Value Traps to Avoid
Fool’s School
When seeking great investments, don’t fall for classic value traps. Here are some traps you’ll want to be able to spot: Full Story
Name That Company
Kansas City brothers Henry & Richard founded me in 1946. I began by offering bookkeeping services but switched to taxes in the 1950s, when the IRS stopped preparing people’s returns for free. Today I’m the world’s largest tax preparation business, employing some 9,000 people full time and more than 120,000 additional folks during my busy season. Full Story
IBM: Reinventing the Wheel, Again
The Motley Fool Take
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has helped keep Moore’s Law of ever-increasing processor performance on track for more than four decades. Big Blue is at it again, now, researching how to make processors that use light instead of electricity. Full Story
Missed the Best Stock
My Dumbest Investment
I’m a printing broker. Back in April of 1999, while printing something for a customer in wireless communications, I learned that a company called Qualcomm landed a big contract with China. I called a broker, eager to invest in it, but the broker said that it was overvalued and I’d do better investing in Microsoft. I listened to him, unfortunately. Full Story
Last week’s trivia answer
My home base is in my name. Tracing my roots back to 1930, today I’m a global semiconductor giant, with annual revenue topping $10 billion. I began as a geophysical exploration company that used seismic signal processing technology to search for oil. I adopted my current name in 1951 and introduced the first commercial silicon transistor in 1954. Full Story
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