When Hurricane Michael touched down in mid-October, it destroyed rows of homes in the Florida Panhandle, leaving behind just a […]
The 2015 “Sleeper Ideas” List: Trends, Stocks, And Private Companies To Watch
By Eric Jackson, Forbes, This is the 4th year in a row I’ve curated an annual prediction list for Forbes. Last […]
The Ride-Sharing, Handbag-Borrowing Productivity Revival
By Aki Ito and Jeff Kearns Rayshauna Gray makes frequent trips around New England from her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. […]
Inside Google’s Secret Lab
By Brad Stone, Bloomberg Last February, Astro Teller, the director of Google’s (GOOG) secretive research lab, Google X, went to […]
Bitcoin for Beginners
By Jeffrey Tucker, From Laissez Faire Club, Understanding Bitcoin requires that we understand the limits of our ability to imagine […]
The Robot Will See You Now
IBM’s Watson—the same machine that beat Ken Jennings at Jeopardy—is now churning through case histories at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, learning to […]
Looking For A High-Tech Job? Try Cotton.
By Adam Davidson, Unemployment is still at 9 percent, leaving more than 12 million Americans without work. But there are […]
A Dim View of Betting on Start-Ups
By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, NY Times, “There’s too much money chasing too few deals.” Sean Parker, the entrepreneur behind Napster […]