Dividends are a great way to offset investment portfolio volatility and boost total return, but technology usually isn’t the place to find the best payouts. Nevertheless, as certain techs age and business growth slows down, many stocks in the sector have become solid picks while still offering plenty of long-term and steady expansion potential. Three […]

It’s been a strong start to the year for the Nasdaq-100 ETF (QQQ), with the index up 8% in less than 25 trading days, more than doubling the performance of the S&P-500 (SPY). While the majority of technology stocks remain extended from their bases and have seen great runs the past few months, there are a couple […]

Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) and Alphabet’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google own two of the largest digital advertising platforms in the world. Facebook crafts targeted ads based on a user’s social connections, preferences, and personal data. Google does the same by mining a user’s search, location, and browsing histories. Both companies offer lucrative ad products, yet both are being […]

After Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) returned to bottom-line growth in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2019, its earnings growth accelerated significantly in the first quarter of fiscal 2020. The tech giant’s strong double-digit EPS growth during the period was fueled by a big quarter for the iPhone and more sharp growth in the company’s services segment and its wearables, home, […]

Virtual reality (VR) was once thought to be something of a technological holy grail — the type of tech that science-fiction plots revolved around and a subject that futurists and gadget enthusiasts opined about to great end. There’s still excitement surrounding the immersive worlds made possible by head-mounted displays, but that “holy grail” status has […]