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By Jon D. Markman On March 9, 201802:00 PM Eastern
The regulators are coming after cryptocurrency quick-buck artists. Big surprise, right?
In Japan, regulators just shut down two exchanges in the wake of another high-profile heist. This could be...
By Jon D. Markman On March 7, 201802:00 PM Eastern
Amazon.com (AMZN) is at it again. The online retail giant has another target in its sites. Let the worry … and disruption … begin.
This week, The New York Times reported Amazon.com executives...
By Jon D. Markman On March 5, 201802:00 PM Eastern
A multiple-stage rocket blasts off from Russia and enters space. From there, it rains ballistic nuclear missiles on unsuspecting Floridians.
Welcome to the morbid fantasy of Vladimir Putin.
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By Jon D. Markman On March 2, 201802:00 PM Eastern
A fully loaded Porsche Panamera 4S Executive will run you $147,750 before taxes. It already offers a lot of the latest technology and luxury options. And soon, its software will be powered by...
By Jon D. Markman On February 28, 201802:00 PM Eastern
Big technology companies are finally pushing into healthcare. For those of us fed up with surging insurance premiums, repeated bureaucratic snafus and occasionally substandard patient outcomes,...
By Jon D. Markman On February 26, 201802:00 PM Eastern
Imagine spending your day eating ice cream and drinking cherry Coke. Or hanging out with Bill Gates and LeBron James.
The next meeting is coming up on May 5. Investors got a preview of what’s to...
By Jon D. Markman On February 23, 201802:00 PM Eastern
The future of the Internet began Thursday morning. That’s when Falcon 9, the reusable SpaceX rocket, blasted into space.
Elon Musk’s rocket company gets a lot of good press. Rightfully so....
By Jon D. Markman On February 21, 201802:00 PM Eastern
Fiat-digital coins are coming. And the concept is just as clunky as the name.
This week, Venezuela launched pre-sales for the Petro. This is a cryptocurrency backed by crude oil.
Its arrival...
By Jon D. Markman On February 16, 201802:00 PM Eastern
Listen up, crypto investors. This week, Brad Garlinghouse dropped some truth about some alternative digital coins.
Garlinghouse is the founder of digital payments company Ripple. He told...
By Jon D. Markman On February 14, 201802:32 PM Eastern
Wireless networks 20 times faster are just around the corner.
In January, Qualcomm (QCOM) announced a partnership with six leading Chinese smartphone manufacturers to begin rollout of 5G...
About the Editor
Jon D. Markman is winner of the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for outstanding financial journalism and the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi award. He was also on Los Angeles Times staffs that won Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of the 1992 L.A. riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. He invented Microsoft’s StockScouter, the world’s first online app for analyzing and picking stocks.
