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2 Ways NVIDIA Is Beating the Competition

The company’s stock price skyrocketed 229% in 2016, fueled by growth from sales of its graphics processing units for its gaming segment. Some stocks move at the whims of investors, but much of NVIDIA’s stock-price rise can be attributed to the company’s healthy lead in the GPU market and the huge steps it’s taken in the self-driving vehicle market.

2 Ways NVIDIA Is Beating the Competition

The company’s stock price skyrocketed 229% in 2016, fueled by growth from sales of its graphics processing units for its gaming segment. Some stocks move at the whims of investors, but much of NVIDIA’s stock-price rise can be attributed to the company’s healthy lead in the GPU market and the huge steps it’s taken in the self-driving vehicle market.

Qualcomm’s Lucrative Licensing Model Jeopardized by FTC Scrutiny

Qualcomm Inc. built itself into the world’s biggest and most profitable smartphone chipmaker by using a simple formula: selling billions of dollars worth of semiconductors while raking in fat profits from licensing fees tied to the underlying technology. That lucrative model is under siege on a growing number of fronts — most recently this week when the U.S. Federal Trade Commission accused Qualcomm of using its dual businesses to thwart competition in the $100 billion market for phone chips.

What Happened in the Stock Market Today

Financial stocks gained ground thanks to improving earnings results from some of the world’s biggest investment banks, and that lifted the Financial Sector Select SPDR ETF higher by 1%. On the other hand, slipping gold prices produced a 5% decline for the Direxion Daily Gold Miners Bull 3X ETF Target shares fell 6% after the retailer posted an update on its latest business trends showing that revenue over the key holiday period dropped 4.9%.

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff : ‘Expect Us to Look at Anything That’s Exciting’

Salesforce.com hopes to double its annual revenue, despite already being the fastest growing enterprise software company of all time. Cloud computing company Salesforce.com spent about $5 billion on acquisitions in the past year and it will continue to look at any “exciting” opportunities out there, CEO Marc Benioff said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Tuesday morning.

SpaceX launches first rocket since explosion in Florida

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Saturday and placed a constellation of satellites in orbit, marking the company’s first launch since a fireball engulfed a similar rocket on a Florida launch pad more than four months ago. The two-stage rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 9:54 a.m. carrying a payload for Iridium Communications Inc., which is replacing its entire global network with 70 next-generation satellites.

Will Robots Usher In A Utopia Or Dystopia?

Peter Frase’s new book imagines multiple scenarios and lays out some touch choices we’re going to have to make. Will our future of robots and autonomous cars turn out to be a dystopia or a utopia? That’s the question that author Peter Frase grapples with in his new book, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism .

Walmart C-Suite Takes Another Hit as Uphill Battle with Amazon Rages On

Walmart Stores will reportedly promote several executives from its recently acquired Jet.com e-commerce business, as it continues a push to bolster its e-commerce offerings and compete with Amazon.com . According to an internal memo first obtained by Bloomberg, Walmart’s e-commerce CEO, Jet’s Marc Lore , announced that Jet’s chief revenue officer, Scott Hilton, will become the chief revenue officer for all of Walmart’s e-commerce operations.

Amazon’s Commitment to 100,000 New U.S. Jobs Highlights Its Relentless Growth Ambitions

While one big storyline out of this could be how the move puts the company in alignment with President-elect Donald Trump’s outspoken priority to create jobs in the U.S., there’s another narrative the announcement highlights — one that investors will appreciate: The big hiring spree reflects the aggressive growth the company believes it still has ahead of it. A quick overview of Amazon’s announcement about its expected job creation in the U.S. over the next 18 months highlights a fast-growing company without any plans to slow down.

The Personal Computer Market Plunged 5.7% in 2016

Market research company IDC announced on Jan. 11 that the category of products that it refers to as “traditional [personal computers]” dropped 1.5% year over year during the fourth quarter of 2016 and by 5.7% over the course of the entirety of 2016. IDC said that the first quarter of 2016 was “still constrained by high inventory, free Windows 10 upgrades, and difficult comparisons to commercial replacements in 2014 that were fueled by the end of support for Windows XP.”

Mobileye Outlines Why It Considers Itself an Autonomous Driving Leader

BMW, which announced at CES it plans to deploy 40 autonomous test cars in 2017 that feature Mobileye and Intel I talked with Mobileye Chief Communications Officer Dan Galves about how his company, the biggest supplier of vision processors for driver-assistance systems, is positioned in the budding autonomous driving hardware market. And what the company considers its main strengths relative to the competition.

How 8×8, Inc. Gained 27% in 2016

The provider of internet-based voice and communications services put together a remarkable financial record last year. 8X8 beat Wall Street’s earnings and sales estimates handily in each one of the year’s quarterly reports,citing strong organic revenue growth among larger customers along the way.

Just How Far-fetched Is Alibaba’s Goal to Create One Million Jobs in the U.S.?

U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates that trade with China already supports over 40 million jobs in the United States. Can Alibaba tack on another million? During a 40-minute meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower on Monday, Alibaba founder and executive chairman Jack Ma pledged to create one million jobs in the U.S. by helping small businesses sell products and services to China.

Why Apple Inc. Should Update the MacBook Pro Lineup in the Spring

Both the 13-inch and 15-inch variants saw significant overhauls, including new track pads, faster processors, brighter and more colorful displays, and even the inclusion of a new touch bar on higher end 13-inch and all 15-inch models. The machines represented nice steps forward for the MacBook Pro lineup, which hadn’t seen substantial updates for quite some time.

Alibaba’s Ma Meets With Trump to Talk About Creating Jobs

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Chairman Jack Ma met with Donald Trump on Monday to discuss how the online retailer could help create 1 million new U.S. jobs, keying in on one of the president-elect’s chief concerns amid fraught relations between China and the incoming administration. The Chinese e-commerce giant said the positions would be generated through Alibaba adding 1 million small and medium-sized U.S. businesses to its platforms, estimating that each one will hire a new person as a result of the added commerce.

Secretive Biotech Unicorn Moderna Unveils Pipeline, Financials

Moderna Therapeutics Inc., one of the best-funded private biotechnology companies in the U.S., unveiled its long-secret research and development pipeline on Monday, including experimental vaccines, cancer treatments and a cardiovascular therapy. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based startup has about $1.3 billion in cash on hand from investors, pharmaceutical partners and government grants, according to a presentation Monday at the J.P.Morgan Chase & Co.

How Shopify Could Become Profitable by the End of 2017

The company has beenpublicly traded for about two years, and while its growth rates have been truly impressive, its losses have continued to grow. How much longer will investors have to wait to see some earnings benefit from all of that growth? According to management in the most recent earnings callon Nov. 2., it could be as early as the end of 2017.

Intel Corporation PC Chief Talks Manufacturing Strategy

These chips, as would be expected, deliver improved performance and power efficiency relative to the company’s sixth-generation Core processor family. What is interesting about these chips is that they represent a third wave of products manufactured in the company’s 14-nanometer manufacturing technology, which was first used to build the company’s fifth-generation Core processors.

IBM Is Betting Its Future on AI

Since Ginni Rometty started as CEO in January of 2012, IBM has had 18 consecutive quarters of year-over-year declining revenue– essentially every quarter of her tenure. The stock has lost nearly 10% compared with a gain of 78% for the S&P 500 over the last five years.

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Toys from China, copper from Chile, T-shirts from Bangladesh, wine from New Zealand, coffee from Ethiopia, and tomatoes from Spain. In the early 1960s, world trade in merchandise was less than 20% of world economic output, or gross domestic product .