Category: Finance
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PredictMedix (PMED.C) to deploy its COVID-19 screening tech in Texas
Institutional failure at every level of decision making in the United States is why COVID-19 in the world’s largest economy is neither contained nor controlled. A healthy reminder – no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse. With over 6 million active cases and 186K+ deaths, the pandemic is a nightmare that…
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Plurilock Technologies: Disrupting Biometric Cybersecurity
The new economy is digital. It’s in the trillions, so increasing digitization of the world has led to an increased risk that some parts of the ecosystem will be compromised. It’s no surprise then, that a ton of cybersecurity firms have emerged and attempted to dominate the landscape of ensuring and maintaining data privacy. However,…
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How a carnival barker became a truth-teller: Jim Cramer just called bullshit on the “V-shaped Recovery”
Since the 2020 pandemic arrived, Cramer has starting talking and acting like a mature, rational, human being.
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You can’t fight the Fed. But you can hedge against it. The case for crypto (Part 1/2)
When you have one hammer, everything begins to look like a nail. For the Fed, it’s “print money, cut rates”. Act First, Think Later It began in 2008 when the crash of the housing market pushed the economy into a recession. The precedent was set, and policy response included a bailout and an aggressive expansion…
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Biggest hack in Twitter (TWTR.Q) history highlights developments in cyber-crime tracking
Twitter (TWTR.Q) got hacked earlier this week in what is probably one of the most brazen incidences of phishing since the technique was first recognized, but it’s not just the phishing scam—which by and large was fairly transparent—but the who and what that got hacked that made it so significant. Jack Dorsey’s going to have…
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PredictMedix: Value Meets Growth
Technology is different from every other sector by virtue of one important factor – it scales. Because technology is scaleable, firms penetrate international markets easily, exercise greater pricing power, and capture bigger margins. Businesses exist to solve problems. In solving problems, they create value. Capturing that value, on the other hand, is independent of how…
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ImmunoPrecise (IPA.V): when scientific breakthrough is executed strategically
You know what grinds my gears? The fact that investors will happily speculate on Tesla (TSLA.NYSE) stock because they think they understand the automobile market, but won’t attempt to do the due diligence for biotechs because it’s “too hard”.
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Biotech: Who will survive when the Covid-19 Hype Ends? Part II
For part I of this series please click here. Cities across Canada are gradually returning to business as usual, and we’re winning the fight against Covid-19 (don’t look south of the border). Thanks to all citizens still wearing hats to hide their botched home-haircuts, and our essential workers who literally put their lives on the…
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NetCents Technology (NC.C) cracks the daily payment code and enhances UX for merchants
Cryptocurrency has a trust problem. Most merchants look at it, see the volatility, note the scaling problems, and go back to their trusted VISA and Mastercard setups for their online daily settlements. NetCents Technology (NC.C) management has been trying to crack the code on daily payments throughout 2020, trying their best to streamline and enhance…