Here's Why Demandware's Stock Is Sinking
Demandware, the Burlington, Mass.-based e-commerce software maker, may have beaten expectations for its Q3 earnings on Monday and added a number of well-known retailers as customers. But investors on...
View ArticleBoston Download: City Sports Is Closing All Stores, Women Top the Ballot, A...
City Sports Is Closing All Its Stores City Sports is closing all 26 of its locations, following its purchase at a bankruptcy auction. Hilco Merchant Resources bought the Boston-based athletic apparel,...
View ArticleHubSpot's Q3 Earnings Beat Estimates, Again
The drama surrounding HubSpot's ouster of CMO Mike Volpe has died down significantly since the marketing software company released its Q2 earnings, and it will likely stay that way at least until tech...
View ArticleFacebook and Amazon Surge Into the $300B Club
It’s neck and neck for who’s ahead, but recent stock price jumps for both Facebook (FB) and Amazon (AMZN) have the companies valued at above $300 billion each. Both are seeing record highs for their...
View ArticleWayfair Smashes Expectations in Q3
If you believe the haters, Boston-based home goods e-commerce site Wayfair is overvalued. Way overvalued, according to (short-seller) Citron Research, which in August argued for a sub-$10 per share...
View ArticleWhy Wayfair's Stock Price Is Sinking
At Boston-based home goods e-tailer Wayfair (W), the biggest source of revenue, its direct-retail business, is expected to grow 70 percent in the current quarter compared to a year earlier. That...
View ArticleRapid7 Beats Expectations in Q3
It didn’t take long for Rapid7 (RPD) to have its first brush with the whims of the stock market. In mid-October, three months after the Boston-based cybersecurity firm’s IPO, Rapid7’s stock price took...
View ArticleEMC Meets Earnings Expectations, Falls Short on Revenue in Q4
Maybe EMC’s latest earnings are moot, given that Dell has a deal to absorb the company in the biggest tech takeover of all time. Or maybe not, given all the uncertainties around whether such an...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Stock Jumps After Earnings Beat
In February, Satya Nadella will mark his second anniversary as CEO of Microsoft. But before celebrating he’s got some business to get out of the way—with the release of Microsoft’s most recent...
View ArticleMimecast Beats Estimates in 1st Earnings Release
Mimecast, the email security firm with the really great ticker symbol (MIME), reported its first earnings as a public company, Monday. The company, which is based in London and has its U.S. HQ in...
View ArticleAkamai Is Beating Expectations & Shaking up Its Structure
Staying relevant—and growing steadily—through the many phases of the Web's evolution hasn't been a simple task for any tech company that's been around as long as Akamai Technologies. But the...
View ArticleDespite the SaaS Slowdown, Demandware Beats Q4 Estimates
It’s not a great time to be a software-as-a-service company. But on Tuesday, SaaS e-commerce software maker Demandware reported strong Q4 financials, possibly pointing to the company outpacing its...
View ArticleHubSpot Beat Expectations Again in Q4
HubSpot ($HUBS) kicked off the new year with a major real estate expansion in Cambridge, signaling aggressive hiring plans for the year ahead. But amid a slowdown in the software-as-a-service...
View ArticleIRobot Shares Sink on Lower Expectations for Q1
IRobot surpassed Wall Street expectations in the final quarter of 2015, but the company's stock price dropped on Wednesday in response to some soft guidance for the current quarter. Here's how iRobot...
View ArticleTripAdvisor Is Surging on Q4 Earnings
In a strong counter to the circulating idea that the online travel space is "becoming less favorable," TripAdvisor on Thursday reported breezing past Wall Street expectations in Q4. TripAdvisor's...
View ArticleCyberArk Smashes Expectations in Q4, But Shares Plummet
With rumors circulating that CyberArk could be in acquisition talks, the Massachusetts- and Israel-based cybersecurity firm reported Thursday on how it fared in closing out 2015. Namely: pretty well,...
View ArticleLogMeIn Beats Expectations Again In Q4
Like HubSpot, LogMeIn ($LOGM) was another Boston-area tech company to kick off the new year with a major real estate expansion to make room for big hiring plans. That followed a number of other...
View ArticleWayfair Is Closer to Profitability After Crushing Q4
The holidays have come and gone, and Boston’s Wayfair ($W) reportedly made out pretty well, with a recent report by Slice Intelligence calling it the season’s fastest-growing e-commerce player. The...
View ArticleNetflix Stock Drops on Q1 Results
Things are anything but chill for Netflix right now. Subscriber growth in the U.S. for Netflix ($NFLX) has been disappointing to Wall Street and an upcoming price increase might worsen the trend....
View ArticleAkamai Beats Wall Street Expectations in Q1 as Media Business Continues to...
Akamai Technologies is starting off with a strong 2016 in its Q1 earnings report, showing that it beat Wall Street expectations both in revenue and in earnings. However, losses widened for its...
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