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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...
By Mike Larson On May 1, 201707:00 AM Eastern
President Donald Trump just unveiled the “biggest tax cut” ever. Or at least, that’s what he and deputies like Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn are...
By Mike Larson On April 28, 201707:00 AM Eastern
When I was a kid, my mom doled out a lot of oatmeal for breakfast. She tried to spice it up with brown sugar or raisins sometime, and of course, it met my nutritional needs. But let’s be honest:...
By Jon D. Markman On April 26, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Most people are self-driving car skeptics. They just can’t imagine the cumbersome robot cars we see in the media today will ever become good or cheap enough for widespread use.
A big hurdle is...
By Jon D. Markman On April 7, 201702:00 PM Eastern
You may have heard the axiom “software is eating the world.” It’s the idea that digital efforts (i.e. streaming movies) are replacing physical things (i.e. movies in the theater).
Google is...
By Mike Larson On April 7, 201707:00 AM Eastern
I’ve been plenty bullish on a wide range of sectors – including financials, infrastructure, and defense. But autos are definitely not one of them. That’s because more than a year ago, my...
By Jon D. Markman On March 31, 201702:30 PM Eastern
Look overhead. Is it a bird, a plane? No, that’s a flying car. And it’s coming to the skies near you sooner than you think.
If you’re like me, the idea of flying cars is a Jetsons-era...
By Jon D. Markman On March 29, 201702:00 PM Eastern
I love my digital stuff. My iPad Pro, Dell laptop and Nexus6 smartphone make me way more productive, and I can trade and catch up on ballgames from anywhere.
Sadly, there is a darker side to...
By Jon D. Markman On March 24, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Humans are lousy drivers. The fix is coming later this year. A new car promises superhuman driving powers and it will change everything, says a noted analyst.
Adam Jonas, an auto analyst at...