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Category: Science / Technology
Here’s Why Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Plunged 59.8% in 2016
That was a far worse decline than the 19% loss by the biotech sector, in general, as measured by the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF While Alnylam’s share price was weak through the first nine months of the year, investors can mostly chalk that up to the general sell-off in biotech. However, the company’s stock was decimated in October after the company reported a major clinical setback.
Will Bots Finally Start To Grow Up In 2017?
The bots we saw in 2016 were tantalizing, but they’ll need another few years to begin to live up to expectations. Last year was big for bots, as the popular definition of the software application shifted in the public’s understanding.
US Trade Associations and ISPs Petition FCC to Reconsider New Privacy Rules
On January 3, several US trade associations and internet service providers submitted petitions requesting that the Federal Communications Commission reconsider its broadband privacy rules mandating consumer opt-in before using data for marketing purposes. Among those groups submitting petitions are the United States Telecom Association, NCTA – Internet and Television Association, Competitive Carriers Association, Association of National Advertisers, American Association of Advertising Agencies, American Advertising Federation, Data & Marketing Association, Interactive Advertising Bureau, and Network Advertising Initiative.
Officials: Foreign government may be behind Anthem data breach
A foreign government may have been behind a cyber breach of health insurance company Anthem that compromised the records of more than 78 million consumers, investigators said Friday. They declined to identify the hackers or the foreign government.
Why Amazon.com, Inc. Shares Gained 11% in 2016
If you bought Amazon shares at the 52-week lows in early February and sold them at the October peak, you would have seen a staggering 79% return in just eight months. And if you’re that lucky, I would advise you to stock up on lottery tickets, stat .
U.S. Claims Thousands of D-Link Users Exposed to Hacking
A U.S. consumer protection watchdog sued a Taiwan-based maker of home-networking equipment over claims that lax security left its products vulnerable to hackers. The Federal Trade Commission alleged that D-Link Corp. and a U.S. unit failed to secure their routers and web cameras, exposing thousands of American consumers to targeted online security breaches.
Apple says it had its biggest day in App Store history, with sales of …
An image provided by Apple of apps available on the company’s App Store. On Thursday, Apple said it sold $240 million in App Store purchases on New Year’s Day, making it the biggest day in App Store sales history.
Alexa Could Be Amazon’s “Fourth Pillar”
All three have been instrumental to Amazon’s success over the past decade-plus and Bezos wrote, “I assure you that we also remain hard at work on finding a fourth [pillar].” It’s been two years since Amazon unveiled the Echo, which can serve as a hub for other smart-home devices like thermostats and lightbulbs, and its functionality has been extended through third-party “skills,” which function like voice-controlled apps.
3 Reasons Geron Corporation Plunged 57% in 2016
The impetus for the fall can be traced to three catalysts. , it provided an update on the company’s two ongoing mid-stage studies, IMbark and IMerge.
Top Takeaways From CES 2017: Nvidia Struts Its Stuff While Intel and Samsung Look for Growth
Intel gave a first-hand look at VR’s potential and Samsung added to its smart home bet, but Nvidia stole the show by announcing impressive new partnerships and initiatives. In their own ways, Intel and Samsung’s big news events on CES 2017’s press day carried with them important subtexts about where growth in their largest businesses has flattened, and how the companies are looking to respond.
Alibaba Sues Sellers of Fake Swarovski Watches in Crackdown
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. sued two vendors it said used the company’s Taobao website to sell counterfeit Swarovski watches, just weeks after the site was labeled a haven for knockoffs by U.S. regulators. The lawsuit is the first legal action taken by an e-commerce site in China against sellers of counterfeit goods and Alibaba seeks 1.4 million yuan in damages, the company said Wednesday in a statement.
Intel handed out barf bags for its event at CES
Attendees at tech trade shows are accustomed to getting plied with all sorts of shwag, but those who attended Intel’s event on Wednesday got something different: barf bags. to attendees at its press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada – a precaution in case audience members got sick during the virtual reality experience.
Alibaba cracks down on counterfeiters on their platform
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has sued two vendors for selling counterfeit goods, weeks after being blacklisted by a US industry watchdog. The move comes just two weeks after the company was put back onto the US’s “notorious markets” list over failing to curb the sale of counterfeit goods.
7 Signs Amazon’s Best Days Are Ahead of It
The company has come to dominate the retail industry and is rapidly disrupting many other areas of the global economy. Yet with its stock up several hundred times in value since its 1997 IPO, you’d be excused for thinking Amazon’s days of turbocharged growth are long gone.
Broadband Carriers Urge FCC To Roll Back New Privacy Rules
Broadband carriers are urging the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider its stringent new privacy rules, which require carriers to obtain consumers’ opt-in consent before drawing on their Web-surfing data for ad targeting. In a petition filed Monday, the trade group US Telecom Association argues that carriers shouldn’t be subject to tougher rules than other Web companies — like search engines and social networking services.
China’s Sogou Targets $5 Billion IPO to Chase Rival Baidu
China’s third-biggest search engine expects to hold a U.S. initial public offering at a valuation of as much as $5 billion as it raises cash to close the gap with leader Baidu Inc. in the mobile market. Sogou, whose name means “search dog,” plans to sell about 10 percent of its shares in an IPO that will probably be held this year, Chief Executive Officer Wang Xiaochuan said in an interview.
Automation Trepidation
Decades from now, when historians look back on 2016, they’ll of course take note of the momentous votes on both sides of the Atlantic. But if they’re interested in symbolism, they might find that an even more profound turning point occurred over the English countryside in early December, when a little flying robot buzzed though the air, alighted on a lawn and gently deposited a package for a happy customer.
Wal-Mart Stock History: How the Worlds Biggest Retailer Created So Much Wealth for Investors
Today, it generates almost $500 billion of sales through 11,500 locations and a large online presence. More than 260 million customers passed through Wal-Mart’s retailing doors last year.
Four Out-Of-This-World Predictions For The Space Industry In 2017
Big things are happening in space travel and tech, with new startups mushrooming every day. Here are four trends to watch.
US states, leery of Russia malware, re-examine cybersecurity
Several states around the country on Saturday asked cybersecurity experts to re-examine state and utility networks after a Vermont utility’s laptop was found to contain malware U.S. officials say is linked to Russian hackers. The Burlington Electric Department, one of Vermont’s two largest electric utilities, confirmed Friday it had found on one of its laptops the malware code used in Grizzly Steppe, the name the U.S. government has given to malicious cyber activity by Russian civilian and military intelligence services.
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Can the memory chip specialist build on this success with another fantastic performance in 2017? First, I have already taken a look at the potential downside for us Micron investors. In short, the risks involved in owning Micron next year are significant but also limited.
2016’s Best CEOs
The best chief executive officers are an often-underrated source of competitive advantage. A strong leader with the vision to steer a company safely through rapidly changing business conditions can many times be the difference between a business’ success and failure.
How does something from Rancho Cucamonga make it to Mars and Pluto?
The small business, with about 40 employees, provides the aerospace and medical industries with ultra-precision components and assemblies in glass, ceramic and metal materials. The family-run Mindrum Precision is three generations deep and celebrated 60 years in 2016.
5 Things Micron’s Management Wants You to Know
The company’s first-quarter results beat expectations, and its guidance for the second quarter foretells a return to exceptional profitability. While Micron’s first-quarter numbers give investors a good idea of where the company stands, management provided additional information during the earnings conference call.
2 Things to Watch From Qualcomm Inc. in 2017
Although the company’s stock price is up about 34% year to date , its financial results in its most recent fiscal year were uninspiring. Qualcomm closed its fiscal year on Sept.
Nvidia’s Savvy Capital Return Efforts
This program intended to return cash to shareholders through regular dividends and share repurchases. In November 2012, Nvidia announced its first quarterly dividend of $0.075 per share.Based on the closing price on the day of the announcement, this represented an annual dividend yield of 2.4% — a healthy yield for a nimble, relatively small,tech company with above average growth prospects.
GNC’s Stock Is Unhealthy and Unlikely to Improve for a While
The troubled, nutritional retailer closed all its bricks-and-mortar locations for a day in an effort to revamp its pricing, but its methods seem misguided. Health and nutritional store GNC may be well known for selling protein powders to help weight lifters bulk up, but there’s one other thing the company desperately needs to boost : its stock.
Nvidia Falls as Citron Research Says Stock – Belongs at $90′
Shares of graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. fell the most in almost month after an investment newsletter run by activist short seller Andrew Left said the stock “belongs at $90.” Nvidia has more than tripled this year to $117.32 at Tuesday’s close.
Why Twilio, Northern Dynasty Minerals, and Ionis Pharmaceuticals Slumped Today
The stock market performed poorly on Wednesday, coasting into the end of what has been a strong year for most major market benchmarks. Popular stock market indexes were down as much as 1% on the day, and the Dow Jones Industrials fell by triple digits, getting further away from the much-watched 20,000 level.
Holiday Phone Activations Bode Well for Apple’s iPhone 7-Plus Sales
But the numbers also suggest Apple’s smartphone sales mix improved for the better. Flurry, which relies on anonymized usage data from the thousands of mobile apps connected to its analytics tools, reports Apple products accounted for 44% of the smartphone and tablet activations it recorded from December 19 to December 25. That’s down from the 49.1% reported for the same week a year ago .
Amazon Voted Best Stock for 2017 by Evercore
Amazon is Evercore’s top stock pick for the upcoming year, mainly due to its position in the data science field. Shares of Amazon were slightly higher in late morning trading on Wednesday, after Evercore named the company its top stock pick for 2017, in a note released earlier today.
Why Apple Inc.’s Next iPad Pro Won’t Be Delayed Due to Chip Yields
“TSMC is scheduled to start making Apple’s A10X chips for the next-generation iPad series slated for launch in March 2017,” the report says. DigiTimes , citing industry sources, explains that “unsatisfactory yields for the foundry’s 10nm process could disrupt the schedule.”
8i Is Trying To Bring Virtual Reality Out Of The Gaming World
Imagine if you could climb Mount Everest and go on stage at a Beyonce concert with your friends…before breakfast. Linc Gasking and his team of visual effects experts at 8i thinks they can make holograms of humans so real, that VR will go mainstream and they’ll alter the human experience forever.
China Invites Investors, Including Foreigners, Into Space Effort
China is looking to draw private investors, including those from outside the country, into its aerospace program to supplement funding from the government for commercial satellite launches. Investment is welcome for commercial rocket development, satellite research, manufacturing and for applying aerospace technologies to public welfare, Wu Yanhua, vice minister of China National Space Administration, said at a press briefing in Beijing on Tuesday.
Why Apple Is the Most Perfect Investment for 2017
In other words, recommending Apple requires some work and basic understanding of potential catalysts. Jumping into Apple ahead of the New Year requires a reflection on the year that has been, however.
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Staying relevant through constant innovation and disruption is more important in the tech industry than in arguably any other sector. By investing heavily in research and development , these companies are making expensive bets on the future and what technology and trends will lead it — along with their own sales and profits.
SpaceX Mission Delay Could Cost NASA Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
Earlier this year, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration signed a contract hiring Russia’s Roscosmos to transport six American astronauts to the International Space Station for $81.7 million per head . The two-year contract was valued at $490 million — 15% more than the preceding contract.
Air-Launched Orbital Rockets: Orbital ATK Shows Virgin Galactic How It’s Done
For years, Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has been trying to invent a better way to launch rockets into space. Instead of launching from Earth in a fiery blast and a cloud of dust, Virgin Galactic aims to carry a “SpaceShipTwo” spaceship into the stratosphere, strapped to the belly of a “WhiteKnightTwo” mothership — then detach the former from the latter, and rocket to 62 miles above sea level.
Rising Rates May Hurt Small-Cap Biotech ETF Valuations
The Federal Reserve has hiked interest rates for the second time in a decade and plans to raise rates three more times next year. With higher interest rates, investors may find small-cap biotechnology exchange traded funds that track companies banking on a breakthrough drug less appealing.