(This is a guest post by my coauthor on Modern Monopolies, Nicholas Johnson.) What a mess. Facebook once again finds itself at the heart of a media firestorm after revelations that Cambridge Analytica had unauthorized access to data on 50 million users. To some extent, this issue has been massively blown out of proportion. This […]
Declining markets are typically those in which annual industry revenue steadily decreases due to the saturation of a market, a decline in the market size, or the introduction of technology or a product that acts as a replacement. Transportation is an example of a market that has suffered a great many setbacks, due in part
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In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in some seriously hot water. The scandal – in which data mining firm Cambridge Analytica gained improper access to more than 50 million Facebook users’ data, which they may have used to unethically influence voters during the 2016 election cycle
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has responded to the Cambridge Analytica scandal that has embroiled Facebook since last Friday, and which wiped tens of billions of dollars off the social network’s market value. The scandal centers on British data company Cambridge Analytica, which has ties to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and which illicitly obtained information from as
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A few years ago, I heard a piece of advice from a New York City restaurant inspector that has stayed with me. The nature of his job–looking for, and finding, vermin and other health violations in commercial kitchens–had turned this man off restaurants altogether. He brown-bagged all his lunches. In the rare instances where he
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Uber shut down its self-driving technology testing after one of its cars struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona. This obviously is terrible for the victim and her family and the resulting problems that Uber faces are far less important in the grand scheme. But there is a parallel business question about how much
Steve Papermaster has roughly 30 years of experience as a career technology entrepreneur, public policy expert and author, which includes service as senior advisor to President George W. Bush concerning domestic and global strategy for innovation, technology and science. Today, the Chairman and CEO of Nano Vision, which focuses on delivery of nanotechnology-powered innovations, is working with his
TayebMEZAHDIA / Pixabay What’s real and what’s hype in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning As with all new technology, emotions run wild and our excitement gets the better of us. The hype is everywhere — projections of an AI-ruled planet akin to something out of a science fiction movie and computers that can almost read
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How To Sync Your Audio From The Zoom H1 To Your Video In this screencast tutorial video, I show you two methods to sync the recorded audio from your Zoom H1 digital audio recorder (or any audio record) to the video from your camera (a Sony RX100 V in this case). The software I used
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E-commerce has reached a tipping point. More than half of consumers now prefer to shop online, and e-commerce sales are growing by 23 percent annually. The $6.59 billion spent last Cyber Monday was the single largest online shopping total in history. Yet despite all the activity online, 46 percent of American small businesses still don’t have their own website. And even
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