Here are a few notable layoffs over the past week. Shopify (ticker: SHOP) and Rivian (ticker: RIVN), led the way. Click here to expand table: https://layoffs.fyi/
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Square, PayPal, and Apple Will Dominate A Digital Currency World
A digital currency world is coming. The 2022 Beijing Olympics will operate via a digital RMB for local attendees and may include digital cross-border payments as well. Our Federal Reserve is experimenting with digital currency. Both Fed Chair Powell and Treasury Secretary Yellen have talked down Bitcoin and said the U.S. will move slowly with … Continue reading Square, PayPal, and Apple Will Dominate A Digital Currency World
Walmart E-Commerce Continues To Scale. A Spin-Off Could Unlock Shareholder Value.
Walmart's (tkr: WMT), E-Commerce offerings continued to scale with revenues of $17.1 billion in Q4 and $60.3 billion for the year. E-Commerce accounted for approximately 11% of Walmart's total Net Sales for the year ended January 31st. WMT E-Commerce is larger than many e-commerce companies from a revenue standpoint including PayPal, Shopify, Square and Wayfair … Continue reading Walmart E-Commerce Continues To Scale. A Spin-Off Could Unlock Shareholder Value.
It’s Difficult For Legacy Payments Companies To Learn New Tricks
Legacy payments companies still have not fully embraced mobile applications. For example, Global Payments (tkr: GPN) chooses to white label certain mobile payment applications from Apriva rather than fully own its technology stack. All mobile applications are not created equal. The user experience differs dramatically across mobile apps and is primarily a function of the … Continue reading It’s Difficult For Legacy Payments Companies To Learn New Tricks
Protecting Customer Data from Employees
The risk of incidents where rogue employees steal customer data (see Shopify's incident here) will increase as more merchants move their operations online. It is important for organizations to not only protect against external cyberthreats, but to secure customer data and Enterprise data in general from rogue employees who may look to profit from it. … Continue reading Protecting Customer Data from Employees
How Much Future Earnings Have We Pulled Forward?
Companies have pulled forward a significant amount of future earnings. The question is: "How much"? Back in April Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella said the company experienced two years of digital transformation in two months. Amazon (AMZN), Shopify (SHOP), Square (SQ), PayPal (PYPL) and other e-commerce players have undoubtedly pulled earnings forward as COVID accelerated … Continue reading How Much Future Earnings Have We Pulled Forward?
Poor Reputations Travel Quickly
Amazon is developing a reputation for poor deal etiquette. Specifically (as reported by the WSJ), Amazon is using intelligence gathered by its venture arm during deal due diligence to develop competitive offerings. Microsoft, Google, Walmart, Alibaba, Shopify and others will likely capture a percentage of venture and M&A deal flow that otherwise would have gone … Continue reading Poor Reputations Travel Quickly
TINA, ZIRP, The Future & The Retail Investor
Investors have lost their minds when it comes to high-flying stocks such as Tesla (TSLA, up 830% over 13 months), Shopify (SHOP, up 210% over 4 months), DataDog (DDOG, up 220% since the March lows), and many other names where valuations are based on anything but the fundamentals. Why? There Is No Alternative (TINA): The … Continue reading TINA, ZIRP, The Future & The Retail Investor
“Verticalization” Is Where It’s At
Want to pick a fight with Microsoft, Amazon or Google? Don't take them head on. Build out a vertical offering that leverages bleeding edge technology combined with deep domain expertise. Control the entire user experience/customer journey. One could argue that Fanatics and Shopify (tkr: SHOP) have done just that in the world of E-commerce. SS&C … Continue reading “Verticalization” Is Where It’s At
Industries Best-Positioned To Go Mobile Post COVID
We list a handful of industries that may accelerate their mobile workforce and remote capability efforts in the COVID aftermath. ASSET MANAGEMENT: We believe the big opportunity here is for virtual meetings whether they be one-on-one meetings between investors and management teams or full analyst days. Basic video communication and live streaming services are offered … Continue reading Industries Best-Positioned To Go Mobile Post COVID
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