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By Mike Larson On December 18, 201708:00 AM Eastern
On Friday, I shared my list of the best-performing, highest-rated ETFs of 2017. Now it’s time to do the same thing for STOCKS! Our Weiss Ratings database contains more than 13,700 stocks, so...
By Jon D. Markman On December 13, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Here is a neat marketing hook: Fly from New York to London for midday meetings. Be home in time to tuck your kids into bed.
To make this possible, Boom Supersonic is building airplanes that...
By Jon D. Markman On December 11, 201702:00 PM Eastern
In movies and novels, overnight success stories are frequent. Real life doesn’t work that way. It takes years of hard work, vision and at least one gigantic bet-the-farm moment.
This week,...
By Jon D. Markman On December 4, 201702:00 PM Eastern
In 2016, General Motors (GM) bought Cruise Automation for $1 billion.
It was totally out of character. GM, known for being careful, was jumping into self-driving cars headfirst. One year...
By Jon D. Markman On November 17, 201702:00 PM Eastern
The opioid epidemic ravages small and large towns across America.
And it has largely been intractable both to law enforcement and to the medical community. Until now.
This week, the...
By Jon D. Markman On September 29, 201702:00 PM Eastern
The real robot revolution begins Tuesday, Oct. 10. The catalyst will be U.S. Patent No. 9,785, 911.
This patent is being granted to Pittsburgh-area startup IAM Robotics for its Swift Solution...
By Gavin Magor On September 7, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Devastating, and expensive, the damage in Texas from Hurricane Harvey will fall mainly on the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as I said last week. Catastrophe funding will also kick in for...
By Jon D. Markman On August 16, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Airlines have been the butt of customer service jokes for years. Deservedly so. Now they’re fighting back, with software.
This week, JetBlue announced a large investment in Gladly, a Silicon...
By Jon D. Markman On August 11, 201702:00 PM Eastern
A couple of celebrity tech CEOs are having a Twitter fight.
Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla (TSLA) and part-time rocket scientist, believes that unchecked artificial intelligence will ultimately...
By Mike Larson On July 7, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Americans marked the Fourth of July holiday by eating hot dogs and hamburgers, setting off fireworks and lighting sparklers, enjoying countless parades from coast to coast, and otherwise...