There’s no doubt technology is shaking up the American workplace. Amazon employs more than 100,000 robots in its US warehouses, alongside more than 125,000 human workers. Sears and Brookstone, icons of brick and mortar retailing, are both bankrupt. But as… Continue Reading
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Top U.S. universities are ditching telecom equipment made by Huawei Technologies and other Chinese companies to avoid losing federal funding under a new national security law backed by the Trump administration. FILE PHOTO: Graduates attend commencement… Continue Reading
There are breaches, and there are megabreaches, and there’s Equifax. But a newly revealed trove of leaked data tops them all for sheer volume: 772,904,991 unique email addresses, over 21 million unique passwords, all recently posted to a hacking forum.… Continue Reading
TAIPEI/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – One of China’s top government-linked think tanks has called out Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc and other foreign companies for not referring to Hong Kong and Taiwan as part of China in a report that provoked a stern… Continue Reading
Most of you who start new ventures don’t think of yourselves as sales experts. In fact, you may feel on the opposite end of the spectrum, more focused on delivering the perfect solution and managing the finances to grow the… Continue Reading
BERLIN (Reuters) – Employees will not need a key to get into the office of the future when it opens in Berlin this year, featuring ample meeting space, plenty of copy machines always stocked with paper along with high-quality air… Continue Reading
Are you still on Facebook? If so, do you ever get those notices reminding you of the silly things you posted years ago? Imagine if you were Mark Zuckerberg. Imagine how embarrassing your anniversary posts would be. Take the personal public… Continue Reading
What It’s About According to conventional wisdom, innovation disrupts industries. Small, innovative, nimble companies overtake and eventually destroy their dinosaur-like predecessors. One archetype of “disruptive innovation” is the PC, which disrupted the computer industry that was based around minicomputers and mainframes.… Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is considering an executive order in the new year to declare a national emergency that would bar U.S. companies from using telecommunications equipment made by China’s Huawei and ZTE, three sources familiar with the… Continue Reading
In April of this year, I wrote an article discussing the 10 reasons the bull market had ended. “The backdrop of the market currently is vastly different than it was during the ‘taper tantrum’ in 2015-2016, or during the corrections… Continue Reading
My fellow Americans, we live in a divided time. But there is one thing we all agree on. It’s only getting worse. By next month, nearly half of all incoming cell-phone calls will be spam. Half! Sure, the government cracks… Continue Reading
Less than two weeks ago, President Trump warned he’d shut down the U.S. Government if he didn’t get $5 billion for his border wall with Mexico in the new budget. Democrats called his bluff; Trump didn’t blink. And so, a… Continue Reading
Ali Tamaseb, a founder turned venture capitalist at Data Collective VC, recently spent 300 hours gathering data on billion-dollar startups. He generated 100 charts exploring their history and outlined dozens of valuable insights–all in a quest to learn what billion-dollar startups look like at inception. Tamaseb gathered… Continue Reading
Inside the stark and sweeping Eero Saarinen-styled exterior of the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, IBM’s blue jeans-wearing boffins are assembling a new generation of super-powered computers built on quantum mechanical principles. These otherworldly machines dangle from… Continue Reading
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It has been a dismal year for AT&T (T) investors. While the dividends kept rolling in like clockwork, the rest of the business performed nothing close to Swiss clockwork, and as a result, the stock tanked up to 25% before… Continue Reading
Last month, I pointed out that Elon Musk was horribly wrong when he stated that “nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week.” That column got more than the usual amount of pushback, half of which seemed to… Continue Reading
There were a few interesting surprises in the 2019 awards: 1. Bain & CompanyCompany Rating: 4.6 “Bain fosters a really supportive and fun work environment. At a local level, my colleagues are at once my mentors, confidantes, and closest friends.”… Continue Reading