Category: Technology
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![Patriot One’s (PAT.T) CEO Martin Cronin stands and delivers]()
Patriot One’s (PAT.T) CEO Martin Cronin stands and delivers
PAT’s tech is a cost-effective insurance policy for trains, concert venues, schools, casinos, universities, stadiums, hospitals, police stations and churches. Wide adoption in any one of these markets could be a company-maker for PAT.
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![Patriot One (PAT.T) partners with a 22,000-seat L.A. soccer stadium]()
Patriot One (PAT.T) partners with a 22,000-seat L.A. soccer stadium
On December 17, 2019 Patriot One (PAT.T) announced a collaboration with Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC), part of Major League Soccer (MLS), to pilot its PATSCAN Platform at Banc of California Stadium.
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AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) jumps 31% after short attack falls away
Technology public markets newbie AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) has had an interesting first 7 weeks on the market, initially doubling in value out of the gate, before profit taking and short selling drove it well down to 2/3 of its initial financing price in just as quick time. That downswing swung back hard today, with a…
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![Amazon.com (AMZN.NASDAQ): Corporate welfare over welfare capitalism]()
Amazon.com (AMZN.NASDAQ): Corporate welfare over welfare capitalism
Jeff Bezos started Amazon in his garage with a couple hundred grand from his parents. This ex-hedge fund manager turned internet titan and evil king-making gnome has often been lauded for his customer-focused business strategies, aggressive business development and industry prowess, but how challenging is the journey when you’re a 1500lb gorilla on someone else’s…
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AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) management pulls baller financing move, fights off shorters
AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) CEO Anthony Brown told a reporter yesterday he was looking to raise money for acquisitions and growth, with a $2 million raise announced a few days ago. Nothing weird about that. What was maybe a little weird was the flex Brown was pulling in the announcing of that financing. With his stock heading…
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![The strange story of SoftBank’s rich weirdo CEO, Masayoshi Son]()
The strange story of SoftBank’s rich weirdo CEO, Masayoshi Son
I’ve always wanted to be a rich weirdo. Like Nicolas Cage marrying Lisa-Marie Presley on a whim to feel close to her Dad, buying two private islands, collecting shrunken pygmy heads and living in Anne Rice’s old house in the Garden District of New Orleans weird. But those things get old, and eventually I’d want…
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AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) CEO to ring the bell Thursday, but execs are too busy to join him
Ringing the bell to signal the start of trading at the stock exchange is a time honoured tradition for executives at newly-listed public companies. It announces to the market, “We’ve arrived,” and is usually a time to be shared with executives, deal guys, board members, advisors, family members, hangers on, posses, minions, and that guy…
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Slack’s (WORK.NYSE) sad performance and the scourge of Silicon Valley
When Slack (WORK) listed on the NYSE this year, it was the first tech unicorn to grace American markets through a direct listing rather than the traditional Initial Public Offering (IPO). This historic event came on the heels of a growing dissatisfaction in Silicon Valley over Wall Street’s preferred path to public trading. In fact,…
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Defense Metals (DEFN.V) yanking rare earths out of the ground, markets be damned
“Resources are coming!” is the yell heard at every Howe Street watering hole lately, and has been for several months. As cannabis bleeds out like traffic stop in Mississippi, and crypto waves its hands looking for new investors who haven’t already been bollocked by it previously, and tech endures the ongoing disaster film that is…
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LiteLink Technologies (LLT.C): Using AI and blockchain tech to build the Uber of cargo
Logistics is not hot. Nobody is telling their assistant, “Bring me the hottest trucking deals out there, I have a hundred grand burning a hole through my pocket and I want it buying a semi trailer working the Moose Jaw millet run.” But there is money to be made in transport. Hell, between Lyft, Uber,…
