Weibo User Growth Accelerates, But Sina EPS Misses
at Investor's Business Daily - Wed May 21, 5:48PM CDT
User growth accelerated at the Chinese microblogging site Weibo, but majority stakeholder Sina missed Wall Street's profit forecast and both companies gave lighter-than-expected outlooks. Both stocks were down in after-hours trading Wednesday. Weibo...
Weibo Reports First Quarter 2014 Financial Results
GlobeNewswire - Wed May 21, 4:01PM CDT
Weibo Corporation (the "Company" or "Weibo"
Stocks Improve After Fed Minutes; Web.com Extends Gains
at Investor's Business Daily - Wed May 21, 2:09PM CDT
Stocks briefly touched new session highs after the Fed minutes revealed that members have yet to make a firm decision on raising interest rates. The Nasdaq and the S&P 500 were each up 0.6%. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones industrial average outperformed...
Twitter Needs SoundCloud More Than the Reverse
at The Street - Tue May 20, 10:14AM CDT
It makes perfect sense for Twitter to try to nab SoundCloud, but SoundCloud would be crazy to sell now.
Weibo Analysts Eye User Metrics, Alibaba Partnership
at Investor's Business Daily - Tue May 20, 10:01AM CDT
Newly public Weibo (WB) has already released most of its key financial results for Q1, so when the company officially reports Wednesday analysts will be eyeing user metrics. "Apart from the preliminary financial figures, I am more interested to find...
SINA Corp. Earnings: Will China Stunt Its Growth?
Dan Caplinger, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Mon May 19, 2:30PM CDT
On Wednesday, SINA will release its quarterly report, and investors have grown increasingly nervous about the Chinese Internet company's stock recently. Even as SINA successfully made an initial public offering of its popular microblogging site ...
Stock Price Movements, Upcoming Investors Conferences, and Financial Results - Analyst Notes on Bitauto, HomeAway, 58.com, Weibo and Conversant
PR Newswire - Mon May 19, 6:20AM CDT
Today, Analysts Review released its analysts' notes regarding Bitauto Holdings Limited (NYSE: BITA), HomeAway, Inc. (NASDAQ: AWAY), 58.com Inc. (NYSE: WUBA), Weibo Corporation (NASDAQ: WB) and Conversant, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNVR). Private wealth members receive these notes ahead of publication. To reserve complementary membership, limited openings are available at: http://www.analystsreview.com/2617-100free.
Alibaba and JD.com’s Competitive Nature Might Lead to Vipshop
Brian Nichols, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Sat May 17, 8:45AM CDT
Chinese e-commerce leaders JD.com and Alibaba have both filed for IPOs, creating two of the biggest IPOs this year, challenging Amazon as Wall Street's favorite online retailer. While the timing of their filings appears in unity, it more than...
If You Like Twitter at $35, You’ll Love These 2 Stocks
Brian Nichols, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Thu May 15, 12:05PM CDT
Twitter has bounced 15% off its $29.51 lows and appears to be headed back over $35 per share. The social media company has been criticized for its slowing user growth, as the need for better monetization tools have many wondering if it could ever...
Weibo Corporation to Report First Quarter 2014 Financial Results on May 21, 2014
GlobeNewswire - Wed May 14, 8:00AM CDT
Weibo Corporation (Nasdaq:WB), a leading social media platform for people to create, distribute and discover Chinese-language content, will announce its unaudited financial results for the first quarter 2014 after the close of market on 9:00pm, May 21, 2014. Following the announcement, Weibo's management team will host a conference call from 9p.m. -10p.m. Eastern Time on May 21, 2014 (or 9a.m. -10a.m. Beijing Time on May 22, 2014) to present an overview of the Company's financial performance and business operations.
'Fast Money' Recap: Look to Large-Caps for Growth
at The Street - Wed May 14, 4:00AM CDT
The trading panel sadi the U.S. economy needs to show growth in order for the industrial stocks to do well.
Tuesday's Top Upgrades (and Downgrades)
Rich Smith, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Tue May 13, 12:22PM CDT
This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense and which ones investors should act on. Today, Wall Street has China on its mind as analysts announce new buy ratings for Qihoo 360 and SINA Corp. ,...
Why Facebook Can't Go to China Alone
at The Street - Tue May 13, 11:07AM CDT
Facebook is already the world's largest social media company in the world, with over 1.2 billion monthly active users (MAUs), and growing. However, if the company is going to enter China and do so to get even bigger, it's probably going to need a...
Facebook on China Road
at The Street - Tue May 13, 10:45AM CDT
Reports of Facebook opening a sales office in Beijing is a sign the company has its sights set back in China after its Web site was banned in 2009.
Why Weibo Corp. Shares Will Soar to $24
Brian Pacampara, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Tue May 13, 9:30AM CDT
While Fools should generally take the opinion of Wall Street with a grain of salt, it's not a bad idea to take a closer look at particularly stock-shaking analyst upgrades and downgrades -- just in case their reasoning behind the call makes sense. ...
Alibaba expands beyond e-commerce
By KELVIN CHAN - AP - Fri May 09, 3:48AM CDT
HONG KONG (AP) — China's Alibaba Group, which is readying for a big U.S. initial public offering, is known as an e-commerce titan but it's been busily expanding into other rising industries. Here's a closer look at those businesses, which include cloud computing, mobile messaging, and investments in online video, social media as well as bricks and mortar retail and delivery networks.
Weak SouFun Outlook Echoes Through Chinese Techs
at Investor's Business Daily - Wed May 07, 3:19PM CDT
Chinese real estate website SouFun (SFUN) on Wednesday beat Wall Street's consensus views for Q1, but gave a weaker-than-expected outlook. SouFun expects full-year sales of $780 million to $796 million, or $788 million at the midpoint. Analysts had...
Alibaba Underwriters Go From Alpha to Beta in IPO
at The Street - Wed May 07, 12:16PM CDT
Alibaba, in its initial F-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, listed underwriters Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley in alphabetical order, with no single underwriter getting a so-called...
Glance: Alibaba's tentacles into Chinese retail
By The Associated Press - AP - Tue May 06, 7:49PM CDT
Alibaba Group, the Chinese e-commerce powerhouse that filed to offer its shares to U.S. investors Tuesday, has stretched its tentacles deep into China's other major Internet companies.
Weibo Is Not Twitter
Kyle Farrah, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Tue May 06, 1:45PM CDT
Two weeks ago, Chinese social media company Weibo made its debut on the Nasdaq. At $17 per share, the company was priced at the low end of estimates, and shares quickly skyrocketed to $24 before settling down. While Chinese social media...