Articles by Jay Yi

Companies facing data security problems: Siri and Google hacked, police use facial recognition software, SpaceX and Tesla’s manufacturer hacked, and FaceApp scrutinized for its data practices. [more]

The Fraser Institute released the 2019 Annual Survey of Mining Companies, a global survey amongst mining professionals regarding investment attractiveness for various exploration regions around the world. [more]

The global waste management market was valued at US$330.6 billion in 2017 and is expected to reach US$530 billion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 6%. [more]

Lending Club become first FinTech to acquire a bank; Morgan Stanley acquires E*Trade; Intuit acquires Credit Karma; Green Dot gets activist shareholder pressure. [more]

Public Space Companies: Virgin Galactic (NYSE: SPACE), DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH), Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD), and Maxar Technologies (TSX: MAXR); Private Space Companies: SpaceX [more]

Canopy’s stock price has dropped 51% in the past year but as it progresses towards profitability, its stock price has started an upward trend with a 14% increase year-to-date. [more]

Uber and Lyft, the two largest ride-sharing companies competing to be the leader in the global markets, just released their Q4/2019 earnings and guidance for 2020. In 2019, Uber had quarterly net loss of US$1.1B and annual loss of US$8.5B; Lyft had quarterly net loss of US$356M and annual loss of US$2.6B. Both plan to be EBITDA positive by the end of 2020. [more]

Alibaba, Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle are all fighting for a pie of an industry growing at over 20% per year & estimated to be almost $75B by 2022. [more]