23 November 2024

Tag: Amazon

Nextech3D.AI (NTAR.C) announces huge services deal with Amazon (AMZN.Q)

If you have a technology company that involves AI and you want my money, you don’t get it just by saying “We have AI.” If you say, “We have a real AI company with actual tech that we developed, not just a ChatGPT API app,” okay, but still not good enough. If you have patents…

27 July 2023
Today’s Idea: AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) Explores the Metaverse

Computing and cloud infrastructure have become integral parts of major businesses in multiple fields. In general, cloud computing enables businesses to communicate and share more easily outside of traditional means. According to Fortune Business Insights, the global cloud computing market is expected to reach USD$791.48 billion by 2028, expanding at a CAGR of 17.9%. That…

2 December 2021
NEXE Innovations (NEXE.V) Achieves Major Milestone, Compostable Pods Now Available

I have a love-hate relationship with coffee. As a teen, I would drink Tim Horton’s French Vanilla coffee like it was water. However, the last French Vanilla I ordered had me throwing up in my high school’s bathroom for over an hour. Needless to say, I have avoided drinking coffee since then. That is until I…

4 November 2021
5 Reasons to buy Facebook (FB.Q) now

On a March 18, 2020 call to NYC media, Zuckerberg confirmed that Facebook is experiencing “big surges” in usage. Voice and video-calls on WhatsApp (owned by FB) and Facebook Messenger are 200% higher than normal.

20 March 2020
How to Invest in Social Distancing: Zoom Video (ZM.Q) Grubhub (GRUB.NYSE), Blue Apron (APRN.NYSE)

“I’m practicing as much social distancing as I possibly can” stated Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Director of Disease, “I’m working on getting the boss [Trump] to do this. I may not be successful, but we’re working on it.”

18 March 2020
NMC Health (NMHLY.OTC) gets sued – stock surges 90% anyway

Last week, NMC admitted that it identified an additional $2.7 billion in debt, rounding the total debt to around $5 billion. NMC staff were not paid last month.

17 March 2020
Flupocalypse 2020: Assuming you stay healthy, this is your ‘get rich’ moment

When the savings and loan crisis in the US hit in 1989, a lot of slow-moving investors lost their dough thinking the worst couldn’t possible happen. When the dotcom bubble burst in 2001, a lot of folks got torn up as stocks that had previously been 100-baggers went to zero. When the real estate market burned…

14 March 2020
Pepsi, Nestle and Amazon: asymmetric risk and monopoly control

Two hundred years after the Sherman Anti-trust Act brought about the fall of Rockefeller’s monopoly control, Bernie Saunders and Elizabeth Warren pushed for America to once again decide whether Pepsi (PEP.NASDAQ), Nestle (NESN.SWX) and Amazon (AMZN.NASDAQ) are agreeable corporate spouses or abusive partners slipping in after a trial separation, but in the age of post-modern…

11 January 2020
Icahn’s noxious no-brainers and America’s share buyback binge: Is value extraction a sham?

Icahn’s traveling roadshow is only marginally better than the criminal activities of Bain Capital. These vicious business vultures swoop in, gain control of the shares, get the company to load up on back-breaking debt to commence a share buyback scheme which they sell into and walk away from long before the company’s books explode all…

20 December 2019
Amazon.com (AMZN.NASDAQ): Corporate welfare over welfare capitalism

Jeff Bezos started Amazon in his garage with a couple hundred grand from his parents. This ex-hedge fund manager turned internet titan and evil king-making gnome has often been lauded for his customer-focused business strategies, aggressive business development and industry prowess, but how challenging is the journey when you’re a 1500lb gorilla on someone else’s…

5 December 2019