Who do you love? The home assistant competition
The fight to bring music and a virtual assistant to every home intensified in November with the release of the Google Home system; the direct competitor…
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Pings: Millennials and scams; Facebook soars
Millennials fall for online scams, study says The most tech-savvy group in the world are the most likely to have lost money in scams, according to the…
Book Review: What was gone is found again
Trusting your judgment, learning how to take risks, believing in yourself, feeling authentic. All these phrases are the common topics of books on business…
Business history: October massacre
October has been a month marked with painful scars for the stock market. Black Tuesday – October, 28, 1929, the crash that contributed to the Great…
Pings: Android, pizza, Hawk/snake video
In-app search for Android rolls out Google has announced a new search system for Android that will search inside apps such as email, to-do lists, notes,…
Is my computer being monitored at work?
Yes, your computer is being monitored at work. But don’t get too paranoid. In 1940, it would be frowned upon to use the company typewriter to type…
Great Moments in Business
Filene’s: Edward Albert Filene, born September 3, 1860, was an American merchant and philanthropist. He made the family store into a retail powerhouse,…
Could this curious trend save retail?
Street retail is declining as shoppers spend less time pounding the pavement for necessities and take their business online. That has been bad for…
Book Review ‘Creativity’ engages
“Creativity, Inc.,” by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace achieves something that many business books strive for, but that few achieve. It tells an engaging story…
Smartphones might end the checkout cha-cha
The checkout counter cha-cha: Swipe the card, step back, turn around, insert in chip reader, tap toe for 10 minutes while the card reader works. Okay,…