Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA)’s CEO, Elon Musk expects the price of the batteries that fuel electric cars will come down significantly in the near future, but will it? A recent report by Menahem Anderman, organizer of Advanced Automotive Batteries Conference, highlights that Musk is probably outguessing the amount by which battery prices will decrease in the future. Green Car Report in one of its posts elaborated on the observations of Anderman. At present, Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) boasts of having the lowest cost-per-kilowatt-hours in the industry, it is also rumored that the company is approaching the $200 per-kilowatt-hour. Though this…
Author: Ritesh Anan
Ritesh Anan
Ritesh Anan is a full-time derivatives trader. Though he firmly believes in the power of Technical Analysis, he is also a lifelong student of macroeconomics. In his free time, he reads anything and everything that comes from Robert J. Shiller, George Soros and Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) will be launching the new version of its iPad and iPad mini, as well as the next version of the Mac operating system at a media event on October 21. Though the company hasn’t confirmed this officially, but Reuters in one of its post said that Daily Dot has revealed this information. When Reuters approached Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s spokeperson Trudy Muller, he declined to comment on this news. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s new operating system, OS X Yosemite has gone through a complete visual overhaul. If the news is true then it would be the sixth generation of…
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) is charging customers in Switzerland more than it charges customers from other countries. Whereas in other countries like France, Germany and Austria Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) is charging users a monthly subscription fee of 7.99 Euros, which is around 10 francs, Customers in Switzerland will be shelling out 11.90 francs. The Local revealed this in one of its posts recently. It was also revealed in the post that Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) won’t be offering content in one of Switzerland’s official language Romansh. Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) offers users an option to change their account settings in order to watch…
When Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) announced today that it has added to Open edX the ability to use over 60 external authentication providers. Apart from its own Course Builder project Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) also shares a partnership with edX. Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) announced this news in a post on its Google for Education blog. edX is a non-profit organization that through its software Open edX allows users to create educational content and deliver it to other users across the world, anytime of the day. Earlier, it was necessary for users of edX to create a separate account before using the services,…
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) and Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR), yes, there are other players too, but it would be safe to say that these two companies and their subsidiaries make up nearly the whole market of social websites and hence define the term ‘social media’. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) and Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) has had an effect on relationships, culture, public policy and even politics. Fox News Medical A-Team’s Dr. Keith Ablow, recently discussed on Fox Business News, the positive and negative effects of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) and Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR). “Sure Social media can motivate people towards causes, that is a wonderful…
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has purchased the exclusive use of ‘.buy’ domain name by paying almost $5 million for it. The company was among the major contenders for this web domain and it comes as no surprise that it won it in the auction. Even though Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is working in different verticals, all that has been made possible by the revenues from its e-commerce business hence the exclusive use if ‘.buy’ domain name was so crucial for it. Domain Name Wire revealed this news in one of its posts recently. The auction for the web domains was conducted by…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) is working with Switch SUPERNAP to provide the “Cherry Creek” supercomputer to researchers at University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). The company made this announcement in a press release that it issued today. According to the PR, the Cherry Creek Supercomputer is one of the fastest and mostpowerful supercomputer in the world. The researches at UNLV currently access this supercomputer at Switch SUPERNAP’s Las Vegas data center. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) is partnering with Switch to provide this supercomputer to researches. The Cherry Creek supercomputer is said to be seven times faster in processing data than the supercomputer…
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) it seems is not getting out of the hardware business anytime soon as the company is launching one product after another in that space. The company also made some recent changes, which were discussed by the “Squawk Alley” team on CNBC, recently. “If you are thinking about this company and what it needs to do going forward is it’s a lot of moves in the enterprise space, getting down to its knitting also they announced a new universal keyboard that’s going to work with iPhones, with iPads, with other devices. This is a good move by Microsoft, doing…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) is not satisfied by conducting a roadshow within the US, to ensure that the company’s IPO becomes the biggest in history, its executives are conducting overseas roadshows too. CNBC’s Seema Mody reported on the meetings that are being held between Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA)’s CEO, Jack Ma, the company’s top executives and London-based asset managers. “Here in London, asset managers and hedge-funders are said to be inside this meeting with top management from Alibaba as well as Jack Ma. In fact, about half an hour ago four Range Rovers pulled over here, in front of…
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), and Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) are even though classified as tech stocks, they are way too different from each other. All the three companies have different business models and cater services and products that barring a few exceptions are different from each other. So who among Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), and Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) has the potential to survive for the longest time? And better still who among them can become too powerful, so as to stifle innovation? Peter Thiel, Co-Founder of Plantir was on Bloomberg recently to answer all these questions. According…
Renee James, President at Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) was recently interviewed by TheStreet on why Moore’s law is so important for the company and the company’s plans for its Internet of Things and Data Center Group business segments. “We power the cloud and Data Center is a big portion of our business, it’s really an important part for us, when you think about IOT [Internet of Things] and the growth on the edge of the network and the data analytics and the ability to capture data into the cloud. It’s a very important part of the business, both ends of the…
One doesn’t expect an e-commerce giant like eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY)’s site to fail as the company derives most of it revenues from the websites it operates. Sadly, even behemoths can’t ensure that they work fine all the time, but what they can ensure is compensate the people who face losses due to them. That’s exactly what eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY) is going to do for the massive outage that happened on its website recently. The Register revealed today in one of its post that eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY) is going to compensate the sellers on its website who suffered loss due to…