) traded below its initial public offering price of $17 for the first time ever and closed at $16.95 Monday. But shares were trading lower by another 3 percent early Tuesday morning, in part due to a downgrade by analysts at Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley bankers...