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Jan 16, 2025 | 
msn.com | Jeffrey Funk |Gary Smith
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
businessandamerica.com | Jeffrey Funk |Gary Smith
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
morningstar.com | Jeffrey Funk |Gary Smith
By Jeffrey Funk and Gary Smith The U.S. government buying bitcoin at inflated prices would do nothing to pay off America's debt Is there a bigger fool than the federal government? Who will the government sell trillions of dollars of bitcoin to? There is an apocryphal story of an investor, "Sam," who became enamored of a lightly traded stock.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Jeffrey Funk
4 hours agoBillionaires' Wealth Doubles to $14T in 10 Years: UBSBillionaires have seen their combined wealth shoot up 121 percent over the past decade to $14 trillion, Swiss bank UBS said Thursday, with tech …6 hours agoiOS 18.2: Here are Apple’s full release notes on what’s newApple today released what is likely the final beta of iOS 18.2 to developer and public beta testers. Along with this release, Apple has also published the full release notes of iOS 18.2 for the first time.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Jeffrey Funk
2 hours agoIntel has announced that CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired, effective December 1, and stepped down from the company’s board of directors. Intel execs David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus have been named interim co-CEOs. Zinsner is Intel’s CFO, while Holthaus is GM of Intel’s client computing …
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
americanaffairsjournal.org | Jeffrey Funk
Financial losses for today’s start-ups are much more common than they were decades ago, and the losses are much bigger. VCs are making back less from their initial investments than at any point since the global financial crisis of 2007–9. According to a study by Jay Ritter, only 22 percent of start-ups were profitable in 2021, the year of peak IPOs, versus 80 percent in the early 1980s.1 And today’s start-ups are not becoming more profitable over time.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
morningstar.com | Jeffrey Funk |Gary Smith
By Jeffrey Funk and Gary Smith Two different bubbles and two completely different revenue streams mean only one thing The use of essentially free services - like social media, email, messaging, and other apps - doesn't mean they are particularly useful. It's different this time. How many times have we heard that? It usually turns out to be wishful thinking. This time, the generative-AI bubble may really be different than the dot-com bubble - just not in a good way.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
morningstar.com | Jeffrey Funk |Gary Smith
By Jeffrey Funk and Gary Smith Two different bubbles and two completely different revenue streams mean only one thing The use of essentially free services - like social media, email, messaging, and other apps - doesn't mean they are particularly useful. It's different this time. How many times have we heard that? It usually turns out to be wishful thinking. This time, the generative-AI bubble may really be different than the dot-com bubble - just not in a good way.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
harriman-house.com | Jeffrey Funk
New technologies are an investment minefield. Putting money behind them means taking a risk on unproven ventures, often from inexperienced (and potentially unscrupulous) developers. While some will lead the investor to fantastic gains, many others turn out to be mere bubbles – a flimsy veneer of excitement and hype with little profitable at the core. But ignoring these technologies can be even worse, as this can mean failing to capitalise on the next great step in innovation.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Jeffrey Funk |Gary Smith
Qualcomm Revamps Mobile Phone Chips for AI, Signs Samsung and OthersQualcomm said on Monday it is bringing technology first developed for its laptop chips to its mobile phone chips, aiming to make them more powerful …
