Summary Much is written about Tesla (TSLA) and Elon Musk on this platform and elsewhere. The circus that surrounds Tesla is well-known and heavily-covered on this platform – so I won’t write about any of that here. Instead, this is… Continue Reading
Never underestimate the market-moving potential of a nagging child. “Mom, Dad, I want THIS for Christmas!” is a phrase that each year leads to billions of dollars of toy sales. And it’s a phrase parents can appreciate, because knowing what… Continue Reading
techrepublic Kubernetes: The smart person’s guide Kubernetes is a series of open source projects for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Find out why the ecosystem matters, how to use it, and more. Read More How do… Continue Reading
“The most important consideration when investing in the stock market is the primary trend of the equity markets.”– Richard Russell (Dow Theory Letters) As we enter the final month of 2018, it is a good time to take a peek… Continue Reading
Welcome to Seeking Alpha’s Stocks to Watch – a preview of key events scheduled for the next week. Follow this account and turn the e-mail alert on to receive this article in your inbox every Saturday morning. Investors are prepping… Continue Reading
Slack hired investment bank Goldman Sachs as the lead underwriter for its highly anticipated initial public offering, Reuters reported Friday. Slack is talking with investment banks to help underwrite an IPO, which could end up valuing the chat and workplace-collaboration… Continue Reading
VANCOUVER/LONDON (Reuters) – Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s chief financial officer faces U.S. accusations that she covered up her company’s links to a firm that tried to sell equipment to Iran despite sanctions, a Canadian prosecutor said on Friday, arguing against… Continue Reading
Not to worry, Yahoo, you still had the largest data breach in corporate history, at 3 billion records. But at 500 million, Marriott is a strong second, and maybe should be first. That’s because of the nature of the data… Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Key U.S. senators are making a last-ditch effort to win approval of a bill to speed the use of self-driving cars without human controls, but face an uphill battle on Capitol Hill. The U.S. Capitol building is… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) said on Monday it was not looking to revive its abandoned $44 billion acquisition of Dutch peer NXP Semiconductors NV (NXPI.O), a day after the White House said China would reconsider clearing a… Continue Reading
The Surprising Thing This CEO Learned About Building a Team (After Firing a Top Performer) [VIDEO] | Inc.com <!—-> You’re about to be redirected We notice you’re visiting us from a region where we have a local version of Inc.com.… Continue Reading
Inc. This Morning delivers a daily email digest of the news curated for anyone interested in entrepreneurship. Want this email in your inbox every day? Sign up here. Elon Musk. The name alone inspires passion. He’s either a generational genius or a… Continue Reading
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia plans to impose stiffer fines on technology firms that fail to comply with Russian laws, sources familiar with the plans said, raising the stakes in the Kremlin’s fight with global tech giants such as Facebook (FB.O)… Continue Reading
Looking for a dependable high-yield vehicle? The management at USA Compression Partners LP (USAC) have maintained the company’s $.52 quarterly through previous boom and bust cycles: (Source: USAC site) If you’ve ever researched how natural gas gets pulled out of… Continue Reading
It’s predicted that $23B will be spent online between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday. In fact, Cyber Monday is slated to set a record as the biggest online shopping day of the entire year, up almost 18% from 2017. Here are… Continue Reading
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. A grasp of ethics is becoming slightly more popular in business these days. Well, we can thank the Valley’s abject disregard for ethics,… Continue Reading
PARIS (Reuters) – French tobacco shops, where people go to buy lottery tickets and cigarettes, will start offering bitcoins to customers from early next year via a deal with a French fintech company Keplerk. FILE PHOTO: A collection of Bitcoin… Continue Reading
But before a company can build their business value of design, some critical building blocks must be in place. They must first prime the organization to have a culture of creativity that supports design-centric initiatives. This only happens when companies… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – A Russian company whose accountant was charged by federal prosecutors for attempting to meddle in U.S. elections sued Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Tuesday, claiming it is a legitimate news outlet and its Facebook account should be restored. FILE… Continue Reading
Type “cheesecloth” into Google shopping. Hundreds of online shopping options pop up, in more than a dozen shades, at a range of price points. Many of the packages can be shipped to you in two days or less. In other… Continue Reading
Analysis Context & Disclosure Semi-annually I cycle through my universe of companies that I would like to own and update my intrinsic value for the company. It is now time for Southwest Airlines to be updated. In the case of… Continue Reading
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said this week the company will create an oversight board to help with content moderation. The move is a belated acknowledgement Zuckerberg is out of its depth when it comes to ethics and policy, and comes… Continue Reading
The Philadelphia Flyers figured they were in for something horrible when they introduced their new mascot, Gritty, this year. The thing looks ridiculous, let’s just admit: “an orange mess of googly eyes and a hoopla-hoop belly,” according to ESPN. And… Continue Reading
Every once in a while I get a comment from an audience member after a keynote speech or from someone who read my book, Mapping Innovation, about why so few women are included. Embarrassed, I try to explain that, as in… Continue Reading
Last week, I had the pleasure of interviewing a remarkable toy inventor named Mary Couzin. In 2003, Couzin founded Chicago Toy and Game Week — affectionately known as ChiTAG — to bring toy inventors, toy companies, and toy lovers together.… Continue Reading
FILE PHOTO: A Google logo is seen at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, U.S., November 1, 2018. REUTERS/ Stephen Lam/File Photo (Reuters) – Former Oracle Corp product chief Thomas Kurian is replacing Diane Greene as chief executive of… Continue Reading
Google has released a new Thanksgiving study that aims at helping you save time on lines and travel. The report, which was published on Thursday, evaluates data Google has collected from its services to find the best times to avoid… Continue Reading
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At OpenStack Summit in Berlin, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, said in his keynote the question he gets asked the most is “What does he make of IBM buying Red Hat?” His reply is that IBM had spent… Continue Reading
Featured stories At OpenStack Summit in Berlin, the OpenStack Foundation revealed more of its plans for its projects beyond the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud. These projects are: Kata Containers, a secure container approach; Zuul, a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)… Continue Reading