Frightful Five

The Frightful Five: Amazon Slays, Apple Prays
The Frightful Five: Amazon Slays, Apple Prays
January 04, 2018  |  Retail

December was a good month for Amazon. Really, 2017 was a good year for the eCommerce giant, and we’ve got the numbers to prove it....

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The Frightful Five: Fake Apps And Hubcaps
The Frightful Five: Fake Apps And Hubcaps
December 14, 2017  |  Retail

When a company is as massive as any one of the Frightful Five, the bad news is it’s inevitable that some things will slip under...

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Frightful Five: The Apple Update That Pays
Frightful Five: The Apple Update That Pays
December 07, 2017  |  Retail

Amazon takes another swing at Etsy, Apple catches up in the proprietary Pay game and Facebook matriculates a new generation of social media users with...

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Frightful Five: Apple Speaker Delayed While Alexa, Google Assistant Charge Ahead
Frightful Five: Apple Speaker Delayed While Alexa, Google Assistant Charge Ahead
December 01, 2017  |  Retail

Amazon’s Alexa just keeps getting smarter. Soon she’ll be making herself at home at work with new business-oriented skills, and she’s about to start powering...

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Frightful Five: The Early Bird Gets The Cheap Bird
Frightful Five: The Early Bird Gets The Cheap Bird
November 17, 2017  |  Retail

Will consumers trust Facebook to verify their identity at real-world points of sale? Can apartment hunters trust its Marketplace more than Craigslist? Does Amazon Protect...

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The Frightful Five: Monster Valuation
The Frightful Five: Monster Valuation
November 03, 2017  |  Retail

The total combined value of the Frightful Five — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft — is indeed a frightful amount, most recently tallied at $3.3 trillion:...

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$3 Trillion: The Combined Value Of Tech’s Big Five
$3 Trillion: The Combined Value Of Tech’s Big Five
November 01, 2017  |  Merchant Innovation

It’s a little late for Halloween, but there is certainly something almost a bit scary in the combined valuations of tech’s top five players —...

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Frightful Five Add $181B To Wall Street
Frightful Five Add $181B To Wall Street
October 30, 2017  |  Stock Index

With technology earnings in full swing, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook all added billions of dollars in market value last week alone. According to a...

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Google Tracker: Doing Gooooooood
Google Tracker: Doing Gooooooood
August 22, 2017  |  Google

While America was busy watching the solar eclipse (hopefully with the appropriate protective eyewear), Google rolled out its new Android OS and created the world’s...

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