US Airways and American Airlines completed a merger in December of 2013 to form the American Airlines Group (AAL), becoming the world’s largest airline in the process. The deal, worth more than $11 Billion ($8 billion less than the WhatsApp acquisition, for those keeping track) joined the two fleets, unions, contracts, and staffs to form one mega-airline.
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Tesla Uncoils For A Momentous Ride
Tesla (TSLA) is a revolutionary electric car company based out of Palo Alto, California. The company was founded, and is now overseen, by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. Tesla’s stock has grown by 600% over the past year, but has also been quite volatile. Interestingly, Tesla’s product portfolio contains only a single car: the Model S.
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GoPro To IPO
The fastest growing digital imaging company in America, GoPro, Inc., recently announced that it is undergoing the process of planning an initial public offering of stock. The company, which began as an experiment for Founder and CEO Nicholas Woodman, who wanted to capture his surfing adventures and share them with his friends, has quickly developed into a household name in digital media.
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A Match Made In... Film?
As the Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) approaches its record high of $81.59 per share, the company has many investors wondering how much higher the stock will go. In order to understand why the company’s stock price continues to surge, investors need to look at both the original cornerstones of Disney, its animated films, and its theme parks.
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Pulling The Plug On Monopolies
In a deal that could shake up the Cable Television business, powerhouse provider Comcast is attempting to acquire the smaller, but still formidable Time Warner Cable in a $45 Billion stock deal. The deal would add around 11 million subscribers to Comcast’s current 22 million, covering about a third of households in the United States.
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The Snowden Effect
Let’s face it, technology isn’t going anywhere; hence, neither is Cisco (CSCO). In fact, the IT sector is expected to grow in key verticals such as cloud computing, thanks to the advent of big data, and by the potential of the Internet of Everything. As technology becomes more pervasive, and companies such as Google (GOOG) and Facebook (FB) collect increasing amounts of user information, the demand to organize and prioritize this big data has resulted in an unprecedented demand for analytic equipment.
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