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The world is becoming an increasingly dangerous place resulting in a number of billion-dollar companies springing up in the personal security industry.  Ring LLC was sold to Amazon.com Inc. for over $1 billion, and Tile has raised over $140 million in funding. Life360 Inc. is worth about...

Government regulation is generally considered bad for an industry.  It often results in increased costs around compliance and increased restrictions that inhibit growth. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing — for example, creating restrictions on where manufacturers can dump...

It’s no secret artificial intelligence (AI) has advanced — so much so that it’s already replacing human workers. While most people don’t need to worry about their jobs being replaced in the short term, AI could mean that people are expected to do more with less. AI platforms...

Emergency detection and response technology is a revolutionary new form of artificial intelligence (AI) being implemented into people's everyday lives. One issue with existing emergency response devices is that, during an emergency, people often don’t have the ability to use the device that...

Business magnate Warren Buffett has long been hailed as one of the greatest value investors in modern America. Through decades of mergers and acquisitions, great investments and adhering to austere investing principles, Buffett earned this title as well as the title World's Richest Person in...

​​In 2012, an aspiring world leader stood on a stage and called Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA), formerly Tesla Motors, a loser. The man — Mitt Romney — said in his debate with President Barack Obama: “But don’t forget, you put $90 billion, like 50 years’ worth of breaks,...

Ring revolutionized the home security industry with its namesake doorbell. The startup initially catapulted to mainstream attention after it showed up on the popular startup investing show “Shark Tank.” It originally was called Doorbot but rebranded to Ring shortly after its “...

“Berkshire will always be building.” So said Warren Buffett in his latest annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in February. Most people might imagine he means adding to Berkshire’s dozens of company holdings or the $144 billion in cash he calls a “financial...

When Jeff Bezos started Amazon.com Inc. as an online bookseller in 1994, he thought his company would probably fail. And he was upfront about it with Amazon’s investors — starting with his parents. As Bezos told an interviewer in 2000, three years after Amazon went public, “I...

The nearly 3 billion gamers in the world are expected to push the global gaming industry to more than $200 billion in 2023, according to some estimates. And with money flowing through a market that big, investors will be on the lookout for opportunities.  Gameflip is a digital marketplace app...

You probably haven’t heard of Coke County, Texas. Out of thousands of counties in America, it’s one of the smallest, with just 3,300 residents. But it enjoyed the biggest economic boom of any county from 2019 to 2021, according to an analysis from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In...

On Aug. 16, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, directing billions of dollars to Americans looking to upgrade their homes, businesses and cars. One provision of the law allows Americans making less than $150,000 a year to claim a $7,500 tax credit for buying an electric...

Good investors are always on the lookout for new opportunities in growing sectors of the economy, and one of the fastest-growing sectors today is security.  By some estimates, the home security market, which was worth $56.9 billion at the end of 2022, is expected to keep growing to nearly $85...

StartEngine is a well-known equity crowdfunding platform that has helped 37 companies go public. MaxTracker is a mobile GPS tracker and anti-theft device raising funds on the site, which means anyone can invest for a limited time. MaxTracker believes all the most widely known high-end home security...

The first iPhone came out in June 2007, and now 84% of Americans own a smartphone and many can’t imagine a world without them.  While Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) didn’t make the first smartphone, it was the device that catapulted the technology to its modern-day success, quickly...