Israeli content recommendation platform Taboola is in the final stages of raising $100 million in a Series E funding round, Geektime has learned. This figure is higher than anticipated, and will lay the groundwork for a likely IPO in the next 12-18 months. According to Geektime’s sources, $75 million of the sum will be invested in the company and another…
As we all get ready to see in 2015, a moment of truth arrives. We are bold enough to make predictions for an entire year at the start of each calendar turn, so in the interests of transparency let’s take a look and see how good our forecasts we made at the start of 2014…
Market participation has been thinned by the approaching New Year. This is making for some choppy price action. The result is weaker equity markets and a softer US dollar. The greenback is lower against the euro and sterling. Sterling held just above $1.55 in Asia before recovering a bit in Europe. The euro slipped to…
Greece may be on the verge of a Grexit, crude may be taking out all key technical support levels, and US stocks will still close higher. But let the USDJPY slide and watch as the levitation ends with a bang. And tumble overnight is precisely what the USDJPY did, pushing not only the Nikkei lower…
CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE Seven may be considered a lucky number, when one looks back over the past 7 years, its not been so lucky for domestic equity funds as they have experienced outflows to the tune of $643 Billion Dollars. Where is all the money going? It appears to be headed towards ETF’s,…
OVERNIGHT MARKETS AND NEWS March E-mini S&Ps (ESH15 -0.28%) this morning are down -0.25% and European stocks are down -0.84% led by a slide in global energy producers as crude oil tumbled to a 5-1/2 year low. The yield on the Greek 10-year bond rose to a 1-1/4 year high of 9.558% as a Greek election next month rekindles European…
Asian stocks fell amid shrinking volumes, with the regional index heading for its first annual drop since 2011. The yuan slipped to the weakest level since June, while oil climbed from a five-year low. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index lost 0.4 percent at 11:32 a.m. in Tokyo, extending this year’s retreat to 2.5 percent. Trading on…
We know that the American economy has done very well this year. Under the guidance of the US central bank, the economy has picked up speed once again and this has not gone unnoticed. The value of the US dollar has increased significantly over the past few months and analysts say this is only the…
Photo Credit: Victorgrigas / Creative Commons Talk about technology startups in India and the de facto prefix you’ll hear is “mobile-first.” From e-commerce to data analytics, every company is raving about going mobile, being mobile only, and so on. Yet the truth is mobile internet in India is far, far slower than in developed countries….
