?? You may have wondered why so many things seem to be harder and take longer to accomplish than you would like???and why both those situations seem to be increasing. We don't have the answer in every case, but here is an explanation that probably covers the majority of them:?? The way we have been ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 14:20

Guest post written by??Rajeev Batra and Robin Vasan Rajeev Batra and Robin Vasan invest in early-stage companies that leverage the drivers of big data, cloud infrastructure and SaaS applications at the Mayfield Fund. In tech circles, the??new paradigm of handling massive volumes of information has dominated the discussion about the future of enterprise for a ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 22:25

Guest post written by Irfan Khan Irfan Khan is chief technology officer at Sybase, a unit of SAP. The sky is falling. Again. This time it's Big Data raining down on IT departments. But just like Chicken Little and aliens from outer space, the Big Data crisis is fiction. A Big Lie. Like an urban ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 01:26

Guess earned $95 million, or $1.05 a share, in the fourth quarter. This met lowered Wall Street expectations.

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 22:24

Tim Tebow is coming to New York, and not everyone's happy about it, nor should they be. Mark Sanchez, the Jets' incumbent starting quarterback, definitely shouldn't be; his job is a lot less safe than it was this morning. Cornerback Antonio Cromartie isn't; he knows this is the mother of all distractions for a team that doesn't need more. Some Jets fans are, but some aren't, and the latter have a pretty good argument: For a team whose problem is an inaccurate, inconsistent quarterback, Tebow is a pretty weird solution. You know who is happy, though? You know who is beyond ecstatic -- probably, at this moment, rolling on the floor in paralyzing mirth? That would be the top editors of the New York Post and the New York Daily News, and their bosses, owners Rupert Murdoch and Mort Zuckerman.

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 20:55

Sometimes, what seems like a little story is actually quite extraordinary. That's what happened earlier this month, when what seemed like business as usual thousands of miles away came and went without a lot of attention. That business, with the bang of a gavel, was the Swiss parliament amending their tax treaty with the United ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 02:34

Everyone has heard of the monster returns to some venture funds from high-flyng social media and technology companies: Facebook's potential??800x for Accel, 's??350x for KPCB and Sequoia, Zynga's??100x+ for Union Square, Foundry, and Avalon.?? These single big tech wins returned (or will return) multiples of their entire funds. The sad reality is that these types ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 00:48

The decision by New York City's Mayor Bloomberg to stand behind Goldman Sachs (GS) ? in the wake of the negative news commotion raised when former GS employee Greg Smith damned the firm?s culture in a major New York Times op-ed piece ? was neither unexpected nor inappropriate. The question is: was it was handled ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 21:32

Say what you will about the benefits of clean energy or the costs of pollution, the jury has returned an ambiguous verdict on the greening of the commercial real-estate market.?? The niche has become mainstream. ??Anyone who says green buildings, which are certified by third-party verifiers as demonstrating superior environmental performance and resource efficiency, are ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 05:23

Are work schedules affecting your marriage? A new study shows that a heavier workload actually improves things at home.

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 20:24