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By Remi Lukosiunas On September 19, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Hurricane Irma had its eye set on the east coast of Florida, with catastrophic damage predictions running as high as $200 billion. But she switched gears at the last minute, losing power and...
By Jon D. Markman On September 15, 201702:00 PM Eastern
You may have noticed that the way we travel from Point A to Point B is changing. And this is already impacting fossil fuels.
Last week, China said it’s working on a date to stop selling gas...
By Jon D. Markman On August 30, 201702:00 PM Eastern
The future of spying arrived while you weren’t looking. The new eye-in-the-sky isn’t some shiny satellite. It’s not even a plane or a helicopter.
Drones make perfect super-snoopers.
They are...
By Mike Larson On July 28, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Is this a Commodities Comeback I spy?
Copper futures just hit their highest since May 2015. Lumber futures are approaching their 2004 housing bubble peak. Crude oil is climbing off the mat,...
By Jon D. Markman On July 19, 201702:00 PM Eastern
It started with $2 million worth of Fitbits. Very quickly the project evolved to 3D printed helmets with nanofiber sensors.
That’s what happens when the military decides the Internet of...
By Jon D. Markman On July 5, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Don’t look now, but video surveillance is hot. It was inevitable. The willing surrender of privacy and the fear of bad actors make a potent combination.
This week, police in Dubai enlisted a...
By Mike Larson On June 19, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Nobody saw THAT coming!
Amazon.com (AMZN, Rated “C”) shocked the entire grocery industry on Friday when it announced plans to buy the higher-end chain Whole Foods (WFM, Rated “C”) for $13.7...
By Mike Larson On June 12, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Over the last 10 years, global central banks have waged war on your income portfolio. They’ve slashed benchmark interest rates more than 667 times, and driven yields even lower with more than $12...
By Jon D. Markman On May 3, 201702:00 PM Eastern
In 1997, a tiny company in Scotts Valley, Calif., came up with a radical business model. The big idea was to use data to change the way average people consume media.
That company was Netflix...
By Jon D. Markman On May 1, 201704:00 PM Eastern
Last week, as the Nasdaq Composite Index crossed 6,000 for the first time, Robert Shiller, a Nobel laureate economist, made the rounds in the financial press.
He’s worried. Valuations are...