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The latest investment strategies and insights from Markman Capital Insight. Helping investors get the most reward from every ounce of risk.  The latest investment strategies and insights from Markman Capital Insight. Helping investors get the most reward from every ounce of risk. 

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Big data is becoming a big business

To get our regular email updates, simply click here.Businesses have gone data crazy. You can’t blame them. Streaming, real-time data analysis promises to bring the type of predictability that cuts costs, solves problems and grows sales. That seemed to be the unofficial theme of the Strata + Hadoop World conference held the first week of...

  • October 19th, 2016
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Google Tries to Run Your House

To get our regular email updates, simply click here.If we believe Google, the migration from mobile to artificial intelligence is already underway. The future will bring personal search and seamless, portable digital assistants. Two weeks ago, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai presided over the release of specs and pricing for its new hardware...

  • October 14th, 2016
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Cybersecurity 'Cold War' Heats Up

To get our regular email updates, simply click here.Someone is trying to take down the Internet. They are systematically targeting the core systems that keeps everything running. Most people take the Internet for granted. It’s where we get our news and how we keep in touch with friends and family. It has become a key part of our culture. Disruption...

  • September 28th, 2016
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Salesforce.com Knows What You Want (Before You Do)

To get our regular email updates, simply click here.If Salesforce.com (CRM) founder Marc Benioff has his way, artificial intelligence software will infuse every facet of the corporate world, making employees faster, smarter and more productive. While that might seem optimistic, Benioff has a history of getting enterprise productivity software...

  • September 22nd, 2016
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Big data + artificial intelligence = boom

To get our regular email updates, simply click here.We are on the verge of a very fast rate of technological change. If you think the Internet and mobile communications have changed the world, just wait. Coming years will be even more disruptive and amazing.When most people ponder technology they default to thoughts about compute power and its...

  • September 14th, 2016
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Google's Need for Speed

To get our regular email updates, simply click here.For mobile users the Internet is slow and tedious. Two of the biggest companies have a fix if content providers are willing to get on board with fragmentation.In August Google announced its Accelerated Mobile Pages program would move from a special developer’s preview version to all mobile...

  • September 12th, 2016
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A new era of persistent aerial surveillance

To get our regular email updates, simply click here.Surveillance technology that could slash crime rates and topple deadly domestic terror plots is ready. And despite privacy concerns, it’s probably coming to a city near you. It was inevitable. Wide angle camera hardware has been getting better for years. Now those fancy cameras are being...

  • September 8th, 2016
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Nvidia has got still game

It doesn’t get the notoriety of Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon. It’s not even really a software company yet it’s been a better technology investment and the outlook is sunnier. Nvidia (NVDA) beat Wall Street consensus revenue forecasts in early August by $200 million, sending the stock to another record high. The company is...

  • August 31st, 2016