Pivotal Point
Turning points in history and in the markets can help you transform small grubstakes into not-so-small fortunes. Or they can trip up your finances for months, even years. This free e-letter will not only keep you one step ahead of the news, but it will also help you identify the pivotal point in time when a major turn is near.
By Jon D. Markman On October 4, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Marketing has changed. Now it’s all about real-time analytics, artificial intelligence and feeding both with massive amounts of data. To succeed you need all three.
Twitter (TWTR) shares...
By Jon D. Markman On September 27, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Someone is trying to take down the Internet. They are systematically targeting the core systems that keep everything running.
Most people take the Internet for granted. It’s where we get our...
By Jon D. Markman On September 20, 201607:30 AM Eastern
The third industrial revolution is happening right now. Silicon is the new steel, and data is the new oil. Now the companies that build Big Data ecosystems are about to reap the rewards.
That is...
By Jon D. Markman On September 13, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Healthcare costs continue to surge. Now companies are using powerful cloud-computing networks and connected devices to stem the tide. For example, Qualcomm (QCOM) has partnered with Philips USA,...
By Jon D. Markman On September 6, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Amazon (AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos has a history of getting big trends right and executing well. His investment in Internet streaming and transport logistics are big ideas. Now he’s ready to...
By Jon D. Markman On August 30, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Facebook (FB) is obsessed with winning. So it brought in a 19-year-old prodigy to change its fortunes in the one demographic group it is still losing.
Facebook’s rivalry with Snapchat is...
By Jon D. Markman On August 23, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Nvidia (NVDA) doesn’t get the notoriety of Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOGL), Facebook (FB) and Amazon (AMZN). It’s not even really a software company, yet it’s been a better technology investment than...
By Jon D. Markman On August 16, 201607:30 AM Eastern
In dystopian science-fiction movies, it always starts this way: The Pentagon funds a contest of machines built to play war games using artificially intelligent software. End of civilization...
By Jon D. Markman On August 9, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Samsung (SSNLF) just unveiled the best $800 smartphone money can buy. Sadly, there isn’t much pent-up demand for expensive, state-of-the-art mobile devices anymore.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is...
By Jon D. Markman On August 2, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Apple (AAPL) has a plan to remake itself. Its new business model is all about leveraging its hardware ecosystem to sell software services. Unfortunately, hardware isn’t what it used to be.
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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.
