Can Been-There Biotech Entrepreneur Arie Belldegrun Do It Yet Again?
Arie Belldegrun is one of the most successful biotech entrepreneurs out there. After selling Agensys, a monoclonal antibodies biotech, to Astellas for $537 million in 2007, he co-founded and later sold Cougar Biotechnology to Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) for $1 billion in 2011. Then, as if that weren’t enough, he struck biotech gold when […]
Smartwatch Sales to Double in 5 Years. Here’s the One Stock to Buy
The market for smartwatches doesn’t appear to be slowing down anytime soon. Research analysts at IDC say the global market for wearable devices is expected to grow 15.1% in 2018, hitting a total of 132.9 million smartwatches, fitness trackers, and watchbands, and that it should deliver compounded annual growth rates of more than 13% over […]
What’s Going on With Chevron’s Strategic Plan?
For the past few years, Chevron’s (NYSE: CVX) management had one goal: Be able to pay for its dividend with cash in 2017. Just about every decision management made during that time was centered around that goal, even if it was to the detriment of future investments. Well, thanks to some serious changes to its […]
Pipeline Stocks and American Steel Tariffs: What Investors Need to Know
Last month the United States decided to impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. Wall Street generally considered that to be a boon for American industry, and initially sent shares of steel stocks higher. But if you listened closely enough to the roaring cheers from the crowd it was possible to discern the distinct sound […]
There’s a $10 million race to build you a robot avatar by 2021
AUSTIN — Four years from now, physical attendance at SXSW could be optional for those who choose to send a sci-fi-style avatar in their place. That vision closed out Monday’s programming at the festival, as sold in a talk onstage by XPrize Foundation founder Peter Diamandis announcing the latest in a series of XPrize competitions, […]
Meet the HoneyBot, a decoy robot designed to trick hackers
Bosses don’t usually approve of their employees roaming around, pretending to work. But that’s exactly what a new robot named the HoneyBot is designed to do. Developed by engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the HoneyBot is a four-wheeled decoy robot designed to bait hackers, and then fool them into thinking they’ve successfully exploited […]
Mind-reading AlterEgo headset means never talking out loud to Alexa again
Speaking to voice assistants, no matter how helpful they can be, is still not something the majority of us do on a daily basis. Especially in public. What if you could “speak” to a voice assistant only by thinking about the words you want to say? Considerably less embarrassing. right? That’s the basic concept behind […]
YouTube’s live TV service now streams in Firefox
YouTube TV debuted in a limited number of markets and could only be accessed through Chrome. The video-sharing platform is making it easier and easier to access, though: after launching it in additional locations and rolling it out to Apple TV, YouTube is now making it possible to access its live TV service on Firefox. […]
Sensory kits for P.E.I. children with autism builds connection with library
Families who have children with autism now have a new place to go for support on P.E.I. Their library cards can now be used to take home what are called sensory kits. The kits contain a collection of small toys, designed to engage and calm children on the autistic spectrum. “It gives families the opportunity […]
Canada adds 32,000 jobs in March, mostly full-time work
Surge in full-time work slightly offset by loss of part time jobs Canada’s economy added 32,000 new jobs in March, but the jobless rate remained steady at 5.8 per cent. Economists had been expecting Statistics Canada to announce around 20,000 new jobs. Despite the increase in jobs, the unemployment rate stayed the same because about […]