Alibaba Group $BABA Q2 2017 Earnings LIVE Webcast Aug 17 Replay

Alibaba and Tencent Place Big Bets to Justify Valuations

Video above published Aug 14, 2017: Alibaba and Tencent can count themselves among the world’s costliest technology companies after a stellar run. To justify those lofty valuations, China’s two largest corporations have to deliver on some of the riskiest bets they’ve placed in years. Bloomberg's Selina Wang has more on "Bloomberg Technology."

Alibaba Group Holding Limited (domain: alibabagroup.com)

Stock exchange: symbol  |  NYSE: BABA

Alibaba Group release of unaudited financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2017: before U.S. market open on Thursday, August 17, 2017.

Conference call to discuss the financial results at 7:30 a.m. EDT (U.S. Eastern Time) (7:30 p.m. Hong Kong Time) August 17:

LIVE Webcast Replay of the earnings conference call. The replay of the conference call will also be available for one week via dial-in number: +61 2 8199 0299; conference ID: 61383477.  Press Release (pdf) excerpt below, and Presentation (pdf) embed below:

Excerpt from Alibaba Group Press Release

• Investor Relations: http://www.alibabagroup.com/en/ir/home

• Earnings Releases: http://www.alibabagroup.com/en/ir/earnings. 

See also:

• Veteran Stock Picker Buys Gold, Cuts Alibaba Stake | Barrons.com

• JD.Com: Margins Scream 'BABA' (NASDAQ:JD) | SeekingAlpha.com: "... JD investors may be wise to follow Warren Buffett, who sold his Walmart (WMT) shares citing a "tough, tough competitive force" that the rest of us simply calls Amazon (AMZN). The Amazon of China is, of course, BABA ..."

• Tencent Dominates in China. The Next Challenge Is Rest of the World | Bloomberg.com: "The WeChat app has almost a billion users, and many of them use it all day." And Tencent to boost AI after profit jumps on mobile games, WeChat | Reuters.com.

About the Alibaba Group (source: Alibaba Group)

"Alibaba Group’s mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere. The company aims to build the future infrastructure of commerce. It envisions that its customers will meet, work and live at Alibaba, and that it will be a company that lasts at least 102 years."

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese e-commerce company that provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales services via web portals.

• Founded: April 4, 1999, Hangzhou, China
• Principal shareholder: Jack Ma (7.8%)
• CEO: Daniel Zhang (May 10, 2015–)
• Subsidiaries: Alibaba.com, Ant Financial, AutoNavi, Alibaba Cloud, MORE
• Founders: Jack Ma, Peng Lei
• Alibaba is the world's sixth-largest internet company by revenue according to wikipedia.org. Other Chinese companies in the top ten: JD.com (3), Tencent (5), and Baidu (8).

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Q2 2017 LIVE Webcasts August 8: GoDaddy $GDDY & Tucows $TCX

Leading domain name registrars and tech companies, GoDaddy $GDDY, and Tucows $TCX, have each scheduled their respective Q2 2017 financial results LIVE webcasts for Tuesday, August 8, 2017, at 5pm EDT:

GoDaddy Inc.,  (NYSE: GDDY), the world's largest domain name registrar (domain: GoDaddy.com) Q2 2017 Earnings LIVE Webcast 5pm EDT on Aug 8, 2017.

Q2 2017 results (pdf): "Q2 Revenue up 22% on Growing Customers and ARPU plus HEG Acquisition; Operating Cash Flow up 23% and uFCF up 61%." Presentation below:

GoDaddy released Q2 financial results prior to the webcast at GoDaddy Investor Relations. You can also dial into the call at (877) 648-7976 in the United States or (617) 826-1698 from international locations, with passcode 52323850. The live webcast replay of the call will also be available on GoDaddy's investor relations website at https://investors.godaddy.net.

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Tucows Inc. NASDAQ: TCX / TSX: TC (domain: tucows.com), reports its second quarter fiscal 2017 financial results via news release on Tuesday, August 8, 2017 at approximately 4:05 p.m. (ET). Tucows management will host a conference call on the same day at 5:00 p.m. (ET) to discuss the results and the outlook for the company. For the latest quarterly financial results and conference call webcast link: http://www.tucows.com/investors/financials.

Q2 2017 results--"Solid Year-Over-Year Growth Across All Key Financial Metrics and Record EPS"--Q2 2017 News Release (pdf) and Financial Statement (pdf).

Participants can also join the call by dialing 1-888-231-8191 or 647-427-7450. For those unable to participate in the conference call at the scheduled time, it will be archived for replay both by telephone and via tucows.com/investors beginning approximately one hour following completion of the call. To access the archived conference call by telephone, dial 1-855-859-2056 or 416-849-0833 and enter the pass code 59387346 followed by the pound key. The telephone replay will be available until Tuesday, August 15, 2017 at midnight. To access the archived conference call as an MP3 via the Internet, go to http://www.tucows.com/investors.

About Tucows: Tucows is a provider of network access, domain names and other Internet services. Ting (ting.com) delivers mobile phone service and fixed Internet access. OpenSRS (opensrs.com) and Enom (enom.com) manage a combined 29 million domain names and millions of value-added services through a global reseller network of over 40,000 web hosts and ISPs. Hover (hover.com) provides individuals and small businesses ways to manage their domain names and email addresses. More information may be found at Tucows.com.

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Q2 2017 Webcasts Jul 27: Twitter $TWTR Verisign $VRSN Amazon $AMZN

Q2 2017 Earnings Webcasts Thursday, July 27, 2017:

• Twitter NYSE: TWTR 8:00am EDT
• Verisign NASDAQ: VRSN 4:30pm EDT 
• Amazon NASDAQ: AMZN 5:30pm EDT

Twitter Inc.
Stock exchange: symbol | NYSE: TWTR
Principal domain: twitter.com

• LIVE Q2 Earnings Webcast July 27, 8am EDT

Twitter Q2 2017 results: Q2 total revenue was $574M; GAAP net loss $116M with -20% margin; adj. EBITDA was $178M, with adj. EBITDA margin of 31%; DAU grew 12% Y/Y, marking the third consecutive quarter of double-digit growth.Specifically, in Q2, we achieved the following results:
•  Q2 revenue totaled $574 million, a decrease of 5% year-over-year.

• Advertising revenue totaled $489 million, a decrease of 8% year-over-year.
• Data licensing and other revenue totaled $85 million, an increase of 26% year-over-year.
• US revenue totaled $335 million, a decrease of 7% year-over-year.
• International revenue totaled $239 million, a decrease of 1% year-over-year.
• Total ad engagements increased 95% year-over-year.
• Cost per engagement (CPE) decreased 53% year-over-year.

• Twitter Second Quarter 2017 Earnings Conference Call

• Q2' 2017 Shareholder Letter

• Earnings Press Release

• Slide Presentation

• Selected Company Metrics and Financials

Tweet your question to @TwitterIR using #TWTR. Investor Relations:  investor.twitterinc.com for more information. Twitter has used, and intends to continue to use, its Investor Relations website and the Twitter accounts of @jack, @twitter and @TwitterIR as means of disclosing material non-public information and for complying with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD."--Twitter Inc.Tweets by TwitterIR

Verisign, Inc.
Stock exchange: symbol | NASDAQ:VRSN
Principal domain: verisign.com

• LIVE Q2 2017 Earnings Webcast: July 27, 4:30 pm EDT.

The earnings call will also be accessible via direct dial at (888) 676-VRSN (U.S.) or (913) 312-6675 (international), conference ID: Verisign. An audio archive of the call will be available at https://investor.verisign.com/events.cfm.

Verisign FORM 10-Q excerpt:"On January 18, 2017, the Company received a Civil Investigative Demand (“CID”) from the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) requesting certain material related to the Company becoming the registry operator for the . web  gTLD.  We are cooperating with the DOJ. At this time, the Company is unable to estimate a range of potential financial and non-financial outcomes in connection with this matter. Verisign is also involved in various investigations, claims and lawsuits arising in the normal conduct of its business, none of which, in its opinion, will have a material adverse effect on its financial condition, results of operations, or cash flows. The Company cannot assure you that it will prevail in any litigation. Regardless of the outcome, any litigation may require the Company to incur significant litigation expense and may result in significant diversion of management attention."

The Q2 2017 earnings news release and slides embedded below, via the company's investor relations website:

Verisign provides top-level domain (TLD) registry operator services (including .COM and .NET), as well as providing internet security services, and serving as the internet's root zone maintainer and operator of two (a. and j.) of the world's 13 internet root servers for the internet's Domain Name System (DNS). Verisign's security services include Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection and Managed DNS.

New gTLD .WEB

Last year, Verisign revealed it had provided funding to Nu Dot Co LLC, winner of the ICANN "last resort auction" for new gTLD (new generic top-level domain) .WEB, and had an agreement for transfer of Nu Dot Co's rights re: .WEB to Verisign.

New gTLD .WEB Auction Results | ICANN.org: An auction took place on 27 July 2016 to remove string contention among the .WEB .WEBS applicants. Nu Dot Co LLC was designated the winner of .WEB at the close of the auction. "Contention set on hold pending accountability mechanism."

More information re: new gTLD .WEB on DomainMondo.com:

• New gTLD .WEB: ICANN Hands Over 7000 Pages to DOJ Antitrust Division

• New gTLD dot WEB 'Last Resort' ICANN Auction: and the Winner Is?

• Afilias Challenges New gTLD WEB Auction Results in Letter to ICANN

• Ruby Glen Appeals .WEB ICANN Case to Ninth Circuit

See also: Application ID: 1-1296-36138 and Ruby Glen, LLC v. ICANN | ICANN.org. and Active ICANN CEP 2-Aug-2016 Donuts Inc. and Ruby Glen, LLC re: .WEB

Amazon’s 2017 Prime Day Was Its Best Sales Day Ever

Video above published Jul 12, 2017: Amazon’s 2017 Prime Day broke a new record with a 60% increase in sales compared to last year.

Amazon.com, Inc.

Stock exchange: symbol | NASDAQ: AMZN

Principal domain: Amazon.com

• LIVE Q2 2017 Earnings Webcast: July 27, 5:30 pm EDT.

The event will be webcast live, and the audio and associated slides will be available for at least three months thereafter at www.amazon.com/ir.

Amazon.com Inc. Q2 2017 press release embed below--second quarter sales up 25% to $38.0 Billion:

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Facebook $FB Q2 2017 Earnings LIVE Webcast July 26 5pm EDT

Facebook Could Triple Its Revenue in 5 Years

Video above published Jun 16, 2017, by WSJ.com: Instagram and Messenger are key to the social network's next growth spurt.

Facebook NASDAQ: FB Q2 2017 Earnings LIVE Webcast July 26 (replay)

$FB Q2 2017 results (excerpt)

• Q2 2017 Earnings Release (pdf)

• Slides (pdf)

• Facebook (FB) Q2 2017 Earnings Call Transcript | SeekingAlpha.com

Facebook is an American for-profit corporation and online social media and social networking service based in Menlo Park, California.

Principal domain: Facebook.com

Founder(s): Mark Zuckerberg; Eduardo Saverin; Andrew McCollum; Dustin Moskovitz; Chris Hughes
Founded: February 4, 2004.
Key people: Mark Zuckerberg; (Chairman and CEO); Sheryl Sandberg; (COO)
Users: 2 billion monthly active users (June 2017)
Headquarters: Menlo Park, California, U.S
Employees: 18,770 (March 31, 2017)
Subsidiaries: Instagram; Messenger; WhatsApp; Oculus VR

See also:

• Facebook's Response To A Significant, Emerging Threat Houseparty | SeekingAlpha.com 

• Facebook Earnings Preview: Bullish On Instagram | SeekingAlpha.com

The younger you are the more likely you are to stay on top of the news cycle throughout the day by checking Twitter, Facebook and news websites vs. legacy media such as radio, print, and TV:

Source: Statista

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Alphabet $GOOG $GOOGL Q2 2017 Results LIVE Video July 24 5pm EDT

Q2 2017 LIVE Earnings Webcast Replay:

Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2017 Results - Investor Relations - Alphabet: "With revenues of $26 billion, up 21% versus the second quarter of 2016 and 23% on a constant currency basis, we're delivering strong growth with great underlying momentum, while continuing to make focused investments in new revenue streams," said Ruth Porat, CFO of Alphabet.

Alphabet (GOOG / GOOGL) Q2 2017 Earnings Call Transcript | SeekingAlpha.com

The accrued $2.7B EU antitrust fine shaved over $2.7B off operating income, nearly halved net income to $3.5B, and reduced EPS from $8.90 to the $5.01 that still beat consensus according to SeekingAlpha.com.


Excerpt from $GOOGL $GOOG Q2 2017 Results

Alphabet Inc. NASDAQ: GOOG / GOOGL Q2 2017 Earnings LIVE Webcast July 24 5pm EDT

A replay of the webcast will also be available following the conference call. Visit the Investor Relations website at abc.xyz/investor on July 24, 2017 to view the earnings release prior to the conference call.

Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate created in a corporate restructuring on October 2, 2015. It is the parent company of Google [principal domain: google.com] and several former Google subsidiaries. Most of Alphabet's revenue and all of Alphabet's net income comes from Google as of Q1 2017.

• CEO: Larry Page (Oct 2, 2015–)
• Revenue: 90.27 billion USD (2016)
• Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
• Net income: 19.47 billion USD (2016)
• Subsidiaries: Google, CapitalG, Nest Labs, Calico, X, MORE
• Alphabet Inc. is the world's second-largest internet company by revenue. wikipedia.org

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Q2 2017 Earnings Webcasts July 19: $TMUS 4:30pm, $QCOM 4:45pm EDT

Q2 2017 earnings webcasts Wednesday, July 19, 2017:

• T-Mobile (domain: t-mobile.com) $TMUS 4:30pm EDT LIVE Webcast

• Qualcomm (domain: qualcomm.com) $QCOM 4:45pm EDT LIVE Webcast

T-Mobile

T-Mobile Q2 2017 Earnings Call: Behind-the-Scenes Livestream

Starts: July 19, 2017 WED 4:30 PM EDT
T-Mobile US - Q2 2017:

• Webcast

• Earnings Release (embed above)

• Investor Factbook

• Financial Results, Supplementary Data, and Non-GAAP Reconciliations - PDF

• Financial Results, Supplementary Data, and Non-GAAP Reconciliations - Excel

• T-Mobile US (TMUS) Q2 2017 Earnings Call Transcript | SeekingAlpha.com

T-Mobile usually has the best, and most entertaining, quarterly earnings sessions, John Legere presiding--"Similar to past quarters, prepared remarks will be kept to a minimum in order to provide more time for free-flowing dialogue with analysts, investors, media and consumers.

"Participants will have multiple ways to submit questions including via phone, Twitter (tweet using $TMUS) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/JohnJLegere via post comment). T-Mobile will also take questions via text and respond to some of them on the call (send a text message to 313131, enter the keyword TMUS followed by a space).

"The call will be live-streamed via the Company's Investor Relations website at http://investor.t-mobile.com. T-Mobile US, Inc. will issue a press release and Investor Factbook reporting its results at approximately 4:05 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, July 19, 2017. The press release and Investor Factbook will be posted at the same time on the Investor Relations website at http://investor.t-mobile.com.

Q2 2017 Earnings Call, Livestream and Webcast Access Information
Access via Phone (audio only):
Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Time: 4:30 p.m. (EDT)
Call-in Numbers: 800-432-9830
International: 719-234-7318
Participant Passcode: 5188137

Submit Questions via Text, Twitter or Facebook:
Text: Send a text message to 313131, enter the keyword TMUS followed by a space
Twitter: Send a tweet to @TMobileIR or @JohnLegere using $TMUS
Facebook: Post a comment to John Legere’s Facebook Earnings post

Access via Webcast:
The earnings call will be broadcast live via the Company's Investor Relations website at http://investor.t-mobile.com. A replay of the earnings call will be available for two weeks starting shortly after the call concludes and can be accessed by dialing 888-203-1112 (toll free) or 719-457-0820 (international). The passcode required to listen to the replay is 5188137.

Access via Social Media:
The @TMobileIR Twitter account will live-tweet the earnings call:

Tweets by TMobileIR

Qualcomm

Investor Relations: https://www.qualcomm.com/info/investor-relations

Events & Presentations - Qualcomm Incorporated:
Jul 19, 2017 4:45pm EDT
Qualcomm Q3 FY17 Earnings Conference Call - Listen to webcast

QUALCOMM's (QCOM) Q3 FY17 Earnings Call Transcript | SeekingAlpha.com.

Qualcomm’s technologies powered the smartphone revolution and connected billions of people. QCOM pioneered 3G and 4G - and now is a leader in 5G and the new era of intelligent, connected devices. QCOM products are revolutionizing industries, including automotive, computing, IoT, healthcare and data center, and are allowing millions of devices to connect with each other in ways never before imagined. Qualcomm Incorporated includes its licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of its patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, all of QCOM engineering, research and development functions, and all of its products and services businesses, including, our QCT semiconductor business (source: Qualcomm).

See also: Is The U.S. FTC Chairman Taking Qualcomm's Side? (And Other Matters) - Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) | SeekingAlpha.com

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Netflix $NFLX Q2 2017 Earnings LIVE Video July 17 6pm EDT & Replay

Netflix $NFLX Q2 2017 Earnings LIVE Video & Replay

Netflix Second Quarter 2017 Earnings video via Netflix Investor Relations | YouTube.com,
LIVE Jul 17, 2017, 3pm PDT / 6pm EDT.

Netflix reports Q2 revenue of $2.79B, vs. $2.76B expected, and total streaming subscriptions grew 5.2M to 104M, vs. 3.2M expected; stock up in after-hours trading. 

• Q2 17 Letter to shareholders 1.5 MB (pdf)

• Q2 17 Financials Statements (July 17, 2017) 76.3 KB

• Content Accounting Overview 2.5 MB

NASDAQ: NFLX: Netflix shares are up over 63% over the past year through last Friday:

Principal domain: Netflix.com

Netflix, Inc. is the world's ninth-largest internet company by revenue. Founded on August 29, 1997, Scotts Valley, CA, by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph, Netflix is an entertainment company that specializes in and provides streaming media or video-on-demand (VOD) online, as well as still providing its legacy business of DVDs by mail.

When Netflix reports its second quarter earnings, shareholders will closely look at how many subscribers the world’s largest video streaming service was able to add in the U.S. and internationally. According to Netflix, the biggest driver of subscriber additions is the company’s exclusive original content. And, at least according to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the company has been doing a great job with its own TV shows. Netflix has established itself as a household name for quality content:

 source: Statista
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Tech Review: How Google Cloud Plans to Overtake Amazon's AWS

Tech Review (TR 2017-07-15)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech news:

Features • 1) How Google Cloud Plans to Overtake Amazon's AWS: TensorFlow, 2) FCC Net Neutrality | Nomination Hearing, 3) Mars Rover 2020 and Europa Clipper, 4) Q2 2017 earnings T-Mobile $TMUS & Qualcomm $QCOM, 5) BlackHat and DefCon, 6) Rural Broadband Internet, 7) ICYMI Tech News.

1) How Google Cloud Plans to Overcome Amazon's AWS Lead in Cloud Computing: TensorFlow

TensorFlow: Machine Learning for Everyone

"TensorFlow [domain: tensorflow.org] is becoming the clear leader among programmers building new things with machine learning. “We have significant usage today, and it’s accelerating,” says Jeff Dean, who led TensorFlow’s design and heads Google’s core artificial-­intelligence research group. Once you’ve built something with TensorFlow, you can run it anywhere—but it’s especially easy to transfer it to Google’s cloud platform." --MIT TechnologyReview.com (link added).

Other Tech News:

2)  FCC Net Neutrality | Nomination Hearing FCC - U.S. Senate Committee On Commerce, Science, & Transportation: "Ajit Varadaraj Pai, of Kansas, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission (Reappointment) - Jessica Rosenworcel, of Connecticut, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission (Reappointment) - Brendan Carr, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission," Wednesday, July 19, 2017 10:00 a.m. EDT. See also Poll of Republican voters shows that a majority of President Trump's supporters are in favor of net neutrality rules and also oppose the pending AT&T-Time Warner merger | TheHill.com.

3) U.S. House of Representatives Space Subcommittee Hearing- Planetary Flagship Missions: Mars Rover 2020 and Europa Clipper | Committee on Science, Space, and Technology: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 - 10:00am EDT.

4) Q2 2017 earnings webcasts this coming week: 

• T-Mobile TMUS July 19 4:30pm EDT; 

• Qualcomm QCOM July 19 4:45pm EDT.

5)  BlackHat and DefCon: BlackHat.com: Black Hat USA 2017 July 22-27, 2017--Late registration pricing discounts on Briefings & Trainings end at 23:59 PT on July 21. DEF CON® 25 Hacking Conference: DEF CON 25 July 27-30, 2017, Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas.

6) Rural Broadband Internet Public Hearing RE: The State of Infrastructure in Rural America | US House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 @ 10:00 am EDT.

7) ICYMI Tech News Quick Takes:

• French government to appeal pro-Google court tax ruling | Reuters.com

• DHS delays rule allowing entrepreneurs into the United States until March 14, 2018 | TheHill.com

• VISA takes its War on Cash to US Retailers | Wolf Street.com

• Kaspersky Lab says it has become pawn in U.S.-Russia geopolitical game | Reuters.com

• Tencent Is Bringing Its Most Successful Mobile Game to the U.S. and Europe | Bloomberg.com

• 60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed | hbr.org

• Uber and Yandex to combine ride-hailing in Russia and beyond | Reuters.com

• UK-based luxury phone-maker Vertu to be liquidated after plan to save it fails; 200 will be laid off | BBC.com

• Windows Phone dies today | TheVerge.com

• Apple sets up China data center to meet new cyber-security rules | Reuters.com

• FanDuel and DraftKings drop their merger, after FTC voted to challenge it last month | Recode.net

• Cryptocurrencies Collapsed | WolfStreet.com: "Ethereum down 52%, Ripple down 57%, EON down 70% in eight days."

• Faraday Future moves electric SUV production site, mothballs Las Vegas plant | Reuters.com

• Blue Apron: Future Bleak At Best - Blue Apron Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:APRN) | SeekingAlpha.com

• Two-factor authentication is a mess, as companies offer various implementations, with SMS and email account recovery methods vulnerable to determined hackers | TheVerge.com

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