Author: Vitaliy Dadalyan

BlackBerry posts surprise revenue rise on higher software, licensing demand

U.S.-listed shares of BlackBerry, which sells security software to companies and governments as well as infotainment software to carmakers, rose 6% in early morning trade. BlackBerry's QNX car software sales, which had been under pressure due to a pandemic-related weakness in the U.S. auto industry, also improved in the quarter. "Some signs of recovery in auto production point to sequential revenue growth and a return to a normal run rate for QNX by early next year," Chief Executive John Chen said in a statement....

Here's How Much Investing $1,000 In Intel At Dot-Com Bubble Peak Would Be Worth Today

Despite an ongoing pandemic and the U.S. economy barely limping along, the Nasdaq is still trading more than 50% above its March lows. The surge in tech stocks in 2020 has understandably led investors to draw comparisons to the dot-com bubble in 2000.The Nasdaq ultimately peaked at 5,048.62 on March 10, 2000. Of course, some dot-com bubble stocks have performed much better than others in the 20 years since the bubble burst.Intel's Past 20 Years: Without a doubt, semiconductor stock Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) had major difficulty returning to its dot-com bubble levels.Intel went public back in 1971, more than two decades before the dot-com bubble started to inflate. Intel's IPO took place the same year the company produced the world's first commercially available microprocessor, Intel 4004. Intel IPO investors likely never could have foreseen the rise of the internet, smartphones, cloud computing and many of the other tailwinds that have...