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By Jon D. Markman On May 8, 201905:25 PM Eastern
Facebook is much maligned for its privacy foibles. But the company is planning its second act.
Surprise! Now the social media giant wants to be your wallet.
The company is exploring back-end...
By Jon D. Markman On April 29, 201902:00 PM Eastern
For more than a century, 3M (MMM) has helped companies build better products and work smarter. But lately, the Minnesota Post-it® maker has been showing its age.
Last week, the maker of...
By Sean Brodrick On April 25, 201912:00 PM Eastern
I attended the Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference in Toronto last week. You’ve never seen so many people so serious about something so intoxicating.
But the folks at the conference were there...
By Jon D. Markman On March 22, 201903:15 PM Eastern
Demand for tech stocks swept the Street over the past week as investors decided to go all-in for risk following a Federal Reserve decision on interest rates that could not have been more dovish...
By Tony Sagami On February 25, 201908:55 AM Eastern
It is always a good thing when scumbags get their just desserts. I was pleased to see that Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán got convicted and will likely spend the rest of his life...
By Tony Sagami On February 22, 201907:55 AM Eastern
I look at a lot of charts. Lots and lots of charts. Most are ambiguous or useless and don't tell me anything.
Every once in a while, though, I see one that makes me slap my forehead and say,...
By Jon D. Markman On February 11, 201902:00 PM Eastern
To protect privacy, activists and politicians are clamoring to regulate big tech.
They don’t know it yet, but they are falling into a trap. That’s because big tech is embracing oversight.
In...
By Jon D. Markman On January 23, 201904:20 PM Eastern
Follow the money. It is true in politics, business and investing.
Right now, there is no question that the money is headed into artificial intelligence.
Gartner, a global IT research and...
By Jon D. Markman On October 15, 201802:41 PM Eastern
The powers-that-be want to kill paper money. It would make everything so much easier.
However, cash is still king at the lower rung of the socioeconomic ladder. Walmart (WMT) and PayPal (PYPL)...
By Jon D. Markman On October 3, 201803:25 PM Eastern
Something important is happening. The same forces that turned movies, music and shopping into bits of data are transforming financial services.
To the general public, Betterment LLC is largely...