Given a Cambrian explosion of digital data over the last decade, businesses are struggling to make sense of all the information in their possession and turn it into something comprehensible. On Thursday, a search start-up called ThoughtSpot revealed a new product called SpotIQ to automate that task. SpotIQ employs artificial intelligence to create hundreds of […]
Read moreCisco Systems CEO Chuck Robbins said Thursday that CEOs who abandoned President Donald Trump‘s special councils followed their conscience and now it is time for everyone to move forward. “As we look at what’s going on in our country today, we need to drive job growth, we need to drive GDP growth. …We need tax […]
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FIREWORKS detonated, smoke wafted over the stage and confetti began to fall. Seventeen thousand fans cheered the European players of Team Liquid, with monikers like “MinD_ContRoL” and “MATUMBAMAN”, who had just triumphed over a Chinese side to win The International, a tournament held in Seattle’s KeyArena on August 7th-12th. In the stands Max Martinez, a […]
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LAST year California Solar Systems (CSS), a small installer of residential solar panels, decided to “Buy American”. It turned to Suniva, a Chinese-owned firm that makes photovoltaic panels in Georgia and Michigan, rather than use cheap imports. But according to CSS’s boss, Bastel Wardak, Suniva was unable to deliver what it promised, leading to unacceptable […]
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THE Innovation, a 147-metre ship docked in Rotterdam, looks like a cross between an oil rig and a robot from a “Transformers” film. Her crane has been loading on giant pipes throughout the night. Soon the ship will travel to sea, where an automated hammer will drive the pipes into the ocean floor to support […]
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BEING tough on China was a constant theme of President Donald Trump’s election campaign. On August 14th he had another chance to wield his presidential pen to show that he is making good on his promises—in this case of a “zero-tolerance policy on intellectual-property theft and forced technology transfer”. With the cameras rolling, he formally […]
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QIN SHIHUANG was the emperor who first unified China, through bloody conquest more than two millennia ago. Known for starting the Great Wall and burying scholars alive, he has a new claim to fame: the central bank has drawn on his construction of a national road system to help explain its new monetary system. In […]
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“YOU cannot serve both God and money,” admonishes the Bible. But the church has always tried. In the Middle Ages monasteries were what would now be termed social enterprises. They would produce bread, books or other goods. A Franciscan monk is credited with codifying double-entry book-keeping. These days the Catholic church and related institutions control […]
Read moreBitcoin climbed above $4,500 to a record high Thursday, giving it a market valuation larger than that of Netflix. The digital currency has a market value of about $74 billion, up $30 billion in August and topping Netflix’s $72.7 billion market capitalization. Bitcoin climbed about 2 percent to a record high of $4,522.13 Thursday, according […]
Read moreWith stocks hovering around record highs, investors have been on the watch for signs that enthusiasm is getting out of hand. However, the source of real market bubbles could be in some less obvious places. Two areas stand out: initial coin offerings for cryptocurrencies, which are getting plenty of attention due to their meteoric price […]
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