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By Jon D. Markman On November 20, 201902:00 PM Eastern
Enormous platforms are taking over most aspects of commerce. And there is almost nothing smaller players can do about it.
Microsoft (MSFT) announced Tuesday that Teams, its enterprise chat...
By Jon D. Markman On November 15, 201902:00 PM Eastern
“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.”
The famous juxtaposition from the opening lines of “A Tale of Two Cities” is fitting. On the same day Apple (AAPL) raced to a new high,...
By Jon D. Markman On November 8, 201902:00 PM Eastern
Researchers are one step closer to a spaceplane that could fly between New York and London in about one hour, more than twice as fast as the Concorde.
Previous advances in jet propulsion have...
By Jon D. Markman On November 1, 201902:00 PM Eastern
The last of the big tech companies just reported earnings. And the biggest surprise was … there were no surprises.
Facebook (FB) had another blowout quarter. Mark Zuckerberg’s social media...
By Tony Sagami On October 4, 201908:00 AM Eastern
Whether you love or hate Trump, you can’t deny that he has been pure gold for creating investment opportunities.
The Trump news du jour is about his conversation with the new president of...
By Tony Sagami On July 29, 201903:30 PM Eastern
I’ve done pretty well in life. But I feel like a skid row bum next to my two richest friends, both of whom are rapidly approaching billionaire status.
The one thing these two almost-billionaires...
By Sean Brodrick On July 16, 201912:00 PM Eastern
Here’s a commodity I don’t often talk about: silicon.
Specifically, silicon semiconductors, also known as the integrated circuit or the computer chip. Made of silicon, cobalt and copper, they...
By Tony Sagami On July 8, 201912:56 PM Eastern
Bitcoin peaked at $19,783 on Dec. 17, 2017.
It's now trading well below that peak, but up sharply — more than 250% — from its December 2018 low of $3,122.
Investor interest in...
By Tony Sagami On June 10, 201902:40 PM Eastern
John Bogle, the founder of the Vanguard family of funds, was one of the crankiest men I've ever met in the investment business. But he was also a passionate consumer advocate and one of the most...
By Mike Larson On May 29, 201908:00 AM Eastern
What’s wrong with boring? Absolutely nothing, at least in the investment context.
That’s a message I’ve been conveying in investor presentations ... on my Twitter feed at @RealMikeLarson ... in...