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[EXCLUSIVE $5.9M New Listing] Goldman & Amazon Offer SMB Loans, NYSE Owner’s eBay Takeover Offer, YouTube’s $15B Ad Revenue and more: : Newsletter February 7, 2020
Goldman Sachs and Amazon are in discussions over using Amazon’s existing lending platform to offer small business loans. This collaboration would give Goldman the opportunity to capitalize on the sizable community of small and medium e-commerce businesses already working with Amazon. According to the company’s 2019 SMB impact report, more than 1.9 million SMBs, developers and content creators work with the e-com giant and the company had “more than more than $863 million in outstanding SMB loans at the end of 2019.” Although it is still in the works, the project could go live as early as March 2020.
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[$3.5M new listing] Microsoft Record Results, Yotpo Acquires SMSBump, AMCA Trade Deal Announced and more: Newsletter January 31, 2020
According to quarterly financial earnings released this week, Microsoft’s cloud business continues to be a major profit generator as the tech giant posted record sales with gross margins for Azure and Office 365 apps growing to 67% in fiscal quarter two, a percentage that is expected to continue rising this year. The reports revealed revenue from the company’s cloud business reached $12.5B, up 39%. Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella stated climbing gross margins are a result of the company’s diverse range of cloud products, spanning from productivity apps to cloud infrastructure, allowing its commercial cloud business to meet a broad number of customer needs.
Unprofitable DigitalOcean Lay of 10% of Workforce, Google CEO Calls for AI Regulation, US-France Agree to Tax Truce and More: Newsletter January 24, 2020
This week, cloud server-hosting business DigitalOcean terminated as much as 10% of its workforce. A spokesperson for the company made a statement to The Register saying DigitalOcean is undergoing a “restructuring” to organize teams that will better serve its “go-forward growth strategy”. Co-founder Moisey Uretsky gave more insight saying the cuts were attributed to disorganization and leadership changes including two CEO changes in the past 18 months. On HackerNews, Uretsky made a comment denying allegations the company was being prepped for sale and stated the lay-offs are not related to any sort of “cost-cutting” nor does the company have an “immediate need to raise capital”. Despite this, the company is currently not profitable and is struggling to compete with cloud server giants such as AWS.
U.S. China Trade Deal, Amazon Lifts FedEx Ban, Google Core Algo Update, Visa’s $5.3bn Acquisition and More: Newsletter January 17, 2020
On Wednesday, the President signed a preliminary trade deal with China wherein the U.S. will roll-back tariffs in exchange for China’s agreement to purchase $200bn in U.S. products over the next two years, benefiting American farmers and businesses. The agreement is aimed to open Chinese markets to American goods and offers new provisions to protect American trade secrets by imposing heavier punishments for intellectual property theft. This is the first step towards rebalancing the economic relationship between the U.S. and China, and the second phase of negotiations in a few weeks will address industrial subsidies imposed on world markets by China.
CES 2020 Updates, Record App Store Sales and More: Newsletter January 10, 2020
At CES 2020, Google made several announcements surrounding updates and advancements in Google Assistant, the company’s voice-powered AI assistant.
[New c.$1M Listing] Microsoft Cyber Attack, Google Confirms Bug, Twitter Security Breach and More: Newsletter January 3, 2020
It has been an eventful start to 2020 with several major tech companies having to confront safety-compromising cyber attacks internal system bugs.
[New $3.5M Listing] Stripe Upgrades SaaS Metrics, Google Bug & More Updates, Amazon Bans FedEx, CMA Looks to Break Up Google and Facebook and More: Newsletter December 20, 2019
Stripe confirmed on Twitter this week that its dashboard homepage is getting an new look and will now offer additional SaaS analytics features. The update adds customizable analytics and charts allowing users to view detailed reports for several metrics including subscriber retention, average revenue per customer, new customers, MRR and more. Metrics analysis and charts can be freely arranged providing users with a fully personalized dashboard. While the move should not cause issues for well regarded companies like ProfitWell (that also offer these analytics tools for free), it may affect others like Baremetrics (who took $500K in funding from Stripe in 2014) and ChartMogul.
[Alert] Cyber Monday Scam, Google Launches Transfer Service, Centana Fund Raise, Microsoft Shuts Down Wunderlist and More: Newsletter December 13, 2019
A wide-reported Black Friday/Cyber Monday alleged scam has seen 20+ low-end VPS providers announce they were pulling the plug on servers, giving customers less than two days to save their data before being permanently wiped out. Many believe this to have been a multi-brand business exit-scam or affiliate scheme, wherein providers suddenly retracted service after collecting profits made from cheap user fees offered on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Victims of the mass deadpooling scam who inquired about refunds have been left unanswered. To avoid such situations, users are advised to run background checks on service providers before purchasing a subscription.
How Much Your Website is Actually Worth
It’s the most common question we are asked by website owners: What is my website worth? At FE International we speak to thousands of buyers and sellers of internet businesses every year. We’ve put together this resource to help answer ten of the most common questions we are asked when selling websites.
