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By Jon D. Markman On August 30, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Facebook (FB) is obsessed with winning. So it brought in a 19-year-old prodigy to change its fortunes in the one demographic group it is still losing.
Facebook’s rivalry with Snapchat is...
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...
By Jon D. Markman On July 19, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Microsoft wants to use synthetic DNA strands to store the world’s data. And that could make giant data centers obsolete.
There’s no doubt about it, the world’s biggest technology firms are...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On July 18, 201602:00 PM Eastern
[Image: James Duncan Davidson used under license CC by 2.0] Last week was a big week for the internet giant Amazon (AMZN). First, the company reached a milestone on Monday by exceeding Berkshire...
By Jon D. Markman On July 12, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Facebook Live changes everything. It’s gripping. It’s real. It’s immediate. And now it looks like it’s ready to kill the last remaining stronghold of network television.
Philando Castile, his...
By Jon D. Markman On July 5, 201607:30 AM Eastern
In the classic 1967 film The Graduate, a family friend offers young Ben one word as guidance for his future: Plastics. Good call.
Google is having that consigliore moment right now with...
By Jon D. Markman On June 21, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Surely you remember Intel. It is still the largest U.S. semiconductor maker, but has curiously faded from prominence. It was once at the top of the heap, riding the wave of desktop computer...
By Jon D. Markman On June 7, 201607:30 AM Eastern
So here we are in June. Can you believe the year is almost half over? Some 156 days have already clicked past, and there are 209 more to go. If there was something you really wanted to accomplish...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On May 31, 201607:00 AM Eastern
The latest data released by the U.S. Department of Commerce showed a 16.6 percent increase in new home sales and a 3.6 percent increase in new residential construction permits for the month of...
By Jon D. Markman On May 24, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Profits are good for companies obviously, but increasing profits on a consistent basis is even better.
So S&P Capital IQ, a division of McGraw Hill Financial, went to work earlier this...