Category Archives: Business
Dot is The Best Selling Product. All the 2016 Holiday Records from Amazon
This 2016 holiday was the best-ever season for Amazon with devices including Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick, Fire tablet and Amazon Echo topping the best-sellers list. Customers purchased and gifted a record-setting number of devices from the Amazon Echo family with sales up over 9x compared to last year’s holiday season and millions of Alexa […]
Truth is What Gets the Most Likes and Retweets
Is this real or an illlusion? It’s is as real as you perceive it to be. Thoughts on Truth and Facts from Scott Galloway You could argue that with social media, the truth is now what we all agree it is. Whatever gets the most likes or whatever seems to get the most user reviews […]
Russian hackers appear to be making $3m to $5m a day showing real video ads to fake people on fake websites
Ed Snowden, eat your heart out. The computer security firm White Ops released a detailed investigative report on the largest digital ad fraud operation to date. Ominously dubbed the Methbot Operation (after the word “meth” that appears in the code), a group of Russian hackers appear to be making $3m to $5m a day by […]
Blockchain ‘Crypto’ Crowdfunding Phenomenon Primed For Industry Disruption & Beyond
If one looks at a project like Centz, crypto tokens purchased in the crowdsale function not only as an asset of the company held as an investment, but can be exchanged for Goldbucks and spent throughout the network – whether for oneself or given via transferable e-gift cards. Dubbed the world’s first gift card cyptoexchange, […]
This Robotic Dog Could Soon Deliver Packages (Watch)
What would you think if you got a package delivered to your front door by a robotic dog? Today, you’d probably be fairly shocked. But in the not-too-distant future, this could be a commonplace occurrence. Google’s Boston Dynamics has created a robot named Spot Mini that it thinks could potentially get the job done. This […]
Do You Treat New Hires This Way?
I have no idea who these people are, or what companies do this but it sure made me feel like I’d want to work with them. Easy to do. Why not try it? What rituals do you use for team building?
Bill Gates’s new $1 billion fund will back radical clean energy ideas
Bill Gates has announced a $1 billion investment fund to back radical approaches to clean energy. Last year, Gates established the Breakthrough Energy Coalition with more than 20 billionaires, among them Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Alibaba’s Jack Ma, and Virgin’s Richard Branson. At the time, they promised to invest at least $2 billion into new technologies. […]
7,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund’s Brain
Richard Craib is a 29-year-old South African who runs a hedge fund in San Francisco. Or rather, he doesn’t run it. He leaves that to an artificially intelligent system built by several thousand data scientists whose names he doesn’t know. Under the banner of a startup called Numerai, Craib and his team have built technology […]
