These 3 Oil Stocks Are Up 20% This Year (And Could Have More Room to Run)
Oil prices have been on fire over the past year and recently topped $70 a barrel, which is the highest crude has been since late 2014. That rally in the oil market has helped fuel big-time gains in many oil stocks. Three that stand out are Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE: APC), Hess (NYSE: HES), and ConocoPhillips […]
3 Healthcare Stocks Growing Over 100%
Technology stocks are staples in growth portfolios because of their eye-popping revenue growth, but technology isn’t the only sector of the stock market that boasts fast-growing companies. For example, many healthcare stocks are growing at rates that Silicon Valley would envy. In fact, Foundation Medicine (NASDAQ: FMI), Exelixis Corp (NASDAQ: EXEL), and Teladoc (NYSE: TDOC) […]
4 Signs Google Wants to Bury GoPro
Three years ago, Alphabet’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google partnered with GoPro (NASDAQ: GPRO) to bring VR videos to YouTube via a platform called Jump. Filmmakers would use the platform to deliver videos from Odyssey, a 16-camera rig co-developed by Google and GoPro, to YouTube. Many GoPro investors saw the partnership as a catalyst for […]
Facebook Doubles Down on Virtual Reality
Since its $3 billion purchase of Oculus four years ago, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has been pouring more resources into its effort to get virtual reality to go mainstream. Clearly, those efforts haven’t paid off quite yet, but at its F8 conference last week, Facebook showed that it’s committed as ever to VR. The company’s much-anticipated […]
Southeast Asia-based mobile listings startup Carousell raises $85M
Carousell, the Singapore-based mobile listing service that operates across Southeast Asia, has pulled in an $85 million Series C fund as it seeks to strengthen its business among the region’s competitive e-commerce landscape before expanding globally. The round was co-led by existing investor Rakuten Ventures and EDBI, the corporate investment arm of Singapore’s Economic Development […]
Tesla starts delivering Model 3 cars outside the US
Tesla is still struggling to produce the Model 3, but there are signs that it’s improving. The EV brand has delivered its first Model 3 outside of the US, handing the keys (or rather, keycard) to a driver from Kingston, Ontario, Canada. There had been hints this was coming in March, when Tesla sent purchase […]
Harrowing surveillance video captures iPhone catching fire
Nobody likes to deal with a broken phone. But in some cases, a damaged phone can lead to something much more serious than a simple inconvenience. That’s apparently what happened at a phone repair shop in Las Vegas, Nevada, where an iPhone reportedly exploded and caught fire. The entire incident was captured on surveillance video, […]
NASA and Uber are getting serious about flying cars
Flying cars may not be unique to science fiction for much longer. Uber Technologies Inc., the company behind the popular car service app, is once again partnering with NASA, and this time, it’s supplying information to the agency so that it can simulate the flight of a small passenger-carrying aircraft within the airspace of Dallas […]
Car club hopes to reopen historic Eamon’s gas station as museum next year
A historical society and car club in High River, Alta., are hoping to raise more funds to finish restoring a classic local landmark. “The older folks like myself, it brings us back to when we were young kids and took our cars to service stations similar to this,” said Ray Bouillet, president of the Eamon’s […]
Amidst Tofino’s housing crisis, First Nation builds homes for desperate workers
21 newly built shipping container homes will be available for rent on Tla-o-qui-aht land this summer How bad is Tofino’s housing crunch? Just the other day, Mayor Josie Osborne met a young man who said he’s essentially been living in a hammock for the last year. “He’s got it all worked out and he seems […]