Technology
The beryllium space is evolving. The “fourth element” is a key part of the high tech and aerospace economy — where there’s no real recession!
Think about that. Who buys beryllium?
The big airplane builders have fat order books. The rest of aerospace is still doing things that have to get done ...read more
Secrets Of An “Exponential” Portfolio…
Sep 27th, 2011 | By Jessica Comitto | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
Disruptive technologies will lead to explosive profits for early investors. The key is to find these technologies before they become an “investing trend.” Right now small start-ups are working on the technology that will shape the future. Whether in the computer, mobile, or biomedical field... being an early investor in ...read more
The UN Wants You to Consume Less Food and Exercise
Sep 22nd, 2011 | By Patrick Cox | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
A Bloomberg story about the meeting gleaned the following reasoning. “Productivity losses and medical treatment for cancer, diabetes and other noncontagious diseases will cost $47 trillion by 2030, according to the first study that quantifies the likely expense of leading causes of death.
The fascinating thing about the article as well ...read more
New Technologies Maturing “Fast and Furiously”
Sep 20th, 2011 | By Ray Blanco | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
It is really tough to handicap which advance in computer chip technology is going to ultimately win these days. There are just so many promising new technologies. It is an embarrassment of riches and an exciting time to be alive.
One company, for example, is working on developing next-generation computer memories ...read more
Solving the Bandwidth Crisis With a New Generation of Wireless Technology
Sep 15th, 2011 | By Ray Blanco | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
Wireless wide-area cellular networks were a voice-only phenomenon for many years. What they did was straightforward: enable people to talk on a mobile phone. Wireless didn’t support data, so other technologies such as WiFi, WiMAX and other wireless standards emerged to provide that service.
As a consequence, today, we have a ...read more
I Would Nearly Kill to Keep My Supply of this Company’s Product…
Sep 13th, 2011 | By Patrick Cox | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
I want to tell you a story. I’m going to give you a little bit of back story, a couple of threads about this. This CEO accidentally ended up owning a tobacco curing business. He didn’t like the tobacco company very much. All his family had worked in tobacco; he’d ...read more
In A Bipolar World: How To Make Fear and Panic Your Friend
Sep 8th, 2011 | By Jessica Comitto | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
“I get in the morning,” says Juan Enriquez, Chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy LLC. “I read the paper and I see all the bad things going on with the debt, deficits, wars and the economy. Then I step into a lab and see all the potential breakthroughs the scientists I ...read more
The Patent Arms Race
Sep 6th, 2011 | By Ray Blanco | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
A global patent arms buildup is taking place in the industry, with Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, Qualcomm and others all facing each other down in a game of high-stakes poker. A consortium of companies purchased Nortel’s patents earlier this year, for $4.5 billion. For the price of $12.5 billion, Google ...read more
This CEO’s Next Move Could Leave You with Generations of Wealth…
Sep 2nd, 2011 | By Patrick Cox | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
I didn’t initially recognize the name but as soon as he began talking about himself, it all came together. I remember when he invented the tobacco curing technology that dramatically reduces carcinogenic toxins. He financed that research with a small part of the fortune he had made as a major ...read more
Blockbuster Anti-Cancer Technology
Aug 30th, 2011 | By Patrick Cox | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
The science story with the biggest buzz recently was probably the successful treatment of three leukemia patients by scientists from the University of Pennsylvania.
Frankly, I find this absurd… given much bigger stories out there.
Nevertheless, the results of the leukemia treatment were extremely interesting. I'm going to talk about them today, ...read more
