(Reuters) – U.S. consumer bible Consumer Reports stopped short of recommending Tesla Inc’s (TSLA.O) Model 3 electric car on Monday, criticizing it for its braking and taking the shine off a day of gains for shares in billionaire Elon Musk’s… Continue Reading
The newest big trend in tech startups is in turn fueling an emergent youth culture, as teenagers and young adults spend their free time collecting and charging electric scooters. Some compare it to a game—one that they’re getting paid pretty… Continue Reading
Bullish expectations for Q3 This article explores the bullish projection that Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) is about to become profitable in Q3. Among the expectations discussed below are that Tesla Model 3 sales in Q2 will be 20,000 cars fewer than production… 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. While investors will… Continue Reading
Want to know about some of the great business books coming out this summer? I get lots of advance copies from publishers and authors, and here are some of my favorites that will be released in the next few months. If you see any you… Continue Reading
TOKYO (Reuters) – China regulatory authorities have approved the $18 billion sale of Toshiba Corp’s (6502.T) chip unit to a consortium led by U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported on Thursday, without citing sources. FILE… Continue Reading
LONDON (Reuters) – British game maker Bossa Studios will release Worlds Adrift on Thursday, an ambitious adventure game designed to appeal to the Minecraft generation that has taken three years and 50,000 gamers to create. Twenty gamers play “Worlds Adrift”,… Continue Reading
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – As Hollywood studios unleash their summer blockbusters into theaters, Netflix Inc is trying to give film buffs a reason to stay home. FILE PHOTO: The Netflix logo is shown in this illustration photograph in Encinitas, California,… Continue Reading
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s biggest ride-sharing company, Didi Chuxing, will disable features such as profile pictures, ratings and public tags from its carpooling service, as it looks to win back trust after the killing of a female passenger sparked questions… Continue Reading
Facebook has created an online resource center for teenagers to learn tips and tricks for using the social networking service. On Monday, the technology giant debuted the Youth Portal, intended for teens to better understand how to control their Facebook… Continue Reading
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Two Chinese bitcoin mining equipment makers plan to raise up to $1 billion each from Hong Kong listings this year, riding on strong global interest in cryptocurrencies, IFR reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the… Continue Reading
The modern car has a problem. Over the past decade, automakers have raced to offer their smartphone-addled customers a bonanza of features: navigation, texting, phone calls, satellite radio, Bluetooth, ways to check tire pressure and oil temperature, suspension settings, charging… Continue Reading
Recently, my wife and I returned from a trip to Europe. While we were there, I enjoyed some tremendous wines. It got me thinking how fine wine and good business share many characteristics. They both require quality inputs, time to… Continue Reading
Apple Music and Pandora have removed certain songs by R. Kelly from promoted playlists, according to music news sites Pitchfork and The Blast, adding to the list of streaming music services that have made the hit artist’s music more difficult… Continue Reading
(AMD vs. Nvidia from DeskDecode.com.) On March 23rd, 2018, we published an article entitled, “Nvidia is Playing with Fire” in which we discussed Nvidia’s (NVDA) GeForce Partner Program (NASDAQ:GPP) and its implications on AMD’s (AMD) graphics cards business. Please read… Continue Reading
An Update on Self-Driving Cars Google’s artificial intelligence efforts extend well beyond handsets and smart speakers. Waymo, the company’s self-driving car unit, has been siphoning the company’s AI power to develop the future of transportation. “Today Waymo is the only… Continue Reading
Video: Microsoft gains protected-level cloud classification from ASD At Red Hat Summit in San Francisco, Red Hat and Microsoft announced they were bringing Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat’s Kubernetes container orchestration platform, to Microsoft’s Azure, Microsoft’s public cloud. The two… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – Silicon Valley self-driving startup Drive.ai said on Monday it will launch a pilot program for an autonomous ride-hailing service in July in Frisco, Texas, with safety drivers present. The initial pilot will run for six months and will… Continue Reading
Please Note: This article was first published for Income Idea subscribers on Thursday along with additional analysis and implementation ideas. All data in this article is as of 5/2/2018. I have generally been a fan of actively managed funds where… Continue Reading
Good morning and happy cyber Cinco de Mayo, dear readers. I received an abundance of thoughtful responses to my essay on rejecting consumer DNA tests last weekend. In lieu of a column, I’ve reproduced a selection of the several dozen… Continue Reading
The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office issued an order Friday requiring SCL Elections, the British affiliate of the controversial data mining firm Cambridge Analytica, to turn over all of the data it collected about a United States-based academic named David… Continue Reading
Here we go. J.P. Morgan Chase has applied for a patent to facilitate payments between banks using the blockchain. The patent was originally submitted in October, but the application was made public by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on… Continue Reading
Apple Watch is being credited for saving a New York man’s life. While he was working at his family’s bowling alley business Bowlerland last month, 32-year-old William Monzidelis became dizzy and started bleeding all over his body. Soon after, the… Continue Reading
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank has designed a new test simulating cyber attacks on banks, stock exchanges and other firms that are critical for the functioning of the financial system, it said on Wednesday. The logo of the… Continue Reading
Contrasting Fortunes Between P&G And Unilever In recent weeks, Procter & Gamble (PG) has received a couple of downgrades following its Q3 FY2018 results announcement. In contrast, its peer in the consumer products space, Unilever (UL)(UN)(OTCPK:UNLNF)(OTCPK:UNLYF)(OTCPK:UNLVF), was upgraded by UBS… Continue Reading
Investment Thesis Whenever I talk to an Amazon (AMZN) shareholder they always highlight for me the same ‘story’ – which is, Amazon is investing for growth. However, if after more than a decade of investing for growth, the business is… Continue Reading
Fellow watchers of Westworld, we have cracked the façade. The second episode of Season 2 opens on Dolores’ (Evan Rachel Wood) face. Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) asks if she knows where she is; she guesses she is in a dream. He… Continue Reading
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Amazon.com’s Whole Foods Market sparked social media outrage after its newest store in its 365 grocery chain partnered with an Asian restaurant with the racially charged name of Yellow Fever. A Whole Foods Market store is… Continue Reading
The meeting earlier today between North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un and South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in was something most of us never expected to see in our lifetimes. Whatever happens next, we should pause to take note of this historic event… Continue Reading
The past few years have seen almost every major technology firm talk up the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to transform the enterprise, providing the skills and compute barriers blocking progress can be overcome. On the skills front, Google, Amazon,… Continue Reading