While cyber-attacks on large financial institutions tend to garner the most attention, smaller community-based financial businesses are experiencing attempted breaches more often these days from hacktivists and cyber gangs to…
The Harvard Business Review notes that “literature on this subject is enormous. Much of the early work focused on the adoption rate of new technologies following an S-curve, with some…
If the popular media provides any indication, surely the hottest current technology — or device — is the Apple Watch, which becomes available for pre-order tomorrow. But from a global business…
Silicon Valley is a destination for the young emerging tech talent of the world. This geographic hub has fostered the growth on hundreds of starts ups, some eventually gathering monumental…
“Ever since the Industrial Revolution, people have worried about machines taking jobs away from humans,” Fast Company reports. “Fears about employment track with every new technology, from the first automated…
Defense spending has been a key driver of technology and innovation in the United States since the beginning of the Cold War, according to Yale Insights. “Silicon Valley’s early growth…
In 2014, private capital investors made an enormous leap in supporting new payment technologies and mobile banking. The Wall Street Journal reported that venture capital investment in the payment sector…
“Although fears that technology will displace jobs are at least as old as the Luddites, there are signs that this time may really be different. The technological breakthroughs of recent…
“Boardroom commanders are being assigned to basic training,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Fearful their companies will fall behind because top bosses don’t have a firm grasp of technology or…
It’s that time of year. Nearly every business publication is listing its top trends for 2015. Here are some, with no guarantees on how these predictions might turn out! Sales trends:…
