55 Facts You May Not Know About Google $GOOG $GOOGL (infographic)

$GOOG shares have increased in value 1436.65%, Aug 20, 2004 - Feb 23, 2016 (see above). The first funding for Google (principal domain: google.com) was in August 1998, $100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, before Google was even incorporated. 3 other angel investors also invested in 1998: Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, Stanford University computer science professor David Cheriton, and entrepreneur Ram Shriram. Early in 1999, founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page decided they wanted to sell Google to Excite (excite.com). They went to Excite CEO George Bell and offered to sell it to him for $1 million but he rejected the offer. Vinod Khosla, one of Excite's venture capitalists, talked Page and Brin down to $750,000, but Bell still rejected it. A $25 million round of funding was announced on June 7, 1999, major investors included venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital. Google's initial public offering (IPO) was August 19, 2004, at which time Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt agreed to work together at Google for 20 years, until the year 2024. At the IPO, the company offered 19,605,052 shares at a price of $85 per share. The sale of $1.67 billion in IPO shares gave Google a total market capitalization of more than $23 billion. Today Google (through its holding company, Alphabet Inc.) is approaching a total market cap of $600 billion. 

Infographic: 55 Facts You May Not Know About Google ($GOOG, $GOOGL):

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Twitter $TWTR in Play: Is the Price Too High? (video)

The Companies That Might Buy Twitter:

Shares of Twitter surged by the most in more than two years following reports that the social media company may soon receive a takeover offer. Bloomberg Gadfly's Brooke Sutherland discusses the details on "Bloomberg ‹GO›" Sep 23, 2016. (Sutherland is a Bloomberg Gadfly columnist. The opinions expressed are her own.)

More Twitter Suitors Emerge Despite Premium | CNBC:

Neil Doshi, Mizuho Securities Internet Analyst, discusses the rise in Twitter stocks as rumors swirl around a potential sale of the social media company. Video above published Sep 27, 2016.

Chart below: Twitter Still Isn't Flying High | Statista:


Salesforce, Google, and Disney, among others, are now reportedly interested in Twitter, the social networking service.  In the short-term, this has been good for Twitter's share price, rising 19% Thursday to Friday last week, and over 28% since August 29th (see chart below). But Twitter is still not flying high. The current price is below the IPO closing day price ($44.90), November 7, 2013, and considerably below the high of $73.31 in December 2013. Since then, the company's market cap has been slashed by billions of dollars. With its current valuation, quarterly "numbers" consistently in the red, and user growth stalling, the potential buyers need to come with deep pockets and solid plans. See also on SeekingAlpha.com: Google Is Going To Buy Twitter and Why Twitter Is Unlikely To Accept A Buyout Offer (reportedly insiders may want as much as $30 billion, considerably higher than the current market capitalization of $20 billion).

Twitter Inc. (domain: twitter.com) NYSE: TWTR 30-day chart below:

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Google vs Apple, Round 2, Valuation, $GOOG vs $AAPL Market Cap (video)

Google vs Apple, Round 2 | Authers' Note:

FT.com's John Authers - "Apple’s ‘most valuable’ crown at risk"
Read more at on.ft.com/1X6Ud9K (Published May 12, 2016)

Apple shares $AAPL DOWN over 28% in 1 year (source: google.com)

Alphabet shares $GOOG UP over 31% in 1 year (source: google.com)

Picking apart Buffett's Apple stake | Lex:

The FT.com’s Robert Armstrong questions the significance of Berkshire Hathaway's stake in Apple and how it fits with the company's strategy of investing in value stocks. Published on May 22, 2016

See also:

• DomainMondo.com: Apple $AAPL Q1 2016 Results, Used iPhones Resistance in India (video)
• DomainMondo.com: Buffett Invests $1B in $AAPL, Apple Invests $1B in China's Didi Chuxing
• DomainMondo.com: Apple's First Revenue Decline in 13 Years (video) & Mobile Ate The World
• DomainMondo.com: Alphabet $GOOG Q1 2016 Earnings, April 21 Webcast REPLAY
• Google Is Fairly Valued At These Levels And I Would Only Add Below $652 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) | SeekingAlpha.com

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5 Big Losers: Apple, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Amazon (video)

5 Big Losers on the Stock Market: Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google, Apple (source: Bloomberg--see video below)

Five Tech Stocks Leading the Year's Biggest Losses - "Bloomberg's Oliver Renick and Michael Regan report on share declines in the tech industry. They speak on "Bloomberg Markets" Friday, August 21, 2015. Total losses now exceed over $100 billion in market capitalization.

Apple $AAPL, Facebook $FB, Google $GOOG $GOOGL, Netflix $NFLX, Amazon $AMZN (source: google.com)

Above: The 5 Big Losers: Apple $AAPL, Facebook $FB, Google $GOOG $GOOGL, Netflix $NFLX, Amazon $AMZN, 1 month stock charts (source: google.com, August 21, 2015).

See also on Domain Mondo:

• Apple, iPhone Vulnerability, Product Concentration, $AAPL Unsustainability (August 4, 2015)
• Apple Watch, Apple Music, Apple #FAILS? $AAPL, Google Search Trends (July 5, 2015)
• The Problem With Apple $AAPL (June 8, 2015)

• Google Alphabet A Signal To Sell OR Short $GOOG and $GOOGL shares? (August 13, 2015)

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That Astounding Slide in Amazon Q2 2015 Results, Stock Explodes

Amazon Year over Year 20% Net Sales Increase (would have been 27% but for strong US dollar)

Amazon.com Investor Relations: Press Release: Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales up 20% to $23.18 Billion "Net sales increased 20% to $23.18 billion in the second quarter, compared with $19.34 billion in second quarter 2014. Excluding the $1.39 billion unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 27% compared to second quarter 2014."

In addition to the above, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's Cloud services, had Q2 revenue of $1.82B, +16% Q/Q and +81% Y/Y. Annual growth accelerated sharply from Q1's 49%. AWS segment operating. profit rose over 5x Y/Y to $391M. Amazon shares surged  in after hours trading, easily taking out their old highs, and causing Amazon's market capitalization to surpass Wal-Mart's (see below).

Amazon shares surged  in after hours trading (follow Q2 2015 earnings call) chart sourceL google.com

Stock exchange: Stock symbol NASDAQ:AMZN

Principal domain name: amazon.com

• Webcast (REPLAY 07/23/15, 5 PM ET, Q2 2015 Amazon.com Inc Earnings Conference Call )
• Q2 2015 Amazon.com, Inc. Earnings Conference Call Slides (pdf)
• SEC filings

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The Apple MISS Is BIG: iPhone Shipments, Revenue Forecast (video)

UPDATE (July 23, 2015): US Senator Al Franken has written the US Attorney General Loretta Lynch and FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez asking for a Justice Department and FTC investigation into whether Apple is engaging in anticompetitive behavior in the music streaming market--letter here (pdf). 



Apple’s iPhone shipments for the fiscal third quarter and the company’s revenue forecast for the current period missed analysts’ projections, raising questions over whether demand for the device has peaked. Technalysis Research Founder and Chief Analyst Bob O'Donnell, Creative Strategies Principal Analyst Ben Bajarin and Bloomberg's Mike Regan speak on "Bloomberg West" in the video above, on July 21, 2015.

Not a good day (July 21, 2015) for Apple--both Apple iPhone shipments and the revenue forecast for 3Q 2015 missed estimates and the stock took a tumble in after-hours trading, which if it holds when regular trading resumes Tuesday, July 22nd, could result in the second largest one-day loss of market capitalization in the world's largest company, Apple, as measured by total stock market capitalization. NASDAQ:AAPL.

While Apple sold 47.5 million iPhones, a 35 percent gain, in the period that ended in June, the analysts had anticipated 48.8 million shipments, and Apple is expected to exceed estimates. To add insult to injury, Apple forecast revenue of $49 billion to $51 billion in its fiscal fourth quarter, which ends in September, short of the average estimate for $51.1 billion, according to Bloomberg: "Any indication of slowing demand for iPhones could spark concern that Apple is going to have a hard time selling more smartphones in the final months of the year."

Check the stock: NASDAQ:AAPL
Principal domain name: apple.com
Apple Investor Relations: investor.apple.com

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• Apple (AAPL) Timothy D. Cook on Q3 2015 Results - Earnings Call Transcript | Seeking Alpha (July 21, 2015)
• Domain Mondo: Apple Watch, Apple Music, Apple #FAILS? $AAPL, Google Search Trends  (July 6, 2015)
• Domain Mondo: The Problem With Apple $AAPL (June 8, 2015)

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