Google (GOOG) builds products and provides information services. The company offers Google Search, Knowledge Graph, Google Now, Product Listings Ad, and other solutions. It offers hardware products, including Chromebook, Chromecast, and Nexus devices. In addition, Google has a presence in many areas across the tech sector. In this article, I will discuss why the company will continue to create value for investors.
Numbers at A Glance The first quarter 2014 revenue for Google grew a healthy 19% on a year-on-year basis to $15.4 billion. Without currency fluctuations, the company�� revenue growth would have been 21% year-on-year. Its non-GAAP operating profit was $5 billion, and its non-GAAP margins were 32%. The company�� U.S. revenue grew 14% year-over-year to $6.7 billion. Its non-U.S. revenue excluding the U.K. was up 25% year-over-year to $7.2 billion. Google had a strong operating cash flow of $4.4 billion. A free cash flow of $2 billion for the first quarter provides the confidence that the company will be able to fund strategic growth opportunities in solutions like Android, Chrome, YouTube, just to mention a few.
Top 10 Construction Material Stocks To Watch Right Now: Activision Blizzard Inc(ATVI)
Activision Blizzard, Inc., through its subsidiaries, publishes online, personal computer (PC), console, and handheld games worldwide. The company develops and publishes PC-based computer games and maintains its proprietary online-game related service, Battle.net. It publishes interactive software products and peripherals. Its products cover various game categories, such as action/adventure, action sports, racing, role-playing, simulation, first-person action, music, and strategy. Activision?s products comprise Monsters vs. Aliens, Guitar Hero, X-Men Origins, PROTOTYPE, Transformers, Ice Age, Wolfenstein, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Bakugan Battle Brawlers, DJ Hero, Band Hero, Call of Duty, Tony Hawk, Guitar Hero, Three map packs for Call of Duty, True Crime, Spider-Man, Bakugan, Blur, and Singularity. Its customers include retail outlets and distributors, including mass-market retailers, consumer electronics stores, discount warehouses, and game specialty stores. Activision Blizzard, Inc. is based in Santa Monica, California. Activision Blizzard, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Vivendi.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Demitrios Kalogeropoulos]
The video game business has gotten more "hit" driven as sales have shrunk. Activision Blizzard's (NASDAQ: ATVI ) top four games, for example, accounted for 83% of its revenue last year -- and almost every penny of its operating income. Activision says that despite the 21% decline in sales for the industry as a whole in 2012, the top five titles actually eked out a 1% gain.
- [By Brian Pacampara]
What: Shares of video game publisher Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI ) surged 13% today after announcing an $8.2 billion deal to split from parent company Vivendi.�
Top 5 Tech Companies To Invest In Right Now: OncoMed Pharmaceuticals Inc (OMED)
OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OncoMed) incorporated on July 19, 2004, is a clinical development-stage biopharmaceutical company. The Company focuses on discovering and developing monoclonal antibody therapeutics targeting cancer stem cells (CSCs). It utilizes its technologies to identify, isolate and evaluate CSCs; identify and/or validate multiple potential targets and pathways critical to CSC self-renewal and differentiation; and develop targeted antibody and other protein-based therapeutics that are designed to modulate these CSC targets and inhibit the growth of CSCs. The Company's anti-cancer therapeutics include anti-DLL4 (demcizumab, OMP-21M18), Anti-DLL4/Anti-VEGF Bispecific, and Anti-Notch2/3 (OMP-59R5), Anti-Notch1 (OMP-52M51, Anti-Fzd7, Fzd8-Fc, RSPO-LGR.
Anti-DLL4 (demcizumab, OMP-21M18) is a humanized monoclonal antibody that inhibits Delta Like Ligand 4 (DLL4) in the Notch signaling pathway. The Company has completed a single-agent Phase Ia trial in advanced solid tumor patients. The Company focuses on conducting two Phase Ib combination trials of demcizumab. Anti-DLL4/anti-VEGF bispecific is a monoclonal antibody that targets and inhibits both DLL4 and vascular endothelial growth factor ( VEGF). VEGF is the target of Avastin. Anti-Notch2/3 (OMP-59R5) is a human monoclonal antibody that targets the Notch2 and Notch3 receptors.
Anti-Notch1 OMP-52M51 is a humanized monoclonal antibody targeted to the Notch1 receptor. Anti-Fzd7 OMP-18R5 is a human monoclonal antibody identified by screening against the Frizzled7 receptor (Fzd7) that binds a conserved epitope on five Frizzled receptors and inhibits Wnt signaling. OMP-18R5 is in a Phase I single-agent trial in advanced solid tumor patients. Fzd8-Fc OMP-54F28 is a fusion protein based on a truncated form of the Frizzled8 receptor ( Fzd8). RSPO-LGR ligands signal through the LGR receptor family.
The Company utilizes several robust technologies for the discovery and optimization of its antibody and protein-bas! ed therapeutics, including multiple proprietary technologies. Its antibody technologies include Mammalian Display Technology, Bispecific Antibody Technology, Hybridoma Technology. Mammalian Display Technology utilizes flow cytometry to isolate mammalian cells expressing antibodies on the cell surface with desired characteristics from large libraries of candidate antibodies. Bispecific Antibody Technology is used to generate its anti-DLL4/anti-VEGF antibody. Hybridoma Technology is used for isolating antibodies from mice, including multiplex single-cell screening techniques.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Maria Armental var popups = dojo.query(".socialByline .popC"); popups.forEach]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday imposed a partial clinical hold on a second cancer treatment trial by OncoMed Pharmaceuticals Inc.(OMED) The FDA’s action follows a similar hold last Friday on another treatment targeting cancer stem cells.
- [By Lauren Pollock]
Among the companies with shares expected to actively trade in Tuesday’s session are OncoMed Pharmaceuticals Inc.(OMED), Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc.(LXRX) and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc.(KKD)
Top 5 Tech Companies To Invest In Right Now: iSoftStone Holdings Limited(ISS)
iSoftStone Holdings Limited provides various information technology (IT) services and solutions in the Greater China and internationally. It offers an integrated suite of IT services and solutions, including consulting and solution services, IT services, and business process outsourcing (BPO) services. The company provides a range of consulting services for an overall engagement or discrete consulting services in conjunction with other services. It also develops industry-specific solutions, including treasury management, cash management, property and casualty insurance core, financial holding company business analysis, trust company core, and banking risk management solutions for banking, financial services, and insurance industries; supply chain management, enterprise information portals, business intelligence, business process integration, and management and e-commerce solutions for energy, transportation, and public sectors; mobile and embedded technology, next generati on platforms, business intelligence functionality, and network security products for the communications industry. In addition, the company offers various IT services consisting of application development and maintenance, research and development, and infrastructure and software services. Further, it provides a range of BPO services, such as securities trade processing services for the investment banking industry; digitization and archiving of policyholder information, as well as account processing and customer service for insurance industry; and cross-industry BPO services comprising finance and accounting, customer care, and human resources. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People?s Republic of China.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Seth Jayson]
iSoftStone Holdings (NYSE: ISS ) reported earnings on May 17. Here are the numbers you need to know.
The 10-second takeaway
For the quarter ended March 31 (Q1), iSoftStone Holdings beat expectations on revenues and beat expectations on earnings per share.
Top 5 Tech Companies To Invest In Right Now: NXP Semiconductors N.V.(NXPI)
NXP Semiconductors N.V., through its subsidiary, NXP B.V., provides mixed signal solutions and standard products worldwide. The company provides amplifiers, audio/radio products, bipolar transistors, data converters, diodes, identification and security products, interface and connectivity products, logic devices, media processors, microcontrollers, MOSFETs, power management integrated circuits (IC), radio frequency devices, sensors, thyristors, television and set-top-box front ends, and logic driver and controller ICs, as well as ESD, EMI, and signal conditioning products. Its products are used in automotive, identification, wireless infrastructure, lighting, mobile, consumer, computing, and industrial applications. NXP Semiconductors N.V. markets its products directly and through distribution to various original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, contract manufacturers, and distributors. The company was formerly known as KASLION Acquisition B.V and ch anged its name to NXP Semiconductors NV in May 2010. NXP Semiconductors N.V. was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Selena Maranjian]
Westfield Capital Management reduced its stake in lots of companies, including NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ: NXPI ) , which specializes in near-field communications (NFC) chips. Some of its chips aid digital video surveillance, while others can help cars talk to each other. NXP's NFC business has been growing briskly, and while there is competition from other firms, management sees that as a good sign and recently offered rosy projections.
- [By Rich Bieglmeier]
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The wirehouse research firm says they upped their view because of "Increased conviction in the company's ID business��oth core and emerging��ollowing discussions with many companies in the ID ecosystem. Our conversations with OEM partners and competitors underscored NXP's strong competitive position in e-Government, Banking and embedded secure element. Highlights include the company's broad portfolio of secure Microcontrollers (MCUs), R&D scale/leverage due to technology reuse across different markets and entrenched relationships with customers."
- [By Andy Obermueller]
Instead, the likely winner is a company most people have never heard of -- NXP Semiconductors (Nasdaq: NXPI). It makes the special chips that go in the phone that "talk" to cash registers. The technology is known as near-field communications (NFC), and NXP is the leader, with critical existing supplier relationships with all the major phone manufacturers, including Apple.
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