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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 Mike Larson On August 18, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Have you ever heard of Marty Zweig? If not, he’s a famous money manager and author of the classic investing book Winning on Wall Street. Zweig passed away a few years ago, but one of his trademark...
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 Mike Larson On August 14, 201707:00 AM Eastern
The North Korea crisis finally got the market’s attention last week. On Thursday alone, the Nasdaq Composite Index tanked more than 135 points, the CBOE VIX Index surged 42%, and “safe haven”...
By Mike Larson On August 11, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Twenty-seven years and two weeks ago, Iraqi infantry and tanks poured across the border into Kuwait. Saddam Hussein’s lightning-fast invasion overwhelmed the defenders, and he seized the country...
By Jon D. Markman On August 9, 201702:00 PM Eastern
A tiny Chicago startup is having a huge impact on insurance.
Lemonade Insurance Company wanted to disrupt the way insurance companies do business. So it replaced brokers and paperwork with...
By Mike Larson On August 7, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Want to make money in today’s market? Then I have a very simple, secret piece of advice for you …
Forget politics!
Nine-tenths of what you’re hearing or seeing out of Washington these days is...
By Jon D. Markman On August 4, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Water covers most of the planet. Yet, fresh drinking water remains a precious commodity in many places. It’s one of life’s rich riddles.
A Spanish company has a solution. Abengoa S.A. (MCE:...
By Jon D. Markman On August 2, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Everywhere you look, something in the real world seems to be getting replaced by something digital.
Thankfully, the real world has started to strike back.
This week, The Wall Street...
By Jon D. Markman On July 31, 201702:00 PM Eastern
John Fischer holds the Guinness record for the world’s largest ball of stickers.
It’s not surprising.
He is also the founder and CEO of StickerGiant.com, a Colorado business that Forbes dubbed...