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May 25th, 2012 |
By Byron King |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
“It is tougher than diamond, but stretches like rubber. It is virtually invisible, conducts electricity and heat better than any copper wire and weighs next to nothing. Meet graphene — an astonishing new material which could revolutionize almost every part of our lives.” — The Daily Mail
Imagine winning the Nobel ...
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Tags: Commodities, Technology
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May 8th, 2012 |
By Ray Blanco |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
Last summer, I wrote about a new generation of display technology called OLED.
OLED display screens — short for organic light-emitting diodes — offer far greater energy efficiency, along with brilliant colors and durability.
I’ve seen video clips of mobile OLED screens being smashed with hammers and not looking the worse for ...
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Apr 27th, 2012 |
By Ray Blanco |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
You can no longer ignore the accelerating growth in the mobile market...
If you have been following me here in the Sleuth for awhile you already know that I think one of the best ways to profit from this growth is through small semiconductor companies. But if you have been following ...
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Tags: Penny stocks, Technology
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Apr 20th, 2012 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
Fascination with the effects of electricity on the body goes back — way back.
In the 1770s Italian physician and physicist Luigi Galvani shocked the world with the discovery that a spark could cause a dead frog’s legs to twitch.
In 1802, German chemist Johann Wilhelm Ritter furthered Galvani’s research into electrophysiology. ...
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Tags: Investing, Technology
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Apr 19th, 2012 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
In the last year, I’ve met several investors who have made many hundreds of thousands of dollars by investing relatively small amounts in the companies that I write about most regularly. They have done so by “trading the channel.” This means they buy a stock they want more of when ...
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Tags: Technology, trading
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Apr 17th, 2012 |
By Ray Blanco |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
We sometimes hear about diminishing returns in cancer research and development in the big pharmaceutical companies. They tell us, traditional drug discovery techniques have picked most of the low-hanging fruit in the field. Cancer cells are tricky devils, able to quickly mutate resistance to our best available therapies.
Revolutions in our ...
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Apr 13th, 2012 |
By Ray Blanco |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
Today, you can hold the equivalent of a decades-ago supercomputer in the palm of your hand. Thirty years ago, the ability to perform 1 billion floating-point calculations per second would have set you back a cool $15 million. Today, what sits in your pocket next to the car keys can ...
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Apr 11th, 2012 |
By Ray Blanco |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
As I drove home from the airport, my father called me to inform me that my grandfather had suffered a heart attack. So I made the trip across the state yesterday to spend some time with him at the hospital.
Grandfather is 82 now, and it is difficult to look at ...
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Tags: Biotechnology, Technology
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Apr 4th, 2012 |
By Greg Guenthner |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
Before you buy one share of Apple, I have two words for you: plastic shoes.
Crocs — the company behind those ugly, squishy sandals — was having a banner year in 2007. The stock was booming. At one point, sales projections forecast that every man, woman and child in the country ...
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Mar 30th, 2012 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
There is revolutionary work going on right now at a major university hospital in Texas...
This current work seems to have come up with a treatment that makes patients lose weight. How does it work?
It goes right after fat cells themselves...
The super-simple way to explain it is that this treatment cuts ...
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