Thursday, April 30, 2015
New NFC Necklace Stores Immunization Records: Does it Work?
Yale college students have developed a NFC-power necklace that can store immunization records. Is it lifesaving tech or another mHealth project not ready to scale?
Egress Filtering: Who Let The Data Out?
A cheese ball headline if I ever I wrote one. My apologies. But, there is a salient question here. We all take the time to review the logs to see what is attacking out networks (right?). We take the time to ensure that our perimeter is safe and secure. We practice our incident response plans to make sure we know who has to do which job, when and who to contact. You get the idea.
Caught Up on Video? Collaborative Technologies Are Transforming HR
Tools like video allow teams to more easily and efficiently connect.
Your Income May Disqualify Your Child For College Aid Regardless Of Your Assets
As often is the case at most state universities, if the parent’s income is too high to qualify for need-based financial aid anyway, then moving the child’s assets or parents, into life insurance and annuities won’t help the child qualify for aid.
The Case for A Digital Center for Disease Control for Malware
The Black Plague ravaged Europe in middle ages and took an untold number of lives in its wake. Centuries later the Spanish Flu was a horrible malady that took millions of lives. With each outbreak of these contagions people learned a little more from the mistakes and missteps of the past.
Uber Proves Going Local And Partnering Works In China
Uber makes a good case study of how to expand in China's highly competitive but opportunistic market. Going local and partnering are formulas that are working for Uber.
The Unique Trait Successful Leaders Possess
It may have killed the cat, but becoming more curious will create remarkable results.
Collapse Of F1 Team Leaves Caterham Cars $18.7 Million In The Red
Historic British motoring marque Caterham has revealed that it is owed $18.7 million by the Formula One team which carried its name and collapsed in October last year.
Plaxico Burress Shoots Self In Foot (Not Literally This Time), Winds Up In Tax Trouble
In the dying moments of the 2008 Super Bowl, New York Giants wide receive Plaxico Burress did the majority of this country a great service by running a perfect fade route and hauling in the winning touchdown pass from Eli Manning, denying the New England Patriots a perfect season in the process.
Two Brands Who Make A Great Match
History is replete with pairings that made for an odd match, shall we say? Julie Roberts and Lyle Lovett as husband and wife. Bing Crosby and David Bowie duetting on “Little Drummer Boy.”And on and on. Of course I had to use pop culture references, too.
Movers & Shakers: LinkedIn shares sell off after hours on disappointing outlook
LinkedIn Corp. shares lose a quarter of their value after the social media for professionals site issued a disappointing forecast for the quarter and year.
Rackspace Brings Next-Level "Fanatical" Support To Google Apps For Work
Google Apps For Work is an affordable, well established, suite of on-line tools that’s used by a wide range of customers around the globe. And for the most part, the majority of the Apps in the suite are relatively easy to use and don’t require any more technical knowledge than a typical Office application. To fully leverage all of Google Apps For Work’s capabilities though, or perhaps incorporate or integrate data from other existing applications, some specialized technical knowledge is required. And it’s something a large number of businesses aren’t equipped to handle on their own.
Racing Form: Our Annual Handicapping Of Kentucky Derby Horse Names
Each May (since back in 2014), we have looked for the winner in the Run for the Roses, based upon the name of each thoroughbred. Last year’s surprising super-horse was California Chrome; the prediction here was: “This is a 1965 muscle car from GM, is it not? It’s not necessarily the best driver on the road and it may not be the absolutely most reliable way to get from A to B, but it can run.” Chrome almost ran itself into a Triple Crown.
The Good And Evil Of Raising Lots Of Money
How much money to raise is the most difficult discussion between entrepreneurs and investors. The perspectives are different, interests can be misaligned, and the stakes are huge. Here is how the two groups think about the problem.
Here's How Twitter Can Connect Us To The Internet Of Things
Machines already can tweet. Here's the next step in connecting Twitter to the Internet of Things.
Building a World-Class Organization Through Values Based Leadership
Leadership is clearly a big topic for the future of work, which is why a few weeks ago I interviewed Herminia Ibarra, author of Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader. Recently I had the privilege of speaking with Harry Kraemer, the former CEO of Baxter and now professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, where he teaches management and leadership. Many of you are of course familiar with Baxter, the large pharmaceutical company that today has just over 60,000 employees around the world. Harry just released a new book titled, Becoming the Best: Build a World-Class Organization Through Values-Based Leadership which I had the opportunity to read and speak with him about. It was interesting to compare and contract the leadership approaches of both Herminia and Harry.
G/FORE's Rise: Fashion Mogul Shows How a Golf Company Takes Flight
Serial entrepreneur, Mossimo Giannulli, reveals how he built his latest company
DataCapable Uses Twitter Data To Help Utility Companies Resolve Power Outages Quickly
DataCapable is using Twitter data in a new and innovative way.
IRS $20 Million Response To Latest Pile of Lois Lerner Emails Is Worrisome
After all the dog ate my homework excuses from the IRS and Justice Department, 6400 more 'lost' emails are recovered. And the IRS warns us how expensive it is to reveal things, suggesting we never should ask.
Insight On How To Drive Change In A Digital World
One of the biggest challenges for C-level leaders is figuring out how to effectively drive change in a digitally transformed world. To better understand what some of the best-in-class firms are doing, I talked with Caren Fleit, Senior Client Partner and Leader of Korn Ferry’s Global Marketing Center of Expertise, who recently published a white paper (available here) on this topic. What follows is a brief overview of the insight and Fleit’s specific tips for C-level leaders to move from collaboration to integration.
Is The Apple Watch Really A Breakthrough User Interface?
Is the Apple Watch really a breakthrough user interface? This question was originally answered on Quora by Anne Halsall.
Tech Companies Targeted for On-demand Independent Contractors
Employers have long faced difficulties classifying workers as independent contractors in more traditional industries.
AeroFS Goes Free--But Is That A Way Of Competing?
Recently enterprise file sharing and synchronization (EFSS) vendor AeroFS launched a new pricing model whereby organizations with less than 30 users can obtain the product for free. AeroFS is a small company that is trying to compete with some big names - They're broadly in the same category as Box and Dropbox, but their service doesn't store data in the public cloud. AeroFS has something of a novel approach to storage - it allows you to sync files between multiple computers, using the AeroFS servers for authentication only. All data stays on customers' computers and is encrypted in transit.
The Ratings Game: Analysts lower price targets as Yelp stock tumbles
Yelp missed first-quarter earnings expectations Wednesday causing analysts to lower their price targets
Elon Musk Looking Beyond Cars -- Is Tesla's Residential Storage Unit First of More to Come?
Elon Musk is like a magician pulling a rabbit out of the hat. As a person who strongly believes in the word “disruption”—may it be technology or marketing—it can be said his popularity is attributed to his abilities to break the traditional chain, which no one has ever dared in the automotive industry. He is set up to pull one out of the hat today, at his Design Studio in California, and a huge buzz is in the air. Tesla’s investor relations will present their new wall-mounted home battery and “very large” utility-scale battery packs. Though grid-connected battery storage solutions and backup systems have existed in the market, the major restraint was that the conventional battery-powering systems were large and consist of heavy lead acid battery packs, rather than lithium-ion battery packs, after the successful implementation in cars.
IRS Partnership Adjustments In Millions May Produce No Tax
You would think that if a partnership was audited and there was an income adjustment in the millions, that would be really bad news for the partners, but a report just released by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) indicates that such an adjustment might have no effect at all thanks to an undisclosed "specific tolerance amount". The report recommends that the IRS come up with better measurements of the revenue generated by partnership audits. The IRS responded that resource limitation preclude implementation of some of TIGTA's recommendations. Overall the report might be a bit demoralizing to practitioners who strive to get things right in a fairly complex area. On the other hand, those inclined to play the audit lottery (a violation of AICPA ethical standards by the way) would be cheering if they read this report. Of course, the latter crowd does not include a lot of readers of arcane tax material.
How This Startup Stumbled onto Its Genius Bootstrapping Strategy
How a student government project turned into a national effort to improve transportation systems.
Jeff Bezos' Spaceship Takes Flight
Blue Origin, the spaceship company founded by Jeff Bezos, had its first successful test flight yesterday.
The Pitch That Won Mark Cuban's Heart And His Investment
Too often great ideas don’t get traction because the speaker failed to articulate the idea persuasively. Take the time to tell the story behind your idea and why what you offer is different than what's currently in the marketplace.
Instantly Improve Your Conversion Rates With This Simple Hack
Anyone with a website craves one major thing — better conversion rates.
New Horizons Spots Possible Polar Ice Cap On Pluto
New Horizons has picked up a bright spot on Pluto's surface that may indicate a polar ice cap, as it zooms towards its close flyby this summer.
Marco Rubio Would Be Another Obama On Tax Lawmaking
Marco Rubio is having a good couple of weeks. The freshman Republican senator from Florida has surged to the top of polls in the crowded GOP presidential field, outdistancing even former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
Movers & Shakers: Exxon, Taser jolt higher on earnings; Yelp tumbles on results
Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Thursday’s session are New York Times, Exxon Mobil, American International Group, LinkedIn, and FireEye.
Four Lessons Firms Can Learn From Family Businesses
90% of the world’s companies are family firms. The lessons we learn from them: be more conservative and stick with the people you chose. It is a business approach that ensures stability. You might miss some of the upsides of more risk-embracing strategies, but if you want to still be in business a decade from now, family businesses show that playing safe is the way to go.
Need to Know: Here’s the ‘wild card’ for a Fed hike this year
The dollar blowout continues this morning, and if this keeps up, it will help an interest-rate hike happen later this year, says Morgan Stanley. But that’s also a real wild card.
Microsoft Is Sporting a New Attitude - It's Called Innovation
I try not to drink any company's particular brand of Kool-Aid but it was tough not to be impressed by the direction underfoot at Microsoft as I watched its Build 2015 Keynote. Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CEO, is clearly bringing some new magic to the way the company thinks, a renewed innovative spirit, and a broader vision toward the evolution of the digital economy.
Researchers Identify Why 'Agility' In Strategic Plans Is So Hard To Execute
If formulating an effective company strategy is tough, apparently executing that strategy is even tougher. In a recent article in the Harvard Business Review, Why Strategy Execution Unravels – and What to Do About It, authors Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes and Charles Sull examine and summarize work that Donald Sull had started almost a decade ago on how “complex organizations can execute their strategies more effectively.”
The Best Startup Advice From the Drapers, Venture Capital's Royal Family
Guiding entrepreneurs from idea to exit isn't just a job for this clan. It's in their blood.
Jeff Reeves's Strength in Numbers: 750 billion reasons to sell Apple now
Apple’s shares are going nowhere, because it’s become very difficult for the gigantic company to grow fast, says Jeff Reeves.
The Grandmother Who Set the EU's Digital Agenda: Neelie Kroes is Still Crusading
When she left her post last year following ten years as a European Commissioner – five of them as Vice President in charge of the EU’s digital agenda - Neelie Kroes announced she “would not be tending roses in my retirement.” Indeed, one could argue that “Nickel Neelie” or the “Internet Tsar” – as she has been called – has not at all retired at the age of 73, but is instead tending another kind of garden – cultivating fertile ground for growing companies at Start-Up Delta headquartered in Amsterdam. It’s designed to connect all the major innovation hubs in the Netherlands in order to attract new start-up tech firms to what the Dutch government calls the “West Coast of Europe.” It’s a role she was tapped to play by the Prime Minister personally.
The Grandmother Who Set the EU's Digital Agenda: Neelie Kroes is Still Crusading
When she left her post last year following ten years as a European Commissioner – five of them as Vice President in charge of the EU’s digital agenda - Neelie Kroes announced she “would not be tending roses in my retirement.” Indeed, one could argue that “Nickel Neelie” or the “Internet Tsar” – as she has been called – has not at all retired at the age of 73, but is instead tending another kind of garden – cultivating fertile ground for growing companies at Start-Up Delta headquartered in Amsterdam. It’s designed to connect all the major innovation hubs in the Netherlands in order to attract new start-up tech firms to what the Dutch government calls the “West Coast of Europe.” It’s a role she was tapped to play by the Prime Minister personally.
LulzBot 3D Printers: A Glimpse Into The Future of American Manufacturing
During the 3DRV roadtrip, I had the opportunity to use and see many 3D printers in action. Over and over, one printer emerged as a favorite by the people and businesses I would meet, for not only its ease-of-use, but more so for its customer support: the LulzBot TAZ 5 and the LulzBot Mini, which is owned by Aleph Objects in Loveland, Colorado.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Movers & Shakers: New York Times, Exxon, AIG, LinkedIn, FireEye earnings in focus
Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Thursday’s session are New York Times, Exxon Mobil, American International Group, LinkedIn, and FireEye.
How To Do Great Things, Starting Right Now
What you need most in order to achieve your dreams is wired into you from birth; here's how to access it.
Etsy Introduces "Open Call" for Sellers to Pitch Big Name Retailers
Etsy (NASDAQ: ETSY) is known for being a creative destination for consumers to source fun finds for their homes, wardrobes and more... so it's no surprise Etsy continues to think outside the box when it comes to marketing and promoting Etsy Wholesale, Etsy's private, juried marketplace that introduces retailers and other buyers to items they can't find anywhere else.
How Quirky's Growing Pains Are Challenging Its Entire Business
Ben Kaufman, the brash young founder of crowdsourced-products company Quirky, is facing the first major test of his tenure as an entrepreneur.
8 Ways Buying Luxury Will Change
The way we buy luxury in the future is going to change. The questions of how and when were discussed by industry experts at the "Luxury Insights Summit" in New York.
Marissa Mayer's Compensation Climbed to $42 Million in 2014
Despite investor concerns about the health of the business, the Yahoo CEO's pay package rose 69 percent last year.
Tell Us The Rumor Isn't True, Salesforce....
Salesforce.com's manic enthusiasm for its ever-expanding product line has created the clear impression over the years that it loves what it does and believes that no one, anywhere, could do it better.
How Microsoft Office Became A Whole Computing 'Platform'
Microsoft says that Office is a platform. But you may have only thought of Office as ‘a piece of software’ before now. You may have classified Office as a core set of Windows apps supplied on a CD-ROM before the advent of cloud and Office 365. You may have even considered Office to be a ‘suite of integrated productivity applications’ if you are formal about these things. But you probably didn’t think of Office as a platform.
Notes From RSA: Accountability In Security
At the RSA Security Conference last week in San Francisco, I had the opportunity to sit down with the founder of Whitehat Security, Jeremiah Grossman. In a quiet corner of a hotel restaurant we chatted about things that we had seen at the conference.
A Possible Microsoft Write-down Of Nokia Investment Doesn't Freak Street
Deep inside Microsoft's 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission is what clearly looks like a disturbing disclosure: The company's $9.4-billion purchase of the Nokia handset business may be flopping.
Safeguarding Data in the Turbulent Cyber Age
Muddu Sudhakar is a seasoned and successful entrepreneur with more than 20 years experience working with Silicon Valley companies. He co-founded and is currently CEO of Caspida, a cybersecurity company based in Palo Alto, Calif. that detects unknown and hidden threats without rules, signatures, sandboxing or human analysis. Caspida uses data-driven analytics to uncover APTs, zero days, malware and insider threats. Prior to Caspida, Muddu has held leadership and management roles focused on cloud and Big Data analytics technologies at leading companies including VMware, Pivotal, Cetas, EMC, Kazeon and Sanera.
Movers & Shakers: Yelp shares drop after results miss Street view
Yelp shares drop in the extended session Wednesday after the business-ratings website’s quarterly results fall short of Wall Street estimates.
Safeguarding Data in the Turbulent Cyber Age
Muddu Sudhakar is a seasoned and successful entrepreneur with more than 20 years experience working with Silicon Valley companies. He co-founded and is currently CEO of Caspida, a cybersecurity company based in Palo Alto, Calif. that detects unknown and hidden threats without rules, signatures, sandboxing or human analysis. Caspida uses data-driven analytics to uncover APTs, zero days, malware and insider threats. Prior to Caspida, Muddu has held leadership and management roles focused on cloud and Big Data analytics technologies at leading companies including VMware, Pivotal, Cetas, EMC, Kazeon and Sanera.
Museums Embrace Virtual Tourism With Beam
Suitable Technologies and eight US museums have partnered to give people with immobility or disabilities the opportunity and ability to visit and virtually tour museums in other cities or countries and not even leave their homes.
Earnings Outlook: What to watch for in LinkedIn’s earnings
LinkedIn is on tap to report first-quarter earnings after the market close on Thursday.
EquityEats Tries to Apply Crowdfunding to Restaurants in D.C.
Crowdfunding meets equity.
For years now, there’s been chatter about crowdfunding taking a leap further, offering not just donations, but investments. Like a design on Kickstarter? You can invest in the company -- not just offer a one-time contribution for a freebie.
That’s yet to happen, largely because of regulations prohibiting everyday folks (with salaries less than $200,000) to invest in companies. To be an investor, one must be an “accredited investor” according to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
DC-based EquityEats tried to pilot this concept last year. Johann Moonesinghe and his co-founders, Jason Pinto, Andrew Harris, and Steve Lucas, launched a crowdfunding site devoted to helping food entrepreneurs.
Cybersecurity Insomnia? BT Assure Cyber May Help You Sleep At Night
No security will ever be perfect, which is simply another way of saying that perfect security is infinitely expensive. Any organization must balance the costs of security investments with the risks those investments mitigate. With offerings like BT Assure Cyber, enterprises can raise such risk analysis to the strategic business level where it belongs.
The Wall Street Journal: Microsoft reaches out to Android, apple app developers
Microsoft plans to make it easier for developers to modify apps for Windows devices.
Real-World Economics For Boomers
I’m just one Baby Boomer….trying to understand real world economics. I do this for a living, but I’m also developing a keen interest in real money. Not Samuelson’s “Economics”….but the real dollar in my pocket. Real effects on innovative companies and workers I see worldwide.
The Ratings Game: GoPro’s virtual reality bet a win on Wall Street
GoPro’s stronger-than-expected quarter and expansion into virtual reality video get applauds on Wall Street.
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