Andy Lin's Long-term Stock Investment Blog

VeriSign, one of Buffett’s few long-term tech holding, performance is not that good

VeriSign first became famous in the late 1990s, when the Internet was booming. Its stock price more than doubled in the year it went public, and soared nearly 12 times in 1999.

GoDaddy, world’s largest hosting platform, snapped the best year of share performance since listing

As of 2023, GoDaddy hosts more than 62 million registered domains, making it the world’s largest ICANN-accredited registrar, serving more than 21 million customers. In terms of market share, GoDaddy is the fifth largest web hosting provider in the world.

Apple search engine, the possibility and necessity to inhouse develop

Whether Apple should develop its own Apple search engine has been a headache puzzled Apple management. Search engines are the “most fundamental technology” for monetizing all advertising on the Internet today.

ByteDance, TikTok’s parent comapny, the world’s most valuable unicorn

It is generally believed that Xing Wang of Meituan, Colin Huang of Pinduoduo, Yiming Zhang of ByteDance, the world’s most valuable unicorn, and Wei Cheng of Didi are the third generation of Chinese Internet entrepreneurs.

How does the all-powerful Huawei make money?

No company in modern corporate history has ever won this honor. You can imagine the importance of this enterprise. The United States has discovered the signs of Huawei’s development. For the first time in history, the Department of Defense replaced the Department of Commerce to supervise Huawei.