Patrick Cox has lived deep inside the world of transformative technologies for over 25 years. In the 1980s, he worked in computer software development and manufacturing. By the mid-1990s, he worked as a consultant for Netscape — the company that handled 90% of all Internet browsing traffic at the time. InfoWorld and USA Today have featured Patrick’s research many times. He’s also appeared on Crossfire and Nightline. This expertise bought him to Agora Financial, where he now heads Breakthrough Technology Alert, the only place you’ll find the truly transformational technologies that offer exponential gains.
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May 12th, 2009 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Featured, Technology
As you know, I've written regularly about memristors. This fabled "fourth circuit variable" was hypothesized in 1971. Until now, though, three circuit variables have long been the basis for all electronic circuits. They are resistance, capacitance and inductance.
Last year, HP made news by demonstrating a practical application of memristance. At ...
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Tags: memristors
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May 5th, 2009 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Featured, Technology
A more recent addition to my transformational technologies portfolio, Medarex, has scored a huge win. The company, along with Massachusetts Biologic Laboratory, will get $60 million upfront from Merck for license rights to a monoclonal antibody that apparently cures C. difficile infection. They are eligible for another $165 million in ...
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Tags: swine flu, vaccines
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Apr 8th, 2009 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Featured, Technology
Finally, Apple has allowed Skype to offer an iPhone app. This means that iPhone users can make free phone calls from any Wi-Fi hot spot.
The iPhone is by no means the first phone to utilize Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). More sophisticated phones have had the capability for years. When ...
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Tags: iPhone, Kindle, Skype, VoIP
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Mar 31st, 2009 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Featured, Technology
There's been so much stem cell news recently, I haven't written a lot about the other major breakthrough area in medicine. That is, of course, RNA interference. So I'd like to rectify that.
For those of you who are not familiar with RNA interference, here’s what it is and how it ...
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Tags: RNAi, stem cells
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Mar 19th, 2009 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Featured, Technology
I've been thinking about H.L. Mencken lately. The reason is all the attention given to stem cells since the lifting of the funding ban.
Mencken had a genius for stating overlooked truths. One, which I'll paraphrase, is that we all know that the media get it wrong when they're covering our ...
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Tags: biotech, RNAi, stem cells
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Mar 11th, 2009 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Featured, Penny stocks, Technology
As you know, SC stock prices have gone up even in this period of deep market pessimism. Weekly, new and seemingly miraculous stem cell-related cures are coming to light. The message is getting across even in important nonscientific publications like The Economist.
A recent article was subtitled, "American attitudes to stem-cell ...
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Tags: stem cells, Technology
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Mar 4th, 2009 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Featured, Technology
As I predicted, the Obama administration is moving forward with policies that will directly benefit stem cell and thorium nuclear power stocks.
The administration's health care summit takes place this week. It is widely expected that the president will make official his pledge to lift the limitations on embryonic stem cell ...
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Tags: Nuclear Power, Obama, stem cells, Thorium
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Jan 19th, 2009 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Featured, Technology
The new year has arrived, and I'd like to take a little of your time to talk about the big picture. Then I'd like to talk a bit about nuclear energy technologies that are set to break through because of the new administration.
It is important that we understand that the ...
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Tags: alternative energy, nuclear energy, Obama
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Nov 18th, 2008 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
As you probably have heard, it was announced today that Jerry Yang, founder of Yahoo, had stepped down from his post as CEO. Although the stock is up about 10% today, the future of Yahoo is still very much up in the air. As I told my readers a few ...
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Tags: Android Phone, Cloud Software, Google Chrome, Jerry Yang, Web Mail, Windows Azure, Yahoo
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Nov 5th, 2008 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Investing Strategies, Technology
The robotics industry, as Bill Gates recently said, is the next PC industry. Investing in robotics today is comparable to buying companies like Apple, IBM or Intel in the early days of personal computers. Robotics will grow into a major industry, and it will grow fast.
Within 10 years, some roboticists ...
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Tags: Current Fluctuations, Intuitive Surgical, Intuitive trading, Investing In Robotics, Medical robotics Stock, Next PC Industry, Personal Utility Robots, Relatively big cap, The Robotics Industry
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