Vic Gundotra, head of social at Google, said Google+ now has 540 million 30-day monthly active users, up from 390 million in May.
Google+ is also uploading 1.5 billion photos per week and that number is increasing at "an amazing rate," Gundotra also said during an event in San Francisco.
Google+, the company's social network, has struggled to keep up with the growth of Facebook since the Internet search leader launched the service in 2011.
Facebook has more than 1 billion monthly active users, while Twitter has just over 230 million.
Gundotra unveiled several new Google+ features Tuesday that are focused on sharing photos on the social network, searching them and enhancing them.
Top 5 Small Cap Companies To Invest In Right Now: Amazon.com Inc.(AMZN)
Amazon.com, Inc. operates as an online retailer in North America and internationally. It operates retail Web sites, including amazon.com and amazon.ca. The company serves consumers through its retail Web sites and focuses on selection, price, and convenience. It also offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products on its Web sites, and their own branded Web sites. In addition, the company serves developer customers through Amazon Web Services, which provides access to technology infrastructure that developers can use to enable virtually various type of business. Further, it manufactures and sells the Kindle e-reader. Additionally, the company provides fulfillment; miscellaneous marketing and promotional agreements, such as online advertising; and co-branded credit cards. Amazon.com, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Andrew Tonner]
Shares of online streaming maven Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX ) �were up significantly today (about 7% as of the end of the trading day) as yesterday after the bell the company reported both�better-than-expected�earnings�as well as a planned price increase that should help Netflix fight to maintain its lead against Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN ) .
- [By Paul Ausick]
Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY), for example, is taking on online behemoth Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) by offering many items at prices very close to Amazon�� and has concocted a price-matching guarantee as well. To combat such forays, Amazon has been offering Black Friday deals all week and is teasing its Cyber Monday offerings as yet another full week of special deals.
- [By Dan Caplinger]
Stocks gave up substantial ground Friday, as a host of negative earnings announcements combined with the threat of the dispute between Russia and Ukraine blossoming into outright war to send major stock market benchmarks sharply lower today. Plug Power (NASDAQ: PLUG ) , Pandora Media (NYSE: P ) , and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN ) all did their part in leading the stock market down, closing the week with an overall loss despite having had gains earlier in the week.
Best Internet Companies To Buy For 2014: Symantec Corporation(SYMC)
Symantec Corporation provides security, storage, and systems management solutions internationally. The company?s Consumer segment delivers Internet security, PC tune-up, and online backup solutions and services to individual users and home offices. Its Security and Compliance segment provides solutions for endpoint security and management, compliance, messaging management, data loss prevention, encryption, and authentication services to large, medium, and small-sized businesses, as well as offers solutions through its software-as-a-service (SaaS) security offerings. This segment?s products enable customers to secure, provision, and remotely manage their laptops, PCs, mobile devices, and servers. The company?s Storage and Server Management segment provides storage and server management, backup, archiving, and data protection solutions across heterogeneous storage and server platforms, as well as solutions delivered through its SaaS offerings to large, medium, and small-s ized businesses. Symantec?s Services segment offers implementation services and solutions, including consulting, business critical services, education, and managed security services. The company also provides various enterprise support offerings, such as annual maintenance support contracts, including content, upgrades, and technical support. It sells its products through its eCommerce platform, as well as through distributors, direct marketers, Internet-based resellers, system builders, ISPs, and retail locations worldwide. Symantec markets and sells its products through distributors, retailers, direct marketers, Internet-based resellers, original equipment manufacturers, system builders, and Internet service providers; and its e-commerce channels, as well as direct sales force, value-added and large account resellers, and system integrators. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Michael Flannelly]
Nomura Securities analysts initiated coverage on Symantec Corporation (SYMC) early on Wednesday, giving the stock a “Neutral” rating because its upside is already priced into its current valuation.
The analysts see shares of SYMC reaching $29, which suggests a 14.6% upside to the stock’s Tuesday closing price of $25.30.
Nomura Securities analyst Frederick Grieb commented, “In the early innings of a classic turnaround story, but upside largely priced In. We initiate coverage of Symantec (SYMC) with a Neutral rating and a 12-month target price of $29. Symantec is a leading vender in the security and storage markets, but has struggled to grow market share post its 2005 acquisition of VERITAS. The company has faced competitive pressures in its core markets, with ‘freemium’ antivirus software pressuring the consumer business, while the storage business has been challenged by enterprise migration to Windows and Linux from Solaris and UNIX. Despite these headwinds, we are launching coverage of Symantec with a Neutral rating, as we believe management will be able to improve the business by increasing margins (perhaps to +33%) and longer-term organic growth through a combination of simplifying management structures and a better strategy to incentivize the sales force. However, given the stock�� 33% increase YTD, due in part to multiple expansion (P/E up 18% YTD), we believe much of the upside from this turnaround is already baked in. FY14E EPS starts at $1.2; FY15E EPS starts at $2.18.”
Symantec Corp shares were inactive during pre-market trading on Wednesday. The stock is up 34.43% year-to-date.
Best Internet Companies To Buy For 2014: Yahoo! Inc.(YHOO)
Yahoo! Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a digital media company that delivers personalized digital content and experiences through various devices worldwide. It offers online properties and services to users; and a range of marketing services to businesses. The company?s communications and communities offerings include Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, Flickr, and Connected TV, which provide a range of communication and social services to users and small businesses enabling users to organize into groups and share knowledge, common interests, and photos. Its search products comprise Yahoo! Search and Yahoo! Local, available free to users to navigate the Internet and discover content. The company?s marketplaces offerings and services include Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! Real Estate, Yahoo! Autos, and Yahoo! Small Business, which allow users to research specific topics, products, services, or areas of interest by review ing and exchanging information, obtaining contact details, or considering offers from providers of goods, services, or parties with similar interests. Its media offerings comprise Yahoo! Homepage, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Finance, My Yahoo!, Yahoo! Toolbar, Yahoo! Entertainment & Lifestyles, Yahoo! Contributor Network, and Yahoo! Pulse, which are designed to engage users with online content and services on the Web. The company also offers marketing services, such as display and search advertising, listing-based services, and commerce-based transactions to advertisers. In addition, it provides software and platform offerings for third-party developers, advertisers, and publishers, such as Yahoo! Developer Network, Yahoo! Open Strategy, Yahoo! Application Platform, Yahoo! Updates, Yahoo! Query Language, and Yahoo! Search BOSS. The company has strategic alliances with Nokia and ABC News, Inc. Yahoo! Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Californi a.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Lauren Pollock]
Yahoo Inc.(YHOO) Chief Executive Marissa Mayer turned in another quarter without meaningful growth, despite bringing on a host of new companies through acquisitions. The Internet company reported third-quarter revenue that matched Wall Street’s expectations, with adjusted profit a penny higher than expected. Shares edged up 1.7% to $33.95 premarket.
- [By Brian Stoffel]
5. Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO ) , P/E of 7.7
The Yahoo! homepage is the fourth-most visited website in both America and the world. Over the past three years, earnings have increased 135%. With numbers like these, you'd expect Yahoo! to be trading for higher, but there are two big concerns that have historically held the stock down. - [By Arrow Analysis]
According to the search giant, app installed across the AdMob network will be able to target consumers based on the data already on file, like what apps a user typically uses, how often they are used and purchases made, if any. This latest move comes in response to similar techniques employed by industry rivals like Facebook (FB), Yahoo (YHOO) and Twitter (TWTR). Even according to the Chief Marketing Officer of Marin Software, Matt Ackley, ��e��e seeing an escalating war between Google and Facebook on mobile��
Best Internet Companies To Buy For 2014: eBay Inc.(EBAY)
eBay Inc. provides online platforms, services, and tools to help individuals and merchants in online and mobile commerce and payments in the United States and internationally. Its Marketplaces segment operates ecommerce platform eBay.com; vertical shopping sites, such as StubHub, Fashion, Motors, and Half.com; and classifieds Websites, including Den Bl�Avis, BilBasen, Gumtree, Kijiji, LoQUo, Marktplaats.nl, mobile.de, Alamaula, Rent.com, eBay Anuncios, eBay Kleinanzeigen, and eBay Annunci, as well as provides advertising services. The company?s Payments segment offers payment and settlement services for consumers and merchants on and off eBay Websites and other merchant Websites. This segment operates PayPal, which enables individuals and businesses to send and receive payments online and through mobile devices; Bill Me Later that enables the United States merchants to offer, the United States consumers to obtain, credit at the point of sale for ecommerce and mobile tra nsactions; Zong, which allows users with mobile phones to purchase digital goods and have the transactions charged to their phone bill; and BillSAFE that enables customers pay for purchases upon receipt of an invoice. Its GSI segment offers an ecommerce services suite for enterprise clients that operate in general merchandise categories, including apparel, sporting goods, toys and baby, health and beauty, and home; and marketing services comprising full-service digital agency, enterprise email marketing, mobile advertising, affiliate marketing, advertisement retargeting, and in-depth analytics services. The company also offers X.commerce platform that provides software developers access to the company?s applications programming interfaces to develop functionality for various merchants; and Magento Connect, which allows developers to market and sell add-on functionality and solutions to merchants that use a Magento storefront. eBay Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquarter ed in San Jose, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By WALLSTCHEATSHEET]
EBay provides online platforms to consumers and businesses who are engaging in Internet commerce at an increasing rate, worldwide. The stock has been a strong performer in recent years and is now trading at critical price levels. Earnings and revenue figures have grown at a reasonable pace which has kept investors satisfied. Relative to its peers and sector, eBay has trailed in year-to-date performance. WAIT AND SEE what eBay does this coming quarter.
- [By Tom Taulli]
After all, ANGI is facing intense of competition from names like RedBeacon, Google (GOOG), Yelp (YELP) and HomeAdvisor. Even eBay (EBAY) has recently entered the U.S. market. Plus, all these services are free to consumers, which puts ANGI in a tough spot. To deal with this, Angie’s List has been investing�aggressively in marketing, especially TV commercials. But that can be expensive.
- [By WALLSTCHEATSHEET]
Ebay is an established company that has made a name for itself pioneering internet commerce. The company recently�signed a multiyear accord with Fifth & Pacific Cos. Inc.�The stock has moved higher in recent years but is now pulling back as it digests gains from a recent run. Over the last four quarters, earnings have been mixed while revenues have been rising which has left investors to expect more from the company. Relative to its peers and sector, eBay has been a weak year-to-date performer. WAIT AND SEE what eBay does this coming quarter.
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