Word: techs
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MAAB and ADA code is designed for people in manual wheelchairs with full upper-body strength. But some disabled people use higher-tech, heavier wheelchairs which are electronically controlled or have additional health-related equipment built...
This might be the year that the rest of us got smarter than Warren Buffett. America's best-known investing whiz runs Berkshire Hathaway, pals around with Bill Gates and famously shuns tech stocks. Yet tech stocks, the day traders' favorite food, have sustained the market, while Berkshire's A-class stock is down 19% and headed for its first losing year since 1990. By the end of last week, when stocks in general were bruised by fears of inflation and mixed earnings reports, the company had lost $20 billion of market value...
Given the curious one-off nature of those daylong specials--both of which produced monster returns if you bought bushels of stock the day after--some sellers are simply trying to raise enough cash for the expected mini-crash. Others, mindful that it has been a super market for tech all year, are anxious to take something off the table ahead of a quick sell-off that might wipe out those gains...
Given the buy-on-the-dip attitude that infects everyone from mutual-fund managers to individual investors, who can blame these sellers? The technology-fund investors have the added woe of not knowing what awaits them with the year 2000 changeover, something that a slew of tech companies that reported earnings this week said, suddenly, had begun to impact the bottom line negatively...
Demographic information garnered from tech-savvy, product-fickle kids is marketing gold, and the FTC knows it. Today, if a kid fills out a form to play an interactive game or join a chat room, his or her Internet habits can be captured, analyzed and sold ? and parents could find their offspring bombarded with all sorts of marketing malarkey. The new restrictions, which delineate the Children?s Online Privacy Protection Act passed last year in Congress, may make parents feel a bit more in control of their children?s time online. In fact, the restrictions are bound to make just...