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Investing can often seem more complicated than it needs to be. With a financial services industry worth billions of dollars, that may be by design, but investors new and old can find success with a few basic rules. The most important of those is compound interest. Thanks to this simple piece of math, returns will […]

T-Mobile’s CEO John Legere sports a t-shirt with his company’s logo. Image source: T-Mobile. T-Mobile (NASDAQ:TMUS) is attracting both customers and investors. Shares of the telecom giant have risen nearly 9% year-to-date as the nation’s third-largest wireless carrier continues to add subscribers at a healthy rate. Hedge fund managers have taken note: D.E. Shaw, Citadel, and […]Read More

Image source: Ambarella Inc. Ambarella Inc. (NASDAQ:AMBA) is set to release fiscal first-quarter 2017 results Thursday, June 2, 2016, after the market close. With shares down 25% year to date as of this writing, the market will be watching closely for signs that the video processing chip specialist’s long-term growth story remains intact. But what, exactly, […]Read More

You gotta spend money to make money, right? Well, Sprint (NYSE:S) might have some trouble making money going forward if that saying rings true. Management announced guidance for its capital expenditures for the rest of the year, and it came in well below analysts expectations. Sprint plans to spend just $3 billion building out its […]

One is a diversified veteran in the semiconductor market. The other, a tightly focused relative newcomer. Would either Texas Instruments (NASDAQ:TXN) or InvenSense (NYSE:INVN) make any sense in your  investment portfolio? Let’s have a look. By the numbers InvenSense’s annual revenue has nearly quadrupled over the last five years. Meanwhile, Texas Instruments’ sales decreased by […]Read More

 Image source: Intel. Last week, Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) snatched up a computer vision (CV) company called Itseez, Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Computer vision is a burgeoning technology in which computers use cameras to view their surroundings, then analyze what they’ve seen and make decisions based on it.  The purchase is a clear sign that Intel is […]Read More

Refusing to spend any money on advertising yet, electric-car maker Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) has historically relied heavily on word-of-mouth marketing and test drives to increase sales. While these continue to be the company’s primary means for demand generation, Tesla began testing a way to accelerate word-of-mouth marketing in 2015: a referral program. Announcing its fourth […]

Image source: Apple. Ever since 2009, Apple‘s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone product cycles have been on a predictable cadence. Every other year, the company redesigns the device and introduces a new industrial design. In between every other year, Apple introduces more incremental features or spec bumps within the same overall chassis. It’s essentially as if Apple adopted Intel‘s […]Read More

LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) stock saw a notable jump on Tuesday, rising 4%. There was no particular reason for the move. However, it adds to the stock’s ongoing rise since its huge 44% one-day decline in February, when LinkedIn reported worse-than-expected full-year guidance; shares are up about 25% since this big sell-off. Has the social network’s stock […]Read More

Seadrill, is fighting for less and less work in the ongoing downturn.The good news is, its costs are falling, and debtors have been amenable to negotiations so far.  When Seadrill Ltd (NYSE:SDRL) reported financial and operating results on May 26, the numbers came in pretty much as expected, with revenue and profits sharply lower, while the debt […]Read More

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