Chris Versace
Chris Versace’s PowerTalk: dwinQ President and CEO Patrick Sweeney
Welcome to PowerTalk, where we talk with CEOs, COOs and other key business people at public and private companies as well as other subject matter experts. This week’s PowerTalk interview is with Patrick Sweeney, President and CEO of dwinQ, a social media product placement company. He’s also the author of RFID for Dummies and a […]
PowerTrend Brief: Don’t Get Lost in the Belly of the Earnings Beast
More than 135 companies reported their December quarter results last week and that will surge to more than 490 this week with more than 260 company conference calls on tap after the Monday holiday. That’s a lot of information to plow through, dissect and put into context.
Chris Versace’s PowerTalk: Keith Bliss from Cuttone & Company
This week’s PowerTalk interview is with Keith Bliss, senior vice president at Cuttone and Company, one of the largest floor brokers on the NYSE. He said 2013 is shaping up to deliver a lot more of the same for investors as 2012 – mixed economic signals, political battles and all.
PowerTrend Brief: Generating Profits While the Consumer Gets Punched in the Gut
With the International Consumer Electronic Show (CES) finished, there is no shortage of wrap-up articles touting the latest whiz-bangs that will be soon hitting the market. For those of you who listened to my PowerTalks with Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association and Gary Martin of General Motors (GM), there really […]
Chris Versace’s PowerTalk: Jason Alderman of Visa
Welcome to PowerTalk, where we talk with CEOs, COOs and other key business people at public and private companies as well as other subject matter experts. This week’s PowerTalk interview is with Jason Alderman, personal finance expert and the Senior Director of Global Financial Programs at Visa (V). Jason and I start off by taking […]
Tuning in to the International Consumer Electronics Show This Week
Last Friday’s edition of USA Today ran a very interesting article for those of us investors who utilize PowerTrends to identify well-positioned companies to invest in for the weeks, months and years ahead. More specifically, I’m talking about the feature on the home of the future that mixes intelligent devices, ongoing breakthroughs in robotics, cloud […]