La société tente de répondre à l'incapacité des fermes de serveurs à faire face à l'explosion des données à mesure que l'usage des capteurs se généralise . « Quand j'ai rejoint Microsoft en 1992, la totalité du trafic sur Internet était de 100 gigabytes par jour. Aujourd'hui, c'est 17,5 millions de fois ce montant... par...
In its bid to become the “Amazon of travel” Ryanair is diversifying into additional travel products. While flights will always be the “meat on the plate”, the company is selling more hotel rooms, holidays and car hires services, leveraging data on its 20 million My Ryanair members to offer tailored packages. This has meant taking...
I was invited to pitch to the global marketing team of a large, prestigious brand. They were looking for a major piece of international marketing training. I was up against two bigger firms but I fancied my chances given I knew the sector well and the company in question had specifically invited me to make...
Chatting with Stacey Mosley in a small coffee shop opposite Philadelphia’s City Hall, we are interrupted by someone insisting Mosley be introduced to a companion. Slender, soft-spoken and affable, Mosley finds herself in an usual position: She is a 30-year-old female entrepreneur and data scientist disrupting an aggressively old-school industry — real estate development. But...
We all know the requiem for retail in the 21st century. The big-box megastores killed off the mom-and-pops. Amazon and e-commerce crushed brick-and-mortar. By the time the Great Recession hit, traditional retail was already toast — and the drop in consumer spending that came with the crisis burned it to a crisp. Amid the general...
Some of this rise in the interior’s importance is based on the trickle-down impact of logistics. The average American commute has increased by more than twenty percent since 1980, and globally in mega-cities like Beijing and Cairo, time in the car can stretch out toward the unimaginable. And so people create more requirements of their...
But for the moment, the market isn’t optimistic. Snap reported revenue of $149.6 million in the first quarter of 2017, a significant gain from the $39 million it pulled in during the same period one year ago but below Wall Street’s expectations of $159 million. The Los Angeles-based company also added 8 million new daily...
THINGS DON’T LOOK good for Uber and autonomous vehicle wunderkind Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer who now leads the startup’s robocar program. This week, US District Court William Alsup made two decisive decisions in the lawsuit between Google’s autonomous vehicle spinoff Waymo and Uber. You know, the one accusing Levandowski of swiping 14,000 confidential...
Expects new iPhones to start at $999 and “drive meaningful upside.” From a note to investors Friday by Goldman Sachs analyst Simona Jankowski: The next iPhone is shaping up to be the most anticipated iPhone since the launch of the iPhone 6 in September 2014, driven by a major redesign marking the 10-year anniversary of...
Another easy change? Start using a student response system. As you discuss a topic, present the class with a multiple choice question and let students discuss it and vote on the answer. If they answer correctly, great, move on. If not, explain why the answer is incorrect and let them try again. I find that...
