Smartphones have more or less looked identical to one another for the past decade, but companies like Samsung, Motorola and Google are changing that with screens that bend and fold. Almost every major smartphone maker has released a foldable phone or is planning to, with Apple being the main exception. Android phone makers clearly see the future of smartphones as devices that can fold in half to more easily fit in your pocket or fold open to double as a tablet. But Apple is taking a decidedly different approach. Rather than using new hardware designs to expand the way we…
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We’re Hopeful That Cronos Group (TSE:CRON) Will Use Its Cash Wisely
There’s no doubt that money can be made by owning shares of unprofitable businesses. For example, although Salesforce.com’s software-as-a-service business lost money for years while it grew recurring revenue, if you held shares since 2005, you’d have done very well indeed. Nonetheless, only a fool would ignore the risk that a loss making the company burns through its cash too quickly. Given this risk, we thought we’d take a look at whether Chronos Group (TSE:CRON) shareholders should be worried about its cash burn. For the purposes of this article, cash burn is the annual rate at which an unprofitable company…
Easy Software (HMSE:ESY) Shareholders Will Want The ROCE Trajectory To Continue
What are the early trends we should look for to identify a stock that could multiply in value over the long term? First, we’d want to identify a growing returns on capital employed (ROCE) and then alongside that, an ever-increasing base of capital employed. Put simply, these types of businesses are compounding machines, meaning they are continuously reinvesting their earnings at ever-higher rates of return. Speaking of which, we noticed some great changes in Easy Software’s (HMSE:ESY) returns on capital, so let’s have a look. Understanding Return On Capital Employed (ROCE) Just to clarify if you’re undecided, ROCE is a…
Has Hollywood finally milked the superhero genre dry?
The superhero genre landed in theaters with an overwhelming roar and grabbed the attention of moviegoers straight away. Superhero movies aren’t anything new, to say they are a new phenomenon would be a slight to the greats like Christopher Reeve, Michael Keaton, Wesley Snipes, and countless others from past superhero movies. Estimated reading time: 4 minutes the Superman movies of the late 70s may seem simple and campy, but they are entertaining to the audience of the day. Movies like Blades and Tim Burton’s Batman might feel dated with special effects that aren’t as polished by today’s standards, but they…
AI firm Palantir picks UK as Europe HQ
Palantir has chosen the UK as its new European headquarters for AI development. Photo: STRF/STAR MAX/IPx US tech firm Palantir (PLTR) (0A7R.L) has chosen the UK as its new European headquarters for AI development, as fintech company CAB also eyes a London listing. The British government said that Palantir’s move showed the strength of the UK’s expertise, and follows plans for the UK to host a major summit on the risk posed by AI. It is pushing for London to become the location for a new global AI regulator, modeled on the International Atomic Energy Agency. “London is a magnet…
Alibaba’s T-Head joins global initiative to develop RISC-V software ecosystem, along with Intel, Qualcomm and Nvidia
T-Head, the chip unit of Alibaba Group Holding, has joined a global initiative to develop a software ecosystem and accelerate commercialization for RISC-V, as the open-source chip design architecture is increasingly seen as a potential alternative to proprietary Arm and x86 architectures. The RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) Project, hosted by Linux Foundation European, a non-profit organization enabling innovation through open source, has brought together 13 global industry leaders as its founding members, according to a press release issued by the organization earlier this week. It aims to enable “commercial-ready software” for application processors using the RISC-V architecture for mobile phones,…
The RISE project gives RISC-V an open-source software lift: embedded
Hardware needs software and it needs a good ecosystem to help proliferate deployment and serve different applications. To address this, the Linux Foundation Europe has launched a new global collaborative effort to accelerate the availability of software for high-performance and power-efficient RISC-V cores running high-level operating systems for a variety of market segments. Called the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) project, it brings together key players in the ecosystem with a governing board that includes Andes, Google, Intel, Imagination Technologies, MediaTek, Nvidia, Qualcomm Technologies, Red Hat, Rivos, Samsung, SiFive , T-Head, and Ventana. The chair of the RISE Project, Amber Huffman,…
Take-Two Interactive Software (NASDAQ:TTWO) Price Target Raised to $160.00 at BMO Capital Markets
Take-Two Interactive Software (NASDAQ:TTWO – Get Rating) had its price target hoisted by BMO Capital Markets from $130.00 to $160.00 in a research note published on Monday morning, The Fly reports. A number of other research firms have also recently weighed in on TTWO. StockNews.com started coverage on shares of Take-Two Interactive Software in a research note on Thursday, May 18th. They issued a sell rating on the stock. Moffett Nathanson upgraded shares of Take-Two Interactive Software from a market perform rating to an outperform rating and set a $140.00 price target on the stock in a research report on…