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The Power Factors System is the backbone of my research service, The Data Driven Investor. It’s essentially a quantitative ranking system that selects stocks based on three powerful and time-proven return drivers: financial quality, valuation, and momentum. Multiple academic studies have proven that companies exhibiting strong numbers in these three areas tend to beat the […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants Apple’s help with hurricane relief efforts in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The tech giant should remotely activate the FM radio frequency chips in its customers’ iPhones so that they can get access to news through FM radio while damaged cellular towers are being repaired, FCC […]

One of the most popular jobs on TaskRabbit, a service that lets you hire workers for quick gigs, is assembling Ikea furniture. So perhaps it’s no surprise that the Swedish retail giant has reportedly acquired the startup for an undisclosed price. TaskRabbit has only a few dozen full-time employees, but it is a platform for […]

(Reuters) – Snap Inc, searching for ways to reinvigorate a slowing growth rate and increase advertising revenue for its Snapchat messaging app, said this week it has racked up 10 million users for its Discover news and video feature in France a year after launching there. The figure, which has not previously been reported, is […]

Well, I have to admit one thing today: I underestimated what Satya Nadella could do for Microsoft. When he first became Microsoft’s CEO, the tech giant was in a mess. Not only was it losing to its biggest competitors, there was a lot of infighting. But Nadella turned things around. Under his leadership, Microsoft did […]

Ford Motor (f) has struck a partnership with Lyft to develop and test self-driving vehicles on the ride-hailing company’s growing network of passengers. Ford, which announced the partnership in a blog post early Wednesday, said that the goal is to put self-driving vehicles onto Lyft’s ride-hailing network. Just don’t expect to see self-driving Ford vehicles […]

Micron Technology reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit and forecast current-quarter results above analysts’ estimates, as the chipmaker continues to benefit from higher prices for its memory chips amid tight supply. The company’s shares (mu) were up about 4% in extended trading. Micron was the most actively traded among Nasdaq-listed stocks. Micron said on Tuesday that […]

IntroductionInvestors have begun to worry about possible costly regulations now that there are preliminary hard figures on Russia’s attempt to influence the US election process in 2016. First, let me state that the following figures may continue to inflate as Facebook (FB) has revealed that it will continue to investigate Russian groups as well as […]

Hackers breached the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s computer system last year by taking advantage of companies that used authentic financial data when they were testing the agency’s corporate filing system, according to sources familiar with the matter. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Secret Service have since launched an investigation into a […]

DETROIT (Reuters) – Commercial truck partners Navistar International Corp and Volkswagen AG’s (VOWG_p.DE) Truck and Bus said on Monday they will launch an electric medium-duty truck in North America by late 2019, and develop common hardware and systems to connect trucks to the internet. Volkswagen Truck Chief Andreas Renschler and Navistar Chief Executive Troy Clarke […]

Have you ever had to grit your teeth and “hang in there” while one of your holdings works through an industry trough? That’s where we’ve been at with USA Compression Partners LP (USAC) for the past few quarters. As US drilling declined and picked back up, USAC, the leading US pure play compression company, has […]