Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2019

Then look ahead to assess the likelihood that your job could be eliminated with new technology, artificial intelligence, or robots. The good news is that this exercise, if done well, will be the best evidence to support your next raise request, as well as showing your readiness for the new gig economy.

Artificial Inteligence

Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2018

Mountain View, CA-based Diffbot gleans unstructured data scattered across websites, ads, blog posts, videos, and other public online assets to create a knowledge repository that can be mined by companies for their specific purposes.

Web

Xconomy

APRIL 9, 2018

As readers know, we strive to cover a wide range of innovation sectors, from tech and life sciences to healthcare and education—all with a mix of on-the-ground reporting, daily news stories, in-depth features and analysis, and events and conferences.

News

Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

Any year-end review of technology news must also include reports on Russian hacking of the 2016 election campaign, and the manipulation of social media channels to spread false and divisive political messages.

Technical Review

Xconomy

JANUARY 17, 2020

Perhaps the most talked-about news at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference this week was a new startup that launched with $200 million and an ambitious claim its first drug would be approved within five years, and 10 more within as many years.

Conference

Xconomy

JANUARY 7, 2019

Looking back over the past two years, it seems that public perceptions of tech companies have shifted, compared with the eager acceptance that often prevailed as innovations from these businesses transformed social interactions, transportation, and other aspects of life.

Web

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Roger McNamee, in a podcast interview with The New York Times , says the company is a dangerous, predatory instrument that uses the fun and convenience of its app to get users addicted.

Advertising

Xconomy

MAY 25, 2018

A few years before the presidential election of 2016, with all its Wikileaks, Russian disinformation campaigns, and phony Facebook links, San Diego’s Mitek Systems (NASDAQ: MITK made a strategic decision to expand into identity verification technology. Funny how things work out.

Mobile

Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2016

There’s plenty more news to chew on as well, from the latest developments in the Zika battle to biotech’s sigh of relief when Medicare spending cuts were avoided (for now). The FDA still has to clear the study, but if it does, it’s sure to become one of the most closely watched scientific events in more than a decade. Let’s get right to it.

Research

Xconomy

JULY 17, 2018

Selling a new Web-connected thermostat or other wired gizmo to consumers without a plan to deliver the necessary security patches is not only bad business—it’s unethical. So is failing to challenge a law or tech company rule that governs work on technology products, if that rule causes unjustifiable harms to people or the environment.

Web

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

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Southern California

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

As we’ve come to expect, however, there was no dearth of health and life-sciences news from Washington, D.C. A short week makes for a shorter roundup.

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