Mike Markkula, one of Apple's earliest investors, was won over by the vision of founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. With his marketing knowledge and Wall Street connections, he helped take the Apple computer from garage-bound prototype to household mainstay.
Mike Markkula, one of Apple's earliest investors, was won over by the vision of founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. With his marketing knowledge and Wall Street connections, he helped take the Apple computer from garage-bound prototype to household mainstay.
Visiting teams have won two of 24 last-16 ties, so it is no surprise players needing post-Six Nations rest skip trips The odds on multiple away wins in this weekend’s Champions Cup last 16 are not terribly good. Since the single-leg concept was born three years ago there have been 24 matches, with the hosts losing only two. If that strike rate alters significantly this time it will certainly confo...
Visiting teams have won two of 24 last-16 ties, so it is no surprise players needing post-Six Nations rest skip trips The odds on multiple away wins in this weekend’s Champions Cup last 16 are not terribly good. Since the single-leg concept was born three years ago there have been 24 matches, with the hosts losing only two. If that strike rate alters significantly this time it will certainly confound the bookmakers. Bordeaux Bègles, the defending champions, have even been quoted at 1-100 to beat Leicester on Sunday, a remarkable price for a two-horse race. It might be slightly different if the Tigers were at full strength but, as the bookies are keenly aware, that is very much not the case with, among others, Ollie Chessum, Joe Heyes and Nicky Smith all nonrunners. Continue reading...
The infrastructure is crumbling and the government shaky, but memories exist of an industry that once thrived off Venezuela’s vast reserves of crude – and could do again, despite the climate crisis At Campo Boscán, a vast complex in western Venezuela , the drills, pumps and pipelines that extract crude oil operate amid decay: roads are broken, weeds grow everywhere and many wells run inside metal ...
The infrastructure is crumbling and the government shaky, but memories exist of an industry that once thrived off Venezuela’s vast reserves of crude – and could do again, despite the climate crisis At Campo Boscán, a vast complex in western Venezuela , the drills, pumps and pipelines that extract crude oil operate amid decay: roads are broken, weeds grow everywhere and many wells run inside metal cages to prevent theft. Albenis Merchán, a drilling technician with 35 years’ experience, recalls better times as he drives his pickup through the desolate landscape. “We used to receive maintenance and safety training all the time. Supplies and spare parts were never lacking. Many things need to improve here to tap the full potential of this area,” he says. Continue reading...
Boeing (BA) has received quite a bit of attention from Zacks.com users lately. Therefore, it is wise to be aware of the facts that can impact the stock's prospects.
Boeing (BA) has received quite a bit of attention from Zacks.com users lately. Therefore, it is wise to be aware of the facts that can impact the stock's prospects.
Li Auto (LI) has received quite a bit of attention from Zacks.com users lately. Therefore, it is wise to be aware of the facts that can impact the stock's prospects.
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AMAT and LRCX still look like high‑conviction ways to play the AI and advanced‑node capex cycle, but they sit firmly in “quality growth at a premium” territory rather than obvious bargains.
AMAT and LRCX still look like high‑conviction ways to play the AI and advanced‑node capex cycle, but they sit firmly in “quality growth at a premium” territory rather than obvious bargains.
Welcome to the Brussels Edition. I’m Suzanne Lynch, Bloomberg’s Brussels bureau chief, bringing you the latest from the EU each weekday. Make sure you’re signed up . It’s a year since President Donald Trump — armed with a giant poster in the White House Rose Garden — unveiled the most significant tariffs on US trading partners in more than a century. A year on from so-called Liberation Day, Europe...
Welcome to the Brussels Edition. I’m Suzanne Lynch, Bloomberg’s Brussels bureau chief, bringing you the latest from the EU each weekday. Make sure you’re signed up . It’s a year since President Donald Trump — armed with a giant poster in the White House Rose Garden — unveiled the most significant tariffs on US trading partners in more than a century. A year on from so-called Liberation Day, Europe is still absorbing the impact. Though the European Commission stands by the trade deal it struck with Trump in Scotland last July — which locked in a 15% ceiling rate on most EU goods in exchange for eliminating duties on many US products — residual issues remain. Chief among them is concern about levies on steel and aluminum. EU metal exports into the US face a 50% tariff, with a host of derivative products made from steel and aluminum also affected. When the European Parliament approved the EU-US trade deal last month, lawmakers added a provision that said tariff reductions on the US would only take effect if metals duties were reduced. There were signs overnight that the US is preparing a tiered system for steel and aluminum products in an attempt to simplify a process for companies and help keep a lid on prices for consumers.This could see some products charged a lower 25% rate and could benefit some European exporters, which had already been struggling with oversupply in the market. But on the flip side, the US is considering new tariffs on pharmaceutical companies that haven’t already struck deals with the US. With trade tensions lingering, the Commission said it is discussing with the US plans to set up a “dialog” on digital technologies and markets. Despite such openings, the EU’s executive arm insists the bloc’s tech regulation is not up for negotiation. That’s clearly a point of contention. A senior US official warned this week that EU tech rules — particularly the Digital Markets Act, or DMA — is central to ongoing trade discussions. Speaking during a visit to B...
Big names in crypto, payments and cloud infrastructure are racing to build the financial plumbing for a world in which AI agents — not humans — handle transactions on the internet. Coinbase Global Inc. , Cloudflare Inc. and Stripe are forming a nonprofit foundation to govern x402, an open-source protocol that lets software make instant payments without human involvement — one of at least two compe...
Big names in crypto, payments and cloud infrastructure are racing to build the financial plumbing for a world in which AI agents — not humans — handle transactions on the internet. Coinbase Global Inc. , Cloudflare Inc. and Stripe are forming a nonprofit foundation to govern x402, an open-source protocol that lets software make instant payments without human involvement — one of at least two competing standards vying to become the default rails for machine-to-machine commerce. An additional 20 companies are joining the foundation as members, including Microsoft Corp ., Alphabet Inc.’s Google , Amazon Web Services, American Express Co. , and crypto companies like Circle Internet Group Inc. , and Solana Foundation . The foundation will be housed under the Linux Foundation , a nonprofit organization that has been long supporting the development of open source software, most notably the Linux kernel. “By moving the x402 protocol under the stewardship of the Linux Foundation, we are ensuring that the future of agentic commerce remains neutral, interoperable, and accessible to everyone,” Stephanie Cohen , chief strategy officer at Cloudflare, said in a statement Thursday. The move is the latest in a rapid-fire sequence of bets across the payments and crypto industries on the idea that autonomous software programs will soon need to pay for data, computing power and services millions of times a day — and that today’s payment systems, built for people with credit cards, aren’t designed to handle it. Right now, when a consumer buys something online, the payment passes through a chain of intermediaries — the merchant’s bank, the card network, the card-issuing bank — each taking a cut of the transaction. The protocol is named after a piece of the internet’s original architecture that sat dormant for three decades. When engineers wrote the rules for how computers communicate, they set aside a status code — 402, “Payment Required” — for a future in which machines could pay for th...
A Cupertino-based startup founded by a former Apple Face ID engineer has built the new standard for physical security — and today announced a $50 million raise to bring it to the world.
A Cupertino-based startup founded by a former Apple Face ID engineer has built the new standard for physical security — and today announced a $50 million raise to bring it to the world.
Precisely (the "Company"), a global data integrity provider backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, "Clearlake"), TA Associates, Insight Partners, and Partners Group, among other institutional investors, today announced the appointment of Walid Abu-Hadba as Chief Executive Officer ("CEO"), effective immediately. Mr. Abu-Hadba succeeds Josh Rogers, who will continue t...
Precisely (the "Company"), a global data integrity provider backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, "Clearlake"), TA Associates, Insight Partners, and Partners Group, among other institutional investors, today announced the appointment of Walid Abu-Hadba as Chief Executive Officer ("CEO"), effective immediately. Mr. Abu-Hadba succeeds Josh Rogers, who will continue to serve in an advisory capacity as Vice Chairman to ensure a seamless leadership transition.
One of the year's most intriguing games was developed using software first released 40 years ago. Transfer Point looks and plays like a classic Mac point-and-click adventure game, and there's a very good reason for that: It was developed using World Builder, a game creation tool first released in 1986 that has since become freeware. "The initial motivation was wanting to share this tool that was r...
One of the year's most intriguing games was developed using software first released 40 years ago. Transfer Point looks and plays like a classic Mac point-and-click adventure game, and there's a very good reason for that: It was developed using World Builder, a game creation tool first released in 1986 that has since become freeware. "The initial motivation was wanting to share this tool that was really innovative at the time, and meant a lot to me as a kid," says developer Mike Piontek. "But the plan was to spend a few weeks on it, and I ended up doing it for over a year." Piontek first became obsessed with adventure games as a kid, and a l … Read the full story at The Verge.
Your Social Security benefits won't cover all your expenses in retirement, but understanding how the program works and what levers you have to influence your checks can help you stretch your savings further. For married couples, one of the most important things they can do is to coordinate their claiming strategy. If your spouse decides to sign up before you, you need to know how that will affect ...
Your Social Security benefits won't cover all your expenses in retirement, but understanding how the program works and what levers you have to influence your checks can help you stretch your savings further. For married couples, one of the most important things they can do is to coordinate their claiming strategy. If your spouse decides to sign up before you, you need to know how that will affect your future benefits, so you can estimate how much of your retirement expenses you'll have to pay on your own. The answer depends on which kind of benefit(s) each of you plans to claim over the long term. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO, April 02, 2026--Upwind, the leader in runtime-first cloud security, today announced that Joe Sullivan has joined the company as a Strategic Advisor. Sullivan is one of the most decorated and widely recognized security leaders in the technology industry, having served as the first Chief Security Officer at Facebook, Uber, and Cloudflare, and as the first federal prosecutor in Silicon...
SAN FRANCISCO, April 02, 2026--Upwind, the leader in runtime-first cloud security, today announced that Joe Sullivan has joined the company as a Strategic Advisor. Sullivan is one of the most decorated and widely recognized security leaders in the technology industry, having served as the first Chief Security Officer at Facebook, Uber, and Cloudflare, and as the first federal prosecutor in Silicon Valley dedicated full-time to prosecuting cybercrime. His appointment reflects the significance of
While Hong Kong slept, Leo Li was buying Google. In the early hours of March 25, Li bought a slug of digital tokens that represent about 6,940 shares of Alphabet Google’s corporate parent. On this night, and most others, Li monitors the market from his Hong Kong home office, where he manages a traditional stock portfolio alongside a $6 million basket of tokens linked to shares of the Magnificent S...
While Hong Kong slept, Leo Li was buying Google. In the early hours of March 25, Li bought a slug of digital tokens that represent about 6,940 shares of Alphabet Google’s corporate parent. On this night, and most others, Li monitors the market from his Hong Kong home office, where he manages a traditional stock portfolio alongside a $6 million basket of tokens linked to shares of the Magnificent Seven and a gold fund.
JHVEPhoto/iStock Editorial via Getty Images From Underdog To A Leader I turned bullish on Intel Corporation ( INTC ) stock back in January 2025 , when most investors and analysts were skeptical about the firm's prospects. I should say they were doubtful for a very good reason: Intel has managed to lose its moat to rivals, specifically Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD ), and there was little hope that ...
JHVEPhoto/iStock Editorial via Getty Images From Underdog To A Leader I turned bullish on Intel Corporation ( INTC ) stock back in January 2025 , when most investors and analysts were skeptical about the firm's prospects. I should say they were doubtful for a very good reason: Intel has managed to lose its moat to rivals, specifically Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD ), and there was little hope that years of unprofitable foundry business would stop, and the earnings would reverse to the positive side. But I saw some tailwinds on the horizon, and my bullish thesis since then has fully played out as INTC has managed to gain over 150% - my call for the prioritization of longer-term thinking worked out. Seeking Alpha, my January 2025 article on INTC I believe that INTC is still a Buy because we haven't even seen the monetization of the AI-driven CPU demand - everyone was talking about GPUs throughout the past 5-7 years, but CPUs are currently gaining traction with the LLMs shifting from training to inference and orchestration that are heavily CPU-intensive in nature. We've already seen price hikes from the company, based on some sources, which is going to let INTC reverse earnings at a faster-than-initially-anticipated pace, in my view. Also, I like the ongoing cost-cutting and key management targets for the next quarters - Intel should eventually fix its operating leverage story, and if so, the current valuation doesn't look as stretched as it might seem at first glance. Based on all this, I'm reiterating my Buy rating on INTC. Why Do I Think So? The stock hasn't moved much since the publication of the Q4 2025 results in late January. Intel had $13.67 billion in sales (-4.1% YoY) and $0.15 in adjusted EPS for the quarter, beating both headline consensus figures, but then most analysts decided to downgrade their estimates for the upcoming Q1 report, according to Seeking Alpha data . Seeking Alpha, INTC The market isn't cheering the short-term results from Intel Corporation...
JHVEPhoto/iStock Editorial via Getty Images From Underdog To A Leader I turned bullish on Intel Corporation ( INTC ) stock back in January 2025 , when most investors and analysts were skeptical about the firm's prospects. I should say they were doubtful for a very good reason: Intel has managed to lose its moat to rivals, specifically Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD ), and there was little hope that ...
JHVEPhoto/iStock Editorial via Getty Images From Underdog To A Leader I turned bullish on Intel Corporation ( INTC ) stock back in January 2025 , when most investors and analysts were skeptical about the firm's prospects. I should say they were doubtful for a very good reason: Intel has managed to lose its moat to rivals, specifically Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD ), and there was little hope that years of unprofitable foundry business would stop, and the earnings would reverse to the positive side. But I saw some tailwinds on the horizon, and my bullish thesis since then has fully played out as INTC has managed to gain over 150% - my call for the prioritization of longer-term thinking worked out. Seeking Alpha, my January 2025 article on INTC I believe that INTC is still a Buy because we haven't even seen the monetization of the AI-driven CPU demand - everyone was talking about GPUs throughout the past 5-7 years, but CPUs are currently gaining traction with the LLMs shifting from training to inference and orchestration that are heavily CPU-intensive in nature. We've already seen price hikes from the company, based on some sources, which is going to let INTC reverse earnings at a faster-than-initially-anticipated pace, in my view. Also, I like the ongoing cost-cutting and key management targets for the next quarters - Intel should eventually fix its operating leverage story, and if so, the current valuation doesn't look as stretched as it might seem at first glance. Based on all this, I'm reiterating my Buy rating on INTC. Why Do I Think So? The stock hasn't moved much since the publication of the Q4 2025 results in late January. Intel had $13.67 billion in sales (-4.1% YoY) and $0.15 in adjusted EPS for the quarter, beating both headline consensus figures, but then most analysts decided to downgrade their estimates for the upcoming Q1 report, according to Seeking Alpha data . Seeking Alpha, INTC The market isn't cheering the short-term results from Intel Corporation...