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By Jon D. Markman On October 9, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Every year, some of the smartest people on Wall Street get together to hobnob, raise money for charity and talk about their very best ideas.
This year, Dallas hosted the Great Investors Best...
By Jon D. Markman On September 27, 201702:45 PM Eastern
Volvo is simplifying its powertrains. Now it wants to simplify the way it sells vehicles.
The iconic Swedish carmaker with the Chinese parent has a new plan to get millennials into its cars:...
By Jon D. Markman On September 22, 201702:00 PM Eastern
City dwellers are ditching four wheels for two. Bicycle lanes and sharing depots are popping up in cities and metro areas all across the world. Many more are coming.
The bike-share business...
By Mandeep Rai On September 13, 201707:00 AM Eastern
You’ve heard me talk about our Weiss Ratings Model plenty of times. But what is it really? How does it work? And most importantly, why should you care?
That’s a lot of questions, and I’ll start...
By Jon D. Markman On August 18, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Industrial designers dream about products free of buttons and wired connections. Sadly, function always gets in the way.
That is likely to change. Samsung, Foxconn and other firms are...
By Jon D. Markman On August 7, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Big Blue. It’s supposed to be the best of blue-chip stocks. It’s not.
The latest financial results for International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) have arrived. And they are dismal, again. Mark...
By Remi Lukosiunas On August 1, 201707:00 AM Eastern
The Dodd-Frank Act – Three words that make the financial industry cringe. Banks, credit unions, and the big dogs on Wall Street have been struggling to keep up with the law, and fighting it on...
By Jon D. Markman On July 26, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Plenty has a great name. It also has a compelling vertical farming idea that could change agriculture forever.
Last week, the San Francisco agricultural technology company scored $200 million in...
By Jon D. Markman On June 26, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Oil prices have crashed from $52 to $42 in the last month. And China’s the culprit, say Wall Street analysts.
China is an easy mark: Ghost cities, capital flight, shadow banking, rising dissent...
By Jon D. Markman On June 14, 201702:00 PM Eastern
In the near future, scientists will engineer food that grows faster and does not spoil.
This is the promise of CRISPR/Cas 9, a game-changing gene-editing tool.
Bioengineered food could end...