Category Finance

Tiny Snips, Business, Finance, Tech

TS #42 – Anjali Sud – The Indian Who Reinvented Vimeo

On May 25, Anjali Sud became the First Indian Woman to take a company public. Sud is the CEO of the video SaaS company Vimeo. Founded in 2004, even before YouTube, Vimeo was the first company to introduce the “like”…

Shreesha S
May 26, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, China, Finance, Tech

TS #39 – Alibaba X Tencent

Alibaba and Tencent, both are Chinese tech giants with diversified interest across different business sectors ranging from commerce to social media and gaming. Among the two, Alibaba has a market cap of $588 Billion(approx.) while Tencent boasts a $730 Billion…

Shreesha S
May 22, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Finance

TS #32 – An Error Margin of Just 187400%!

Last week, one of India’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange WazirX started trading in the “Doge killer” Shiba Inu token. It was listed at around Rs 3 while actually being worth about just Rs 0.0016. But why? The third party liquidity provider…

Shreesha S
May 18, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Finance, Tech

TS #31 – The Curse of a Verse!

Recently, the CEO of the Chinese Delivery Giant Meituan had posted a verse from a 1,100 year old poem on the Chinese microblogging site Fanfou(Weibo). Over the course of the next 2 days, his company lost $26 billion in value…

Shreesha S
May 17, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Finance, Tech

TS #26 – ByteDance: Some Metrics

ByteDance is the world’s most Valuable private company and the parent of the infamous short-video app Tik-Tok. It is rumored to go for a public issue for its Chinese Assets in the Hong Kong bourses. Let’s look at some of…

Shreesha S
May 13, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Finance, Miscellaneous, Tech

TS #24 – “Literal Dogecoin on the Literal Moon”

SpaceX, the space exploration company founded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced last day that it will fund its mission to launch a satellite(named DOGE -1) to the moon exclusively by Dogecoin. Most of the price increase of he Dogecoin…

Shreesha S
May 13, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Finance, Miscellaneous

TS #20 – Berkshire H x Robinhood

In their recent shareholder’s meeting on April 30, Warren Buffet and his business partner Charlie Munger, considered the legends in investing, outright denounced Robinhood and the entire culture around it. Buffet said there is “nothing illegal to it, there’s nothing…

Shreesha S
May 4, 2021

Tiny Snips, Economy, Finance, Miscellaneous

TS #18 – The Swedish Carbon Tax

A carbon tax is basically tax on burning fossil fuels that contain high percentages of carbon. In a more technical term, it is a fee that a government imposes on any company that burns fossil fuels. This is imposed so as…

Shreesha S
May 2, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Finance, Tech

TS #17 – YouTube over Netflix!

YouTube has been the go-to for people of all ages to stream content online. Netflix is just like the new rich kid on the street and the one raking in higher revenues. But not for long. Last week, both companies…

Shreesha S
May 1, 2021

Tech, Finance, Miscellaneous, Tiny Snips

TS #14 – That’s The ONE!

Amazon recently introduced its palm-scanning payment system to a Whole Foods store. It is one of the two advanced payment options Amazon has been successfully testing, other being the “Just Walk Out” technology, wherein the customers can shop for products and…

Shreesha S
April 26, 2021