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Innovation
Elon Musk is the unstoppable innovation juggernaut of our time. He has taken us to space, and is single-handedly leading us into a new age in energy. However his company, Tesla, is plagued by issues …
Indus OS accommodates the hundreds of millions of Indians who do not speak English. There's an article in Bloomberg that portrays the success of India's homegrown smartphone operating syst…
On the face of it, the "industrial Internet" is something of an oxymoron. Industry implies manufacturing goods, whereas the Internet implies a weightless economy in which transactions are c…
Dig USC President Max Nikias trying to get down with Dre. This is an interesting idea for innovation in higher education: is gangsta rap impresario Dr. Dre your idea of a college benefactor? He doesn…
Sometimes 2000 shoes just ain't enough. David Byrne should be familiar to 80s music fans as the Talking Heads frontman of " Burning Down the House " fame. Together with Fatboy Slim, the…
You're showing your age if you remember "master charge" (all small caps). I'm kind of surprised Apple didn't name its payments service "iPay." It could have eased the …
Will Facebook and Twitter "save" America? you must be joking. You may say it's rich for someone with an online-only presence to say that "the Internet doesn't matter," but…
There's an excellent infographic over at Businessweek on where its workforce comes from both inside the United States and outside of it. There are some highly interesting results: First, Mexico…
Where's the 'bridge'? Getouttahere! The shipping industry's importance to global trade cannot be overstated. Depending on your source, 80-90% of all traded goods are exchanged via shi…
There's an interesting article from the Commonwealth publication Global: The International Briefing which goes into that age-old question of why the Chinese are not especially innovative despit…
Last Thursday our home computer running Windows XP was infected by a fairly old autorun.inf virus. For, we accidentally brought home an infected USB thumb drive from the workplace, which has comput…
[NOTE: For those who don't get the title, play this AC/DC song .] There are two broad debates going on regarding the current dominance of Samsung in the consumer electronics space. First we hav…
A very fair criticism I do understand as an undergraduate and masters level business major is the non-emergence of internationally recognized Chinese and Indian brands. While there is no shortage of …
