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Amazon Reinvents Retail in Historic Fashion
At the experimental Amazon Go grocery store, Amazon Prime customers just grab what they want and go out the door, no lines, no cash registers. …
Electric Vehicles Recall Dawn of Auto Age
The move to electric powertrains in cars, buses and trucks is going to be unstoppable. …
Genius fund’s tricky efforts have roots in the 1890s
How today’s genius traders compare with the swashbuckling stock market wheeler-dealers of the Gilded Age? …
Nvidia Bets Big On ‘Deep Learning’
Nvidia’s deep learning artificial intelligence software helps companies build more intelligent products and solve the most complex problems with software. …
Trump Can’t Stop the Chinese Super Truck
China has a big advantage over American companies in the race to bring autonomous trucks to the U.S. and the world. …
Facebook Gets Its Game Face On
Videogamers have been elevated to the level of professional athletes – attracting big money to invest in their teams. …
MSFT Surface Lures Apple Fans
Microsoft clearly has designs on Apple’s most prized market – the hip, sophisticated creative types. …
Pixel Leads Voice-Command Smartphone Revolution
For the Pixel smartphone, Google has made an artificial intelligence program that’s more portable, easier to use and even smarter than its A.I. competition. …
Self-Driving Cars Wreck Old Auto Ideas
The world auto industry faces big changes as self-driving cars speed toward everyday use. …
Automation Zaps Factory Workers
It doesn’t matter who wins the White House. They can’t stop the old-time American factory worker from going the way of the buffalo. But don’t blame China, blame automation. …
Samsung Finally Gets More Intelligent
Samsung enters the A.I. wars by investing in a cutting-edge digital assistant named Viv. …
Smart Cars and the Cyber-Afterlife
Smart cars and a cyber-afterlife are small steps toward creating true artificial intelligence. …
Why Online Giants Woo Twitter
Twitter has corporations hooked on its Big Data feed – now one of them’s going to pay big bucks to keep the data coming. …
Cybersecurity ‘Cold War’ Heats Up
There’s a secret war being waged in cyberspace to save your Internet. …
Big Data Can Cure Big Illness
Three companies are leading the big data revolution in healthcare – IBM, Splunk and Alphabet (the parent company of Google). …
Boom Coming in Connected Healthcare
To cut costs from avoidable readmissions, hospitals will combine the cloud with devices that monitor patients at home or wherever they may be. …
FedEx Should Fear Amazon
When the retail giant Amazon learns to make its own deliveries, it could make FedEx and UPS obsolete. …
Facebook Tries To Re-Friend Teens
Facebook hires a boy genius to develop apps that will attract one of the most-coveted markets for advertisers – teenagers. …
Nvidia Has Still Got Game!
Nvidia earns its profits by dominating best-in-category products in four high-growth, tech arenas – gaming graphics, professional visualization, data centers and automotive electronics. …
Pentagon Funds Our Future Robot Overlords
A Pentagon cyber war game may mark the beginning of the end for humans if super-smart robots won’t tolerate them. …
Samsung Debuts Dumbest Elite Smartphone
Samsung and Apple can no longer survive by simply churning out one hot new cell phone after another. …
Apple Falls Far From the Tree
The Apple Services division could save the tech giant’s bacon as sales plummet for iPhones, iPads and Macs …
Facebook’s Hardware Revolution
Facebook’s Open Compute Project (OCP) has launched a renaissance of innovation in hardware development and networking. …
Data Storage Is in Our DNA
Microsoft wants to use synthetic DNA strands to store the world's data. And that could make giant data centers obsolete. …
A Threat to Reality Television
It’s gritty, voyeuristic, astonishingly addictive and live. What is it? Jon Markman explains. …
Parking is the New “Plastics”
What’s the biggest cause of urban congestion? It’s motorists who must drive around to find a parking place. Sidewalk Labs has a plan to solve this. …
Say Good Night, Siri
Apple has stubbornly avoided embracing cloud computing – leaving Siri powerless to compete with a new generation of AI assistants. …
Intel Leaps into the Cloud
To move into the future and back to the top of the heap, Intel has revamped its focus on cloud computing and the Internet of Things. …
Banks Turn to Blockchain to Fight Cyber-Crime
To combat a rash of cyber-thefts, bankers plan to borrow a trick from the Bitcoin playbook — it’s called Blockchain. …
June May Signal a Hot Streak in S&P 500
June’s usually a sleepy stock market month, but this year June has the potential to kick-off a hot streak in the S&P 500. …
App Makers Chase an Elusive Dream
The app-development frenzy started with a good slogan and quickly gained speed. What’s the future hold? …
22 Stocks Have the Midas Touch for Profits
In an era of declining earnings, tight consumer spending and scant inflation, 22 stocks have discovered ways to grow gross profits over the long haul. …
The Future of Software is Wide Open
The cloud and open-computing platforms are completely changing the landscape in which tech companies must compete. …
We All Pay When Big Investors Lose NIRP-Incited Gambles
NIRP pushes Wall Street to take big gambles, but Main Street pays for the price when Wall Street loses these big bets. …
Apple Takes a Bruising as the Cloud Takes Over
Once a groundbreaking innovator, Apple finds itself playing catchup in the brave new world of the Cloud. …
Just like old-time TV, Internet providers take to the airwaves
The future of the cyberspace may be totally wireless, says Jon Markman, as powerful antennas beam the Internet directly to your computer. …
Banks Still Banking on Taxpayer Bailouts
The FDIC and the Fed say five of the largest U.S. banks have no credible plan in place that would not leave taxpayers on the hook for liabilities in the event of bankruptcy. Sound familiar? …
GAP shares suffer unkind cuts as company’s sales unravel
Jon Markman analyzes why The Gap’s sales graph looks like the Grand Canyon …
Investors Remain Cautious Despite Recent Rally
The current market is full of skeptics. What does this mean for stock prices going forward? …
Wall Street Out of Synch With Reality
The optimism seen by Wall Street is out of synch with the worsening results at companies. …
Oil Shorts Shellacked
Oil shorts have been hit hard in the recent rally. What’s next for the hedge funds and others who bet against the commodity? …
Markets in No-Man’s-Land
When you consider that gasoline prices are near their lowest of the decade and jobs are firming up, you would expect that small-business owners should be optimistic. Yet they’re not. In fact, …
What Next for This Unexpected Rally?
Here are some semi-random items that should help you think about what’s happening in the markets at this time. — The major indexes are off to a stunning start in March, with the S&P …
Consolidation Required?
The rally last week pushed the S&P 500 over its 50-day moving average for the first time in 2016 — or the first time in 38 trading days, to be exact. That was …
Don’t Get Swept Away by Surge
Stocks rallied 6% off their Feb. 11 low - accomplishing more in three days than they did in the prior 26 months. Here are a few reasons ... …
Nasdaq Knockdown: How Bad Is It?
The Nasdaq has been walloped of late, in case you hadn’t noticed. After being untouchable last year, it is unwatchable this year, down 15% from its December high. Many see this as …
Markets Await Yellen After Jobs Data
The unemployment rate has fallen below the 5% threshold for the first time since the 2008-09 recession ended, hitting 4.9% for January. But the government reported Friday that non-farm payrolls increased just …
Corporate Profits Need Oil Rebound — Quickly
If the energy sector can get some relief, the overall market will as well. Ed Yardeni, of Yardeni Research, notes that S&P 500 earnings fell 14.1% in 3Q15 over 3Q14. But that …
Resist the Impulse
Here are some notes on the recent market and coming week. — The highlight of the coming week for markets will be the Federal Reserve meeting that concludes Wednesday. Deutsche Bank economist …
Middle Kingdom at Middle Age
At the end of last year, we looked closely at the aging of the United States. Now is a good time to take a look at China’s demographics, and how the aging …
Oil: $20/Barrel Before a Rebound?
OPEC is continuing its price-war strategy against U.S. shale, an effort reaffirmed just last week when Saudi Arabia’s energy minister said his country’s output strategy “is a reliable policy and we won’t …
