Technology Stocks
Another SpaceX Landing Earlier this week, SpaceX successfully launched and landed its “Falcon 9” rocket on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. It was the second time SpaceX pulled off the ocean landing and this one was even more impressive than the last. The rocket was traveling…
Peter Sunde Is About to Destroy This Industry For most people, the name Peter Sunde is not exactly a household one, but maybe it should be. Sunde is the founder of Pirate Bay, the original and No. 1 site for access to “direction files” (a.k.a., torrent files) pinpointing…
A SpaceX Mission to Mars? Elon Musk has always been pretty open about his ultimate ambition: to set foot on Mars. He even founded a company, SpaceX, to fulfill this wildly ambitious goal. In setting up a space-faring venture, Musk basically catapulted out of the realm of corporate…
Blockchain—The Next Big Thing No One Understands Can you guess what these historical events have in common with blockchain technology? * At the turn of the century, a breakthrough Internet communication technology called “peer-to-peer” (P2P) debuts and is deployed mainly to assist like-minded individuals in sharing music over…
The United States is sunnier than you think. Solar power developers added a record 7.3 gigawatts (GW) of capacity in 2015, up 17% from 2014 and exceeding natural gas installations for the first time. The gains show how fast demand is growing for clean energy sources, as the…
Advocacy group Understand Solar is projecting the rise of power alternatives like solar energy could send silver prices skyrocketing. Silver is essential to the solar market, the group said in a blog article posted on its web site on Sunday. Silver has the highest electrical and thermal conductivity…
Solar Energy Could Dominate All Others Critics often dismiss solar energy as an unworkable idea, even by green energy advocates. The common criticism is that solar power requires a lot of real estate to become viable. But France may have found a solution that would decimate the oil…
The Bullish Case for Solar Power Are you bearish on green energy stocks? If so, take a look at the following numbers, because numbers are what divide fact and fiction. They do not lie. And when looked at impartially, the numbers show widespread adoption of solar power. Getting…
Paul Allen’s Next Project Could Be Huge for Space Travel The airplane boasting the largest wingspan in the world is still in its project stage, but Paul Allen of Microsoft Corporation fame, one of the key figures behind the plane’s development through his company Vulcan Aerospace, is sure…
New Project Could Be Big for FB Stock If I were to pick the most well-managed company in the S&P 500 in the present day, it would, hands down, be Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB). Owing to Mark Zuckerberg’s one ingenious move after the other, FB stock has found a…
Mark Zuckerberg Talks About His Vision for Facebook, Inc. What’s next for Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB)? After having taken over the social media world, Mark Zuckerberg finds himself under pressure to increase returns for Facebook stock. Luckily for FB stockholders, Zuckerberg is not short on ideas. As the founder…
Healthy second-quarter results from technology companies and banks are helping to drive buying in stocks. On Tuesday, the S&P 500 traded at an intraday record and is again looking toward 2,000, while the blue-chip Dow Jones is edging toward another record. While we are hearing about how the…
Thinking of investing in the mobile technology market? You could try to play this market through cell phone manufacturers and decide which company—Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), or the slew of other players in this sector—is the best opportunity. At this time, Apple…
Technology stocks underperformed the S&P 500 and Dow Jones in the first quarter of the year, but that’s no big deal, as I continue to see technology as a market leader. The month of April saw some buying return to technology stocks, with the NASDAQ managing to outperform…
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) traded above $800.00 on February 19, and I still can’t believe I missed out on an early investment opportunity when the stock first debuted at $100.00 in August 2004. The company has become the king of the Internet space and the favorite of retail and…
I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ/FB) is steadily edging higher on its chart and just flew above the $30.00 level last Wednesday, with nearly 105 million shares traded, the highest daily volume since November 16, 2012. There is clearly some market interest returning to…
The tech-laden Nasdaq fared the best in November, with a 1.1% advance, which was well ahead of the 0.3% gain in the S&P 500 and 0.5% decline in the Dow Jones Yet technology and growth stocks have not fared in the equities market since the end of the…
There was so much hype from Wall Street and investors when Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ/FB) made its debut in the public sector on May 18, 2012, and saw its stock price reach a high of $45.00. Well, that has been the high point so far for this company that,…
The trajectory of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) helps determine the movement of the Nasdaq. When Apple lost seven percent in five sessions from April 10 to below $600.00 on April 16, the Nasdaq. lost some ground and breached support at 3,000. Contrary to what some nervous traders believe, Apple…
