Friday, March 14, 2014

There is no better time than now to be a tech entrepreneur, to develop a world-changing startup (Economic Times, Thu, 13 Mar 2014, Page 19)

Yes, young Indians have higher aspirations than their parents had.
The good news is that can they can fulfil those aspirations. If they want to become entrepreneurs and follow in the footsteps of the Tatas and Birlas, it won't take them decades or...

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Machines put half of U.S. jobs at risk: study (The StarPhoenix, Thu, 13 Mar 2014, Page D3)

SAN FRANCISCO — Who needs an army of lawyers when you have a computer?
When Minneapolis lawyer William Greene faced the task of combing through 1.3 million electronic documents in a recent case, he turned to a so-called smart computer program. Three...

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Sunday, March 9, 2014

Drive for efficiency is creating drone economy (Chicago Tribune)

Drive for efficiency is creating drone economy (Chicago Tribune, Sun, 09 Mar 2014, Page 36)
There's a red-light camera on watch around the clock in place of a corner police officer. If that slows us down, our I-Pass enables us to whiz past the remaining manned booths on the tollway. When we fly, we may be directed to check ourselves in online...

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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

IBM cuts jobs across US, but one state appears spared (The Reporter (Lansdale, PA), Mon, 03 Mar 2014, Page D1)

IBM began laying off employees across the country last week as part of a massive restructuring that could cost as many as 13,000 jobs.
Workers were fired in Vermont, Massachusetts, Arizona, Iowa, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, New York and...

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