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By Mike Larson On November 17, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Do you know what one of the best-performing stocks in my High Yield Investing newsletter is? Probably one of the least “exciting.”
It’s a utility whose business is nowhere near as sexy as the...
By Gavin Magor On November 16, 201707:00 AM Eastern
If you’re at least 65 years old, you’re eligible for Medicare — the federal health insurance plan for people who worked in the U.S. and paid taxes for at least 10 years. The program includes a...
By Jon D. Markman On November 15, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Apple’s iPhone X is cool. Its new gesture-based operating system is super-slick. Yet, it is nothing compared to what Cupertino has up its sleeve.
This week, Bloomberg reported Apple is...
By Mike Larson On November 13, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Things got a bit hairy in the stock market last week.
The Dow Industrials tanked more than 200 points at one point last Thursday on news the Senate might push out corporate tax relief. The Dow...
By Jon D. Markman On November 10, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Skeptics say fully self-driving cars are decades away. They’re wrong.
This week The USA Today reported that Waymo, the Alphabet (GOOGL) subsidiary working on autonomous vehicles, showed off a...
By Gavin Magor On November 9, 201707:00 AM Eastern
When planning for retirement, you’re faced with a variety of investment options – each with different requirements, costs, and limitations. Today, I’ll talk about variable annuities, an option...
By Jon D. Markman On November 8, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Imagine if fighter jets could shoot down enemy targets with high-powered lasers.
That is now closer to reality. Recently, the Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $26 million contract to...
By Jon D. Markman On November 6, 201702:00 PM Eastern
The numbers are out. Apple (AAPL) had another monster year.
Fourth-quarter sales rose 12% year-over-year, to $52.6 billion. Profits were $10.7 billion.
The Cupertino behemoth sold more of...
By Jon D. Markman On November 3, 201702:00 PM Eastern
There is a great scene in the 2013 film “Her.” In it, the leading man plays in an interactive, completely immersive, mixed-reality video game. It’s set in an impossibly rich, virtual world.
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By Jon D. Markman On November 1, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Cloud computing is so yesterday.
Forget blowout growth at Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet (GOOGL) and even IBM (IBM). The future of computing looks like the past, sort of.
Forrester...