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How The Biggest Tech IPOs Of The Decade Have Fared
Wednesday, March 1, 2017 - 4:20pm | 472Read More...Technology IPOs are a source of great profit or frustration for investors. This has held true over the years and is expected to hold true for Snap, Inc. as the company will become public this week. As noted by Statista, Snap's early stage investors will earn themselves a very large profit since...
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Munster, Calacanis Talk The Bull-Bear Case On Snap
Wednesday, March 1, 2017 - 2:47pm | 387Read More...Gene Munster, Wall Street analyst turned venture capitalist, and Jason Calacanis, Inside.com CEO and founder, were guests on CNBC and offered two sides of the trade ahead of Snap's initial public offering. Munster: Expensive Valuation Munster started off with the bear side of the trade and...
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Can Snap's Top-Line Follow In Facebook's Footsteps?
Wednesday, March 1, 2017 - 11:07am | 296Read More...Snap, Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, is in the very final stages of gearing up for its initial public offering. Snap has a lot riding on its shoulders as its IPO will likely be compared to some of its social media peers. Moreover, the IPO comes at a time when Facebook Inc's (NASDAQ: FB)...
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Here's What The Pros Are Saying About Snap
Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - 5:02pm | 299Read More...Snap Inc., the parent company of the social media app Snapchat, will become a publicly traded company this week. Josh Elman, a partner at Greylock Partners and expert on Snap's business, was a guest on CNBC on Tuesday. He noted kids are engaging with parents and even grandparents on the...
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Why Snap Will Be The Most Controversial Internet IPO This Year
Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - 10:25am | 491Read More...In a note released Monday, MKM Partners explained why Snapchat's parent Snap Inc.'s IPO will be the most high-profiled and controversial internet IPO this year. The firm's view comes amid the impending IPOs of some interesting privately-held companies such as Uber, Ant Financial and AirBnB in the...
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Snap Inc's Revenue Model, Explained
Monday, February 27, 2017 - 6:06pm | 300Read More...Snap, Inc., the parent company of the social media app Snapchat, is being heavily scrutinized by many analysts and investors who are quick to point out the company's continued losses and declining user base. But flying behind the radar is the fact that Snap's revenue is growing and expected...
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Comparing Snap To Facebook And Twitter Pre-IPO; Snapchat Smartphone Coming?
Monday, February 27, 2017 - 3:56pm | 403Read More...Snapchat parent-company Snap Inc. is preparing to launch one of the most anticipated IPOs the market has seen in years. Despite the considerable excitement surrounding the offering, significant uncertainty persists around a company that lost $900 million in the last two years and indicated that it...
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Analyst Says Social Media Space Is Saturated, Sees Snapchat As 'Total Junk'
Monday, February 27, 2017 - 11:41am | 376Read More...Snap Inc is expected to announce its IPO price as soon as Wednesday, but Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry believes investors would be wise to steer clear of the social media stock. In his first-quarter social media report, Chowdhry explained how the social media market has become...
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Here's Every Feature Facebook's Platforms Have Aped From Snapchat
Friday, February 24, 2017 - 12:24pm | 792Read More...Snapchat may not be as big as its bigger brethren Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB). Compared to Facebook's annual revenues of $27.64 billion in 2016, Snapchat earned only $404.48 million. But at least it has the technological superiority in making the latter want to evolve copycat versions of each of...
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Gadfly's Shira Ovide Warns Snap Investors: Buying The IPO Is 'An Act Of Lunacy'
Thursday, February 23, 2017 - 2:44pm | 471Read More...Snap, the parent company of the social media platform Snpachat, will begin listing its shares on the New York Stock Exchange next week. To some investors buying into the IPO gives investors access to a rapidly growing social media empire that is beloved by the coveted millennial demographic....
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Pro: Snap's Numbers 'Don't Look Pretty'
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 - 1:00pm | 267Read More...Aspect Ventures' co-founder Theresia Gouw was a guest on CNBC's "Squawk Box" segment on Wednesday to offer her expert take on Snap's upcoming IPO. Snap, the parent company of the Snapchat social media app, has one key metric working in its favor, namely the 2.5 billion daily "Snaps." According to...
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Potential Cuts To Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Benefits Put These Top Lines At Risk
Friday, February 17, 2017 - 3:42pm | 859Read More...The lawmakers are embarked on the mission of doing a makeover of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which was formerly called as the Food Stamp Program. With health data revealing that mortality rates are higher among those participating in SNAP, the end use of SNAP benefits...
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We Now Have Full Details Of Snap's IPO
Thursday, February 16, 2017 - 10:30am | 339Read More...Snap, the parent company of the social media platform Snapchat, announced further details to its upcoming initial public offering Thursday. Snap made its IPO official in February and comes at a bit of an inconvenient time. Shares of its social media peer Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) are trading within...
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Is AR All It's Cracked Up To Be?
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 - 3:56pm | 941Read More...Fantasy embedded in a real world setting: This best summarizes Augmented Reality, or AR in short. Recall the craze when Nintendo Co., Ltd (ADR) (OTC: NTDOY) launched its Pokémon Go, developed by Niantic. The whole world went gaga over it when it was launched in July 2016, giving the...
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Spotify's Complicated Road Toward An IPO
Wednesday, February 8, 2017 - 1:09pm | 420Read More...Snapchat's parent company Snap Inc. has officially filed for an initial public offering, but the list of multi-billion -dollar companies that choose to remain private is still notable. One of the companies expected to file for an IPO in 2017, the streaming music provider Spotify, is reportedly...















