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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 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 October 25, 201702:00 PM Eastern
A California internet company wants to build the future of cities. And it will start with 12 acres of brownfield in Canada.
Sidewalk Labs, the “smart city” division of Alphabet (GOOGL), and...
By Jon D. Markman On September 20, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Your parents probably told you to eat your vegetables so you could grow up strong and healthy.
Well, if you give the same advice to your children and grandchildren, you might be wasting your...
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 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 February 21, 201707:30 AM Eastern
You probably haven’t heard about precision medicine. That’s fine, it wasn’t even possible ten years ago.
But now we’re entering the new Gilded Age — and suddenly researchers are using it to...
By Jon D. Markman On September 6, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Amazon (AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos has a history of getting big trends right and executing well. His investment in Internet streaming and transport logistics are big ideas. Now he’s ready to...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On August 29, 201611:48 AM Eastern
Janet Yellen’s speech last Friday, highlighted a positive outlook for a near future interest rate hike. She noted that solid performance of the labor market, coupled with positive outlook for...