Safa Rashtchy
Safa Rashtchy
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We also expect more spending on search advertising. On top of these broader economic sectors, we expect the Internet companies, in particular e-commerce players, will increase their spending noticeably. These trends together will bring more maturity to the online advertising sector in China.
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On the surface, you would expect that gas prices would draw people online, but I am not a big believer in that, ... Remember that people are cutting back on spending because of higher expenses such as fuel and lower consumer confidence.
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What investors were looking for was for spending to go lower. But at least costs didn't go up even further.
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Competition is seriously hurting Amazon and it needs to increase spending just to keep up with the market. The picture is getting worse: more spending, steeper decline in margins.
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It's alarming, ... because you don't know if they are spending more because of exciting new products that could come out in the near future or because of competitive pressure to keep up with everyone else.
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With growth pushed off until 2007 and beyond, we would not be active buyers yet but rather look for potential catalysts over the next year.
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To me, it was a very solid quarter. I'm not disappointed at all. We knew the point would come when operations would match expectations.
amazon further goal increase saw slower takes
While this may be a slower increase than we saw in 2005, this takes Amazon further away, not closer, to its goal of double-digit margins.
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When Microsoft came out with IE there was barely anything else available and IE was good enough for newcomers.
cautious curious
I would be curious and cautious about what that would entail.
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Obviously, it will mean a wider ownership of the stock and potentially lower volatility. We've seen that with other stocks that have been in the S&P 500.
advertising bottom hit seeing slow slump
We have hit the bottom of the advertising slump and are seeing a slow recovery, ... Things are not getting worse, and they are getting progressively better.
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It is a positive move. Investors almost hated the e-commerce business because a it was low margin operation, ... What they like about Internet media companies is they get 80-to-90 percent margins on advertising and sponsorships agreements. Why bring it down by selling something that has no margins?
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For some reason, people had their hopes much higher than this, especially for the guidance. Everything seems to be in line.