By John Farrell, Contributor Following up on my recent post on Via Science, I wanted to dig a little deeper into how their machine learning platform, REFS™ works, and why it requires so much CPU power. …read more
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Following a devastating motorcycle accident that cut short a promising NBA career, Jay Williams had a choice. He could spend the rest of his life regretting his decision and use it as a crutch to drag himself through life seeking pity for his past mistakes, or he could take his experiences and use it to fuel him to bigger and better things outside the game of basketball. William’s chose the latter, and in just a few short years has gone from a poster child of shortsightedness to a shining example of triumphing over adversity. …read more
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Following the reveal of Facebook Home as an new ‘user interface layer’ for Android, CEO Mark Zuckerberg focused heavily on the idea that it was a people first approach, and not an app-first approach. Which Microsoft’s VP of corporate communications, Frank Shaw, was quick to point matched up with Windows Phone approach. …read more
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By Tim Worstall, Contributor Following on from the entirely bizarre falling over of Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, last Friday, we’re getting interesting little stories that make it all so much worse. …read more
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Following my suggestion that a key to answering the question, How To Be Happy At Work, is to be involved in “delighting customers”, one colleague told me that he choked on the word, “customer”. I get the part about ‘delighting’. The focus is on value-in-use from collaboration around an activity. So ‘delighting’ is fine. But ‘customer’ is a problem: this isn’t about a one-way transaction with a producer delivering something to a ‘customers. Instead, every party should be getting something out of it, in intangible ways as much as the tangible. This is about creating delight for everyone involved in the interaction. This recalls Chris Brogan’s rant in reaction to a newsletter from Jeff Bezos at Amazon [AMZN], “A Customer Is A Dirty Word.” I am not a customer. I am not a user. I might be a client. I might be a member. I may even be a loyalist. But don’t call me a customer. “Customer” is a dirty word. Words Matter… I’m not even fond of “users.” At Kitchen Table Companies, we have members. We have advisors… I want Jeff Bezos to call me his very cherished and appreciated community member. I want him to think of me as a supporter. Something. Anything. I agree that the commercial overtones of the term “customer” to describe “the people for whom and with whom the work is being done” are problematic. …read more
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Following its spin-off from online travel agency Expedia in December 2011, TripAdvisor, a leading online platform for travel reviews continues to witness rapid top line growth every quarter. Rising traffic and content growth on a global basis has helped the company perform well, despite macro-economic headwinds and high operating costs. TripAdvisor will announce its Q4 2012 earnings on February 13, and we expect the company to post another quarter of solid growth. …read more
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Following a decade-long rally, gold prices have slumped for much of the past 18 months. Long championed as a source of both capital protection and upside appreciation (especially during the financial crisis and resulting recession), the price of gold has declined while equity markets surged to five-year highs. …read more
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By Oliver Herzfeld, Contributor Following cyclist Lance Armstrong’s recent, but less than fully contrite, admission to Oprah Winfrey that for more than a decade he (i) used performance enhancing drugs, and (ii) repeatedly made false public statements denying that he did so, on January 22, 2013, a federal class-action lawsuit was filed in California against Armstrong and his book publishers, Penguin and Random House. The suit accuses the defendants of fraud and false advertising in connection with Armstrong’s books, Every Second Counts and It’s Not About the Bike because they include repeated false denials of Armstrong’s use of banned substances. According to the complaint, the books were sold “based upon the false belief that they were true and honest works of nonfiction when, in fact, [the d]efendants knew or should have known that these books were works of fiction.” The plaintiffs are not limiting their requested remedy to the purchase price of the books. Instead, they are seeking “any statutorily permissible damages, attorneys’ fees, expenses and costs.” And, based on prior cases, additional claims and causes of action may be brought against the defendants.
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By Carolyn McClanahan, Contributor Following the creation and implementation of Obamacare is better than any soap opera available. We are now three years into the show, and I especially love to make predictions about future installments. My prediction of the day involves large employer reactions to coverage.
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By Jason Evangelho, Contributor Following the Disney Infinity press event in Hollywood, I sat down t with John Pleasants to discuss the game, the tantalizing possibilities Marvel and Star Wars bring to the table, the overarching involvement of the Walt Disney Company.
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By Justin Belmont, Contributor Following the Google Chairman’s visit to North Korea, which concluded last Thursday. (Photo credit: petersnoopy) Dearest Kindred Overlord, Such a pleasure! Never in Righteous History was there a more considerate houseguest. (Americans do have a rep for being sorta rude, especially when indefinitely detained.) I admit it. Before you arrived in Pyongyang, I was […]
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By Zacks.com, Contributor Following stellar third quarter results that included a positive earnings surprise, shares of Comfort Systems USA are currently hovering near its 52-week high.
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