Amazon remains on top for customer satisfaction.
Amazon remains on top with customer satisfaction as Apple’s online store slid out of the top five, according to an online retailer study by Foresee. In fact, Apple had its lowest score in four years, achieving only an 80 percent rating.
About 112,000 natural-gas powered vehicles are now on U.S. roads.
Chesapeake Energy Corp. said it is working with General Electric Co GE and Whirlpool Corp. to develop a $500 appliance that will allow natural-gas powered cars to be refueled at their owners’ homes.
Continue reading… “Energy company developing home refueling appliance for natural-gas cars”
We now have real data to accompany all the anecdotal stories about the ongoing “Series A crunch” for tech startups. CB Insights, a venture capital analysis firm, has released a new seed financing report that digs into some real numbers about the situation.
Continue reading… “More that 1,000 startups are destined to be abandoned at the Series A stage”
Shell, and others, see the export of the super-cooled natural gas as a lucrative venture.
While oil development continue to dominate the Royal Dutch Shell portfolio, the energy developer is now making plans to invest heavily in liquefied natural gas, or LNG. Shell, and others, see the export of the super-cooled natural gas as a lucrative venture.
Continue reading… “Companies pave way for natural gas fueled cars and trucks”
Futurist Thomas Frey: When is the last time you heard a statement that caused you to stop dead in your tracks?
It doesn’t happen very often, but for each of us, there are a few unusual sound bites that will permeate our senses and sway our thinking.
Continue reading… “Eight Shocking Quotes from 2012 that will Redefine Our Future”
Google has been acting as a copyright cop.
Google reports that in the past six months it’s takedown too for search results has grown tenfold. Around 250,000 requests a week went through the system when it started publicly posting takedown notices in May — which lets people or companies ask Google to remove links that infringe on their copyright. Now, that number has jumped to over 2.5 million a week. That’s a huge change, but not an unprecedented one, as requests have been increasing rapidly for the past several years. Back in May, Google reported that the 250,000 requests it received in a week were more than it got for the entirety of 2009.
Continue reading… “Google gets 2.5 million copyright removal requests every week”
The mentor-protégé relationship isn’t nearly as common as it used to be.
It used to in the past that mentors and coaches were assigned to employees. Workers were given a very clear road map to follow, and the definitions of success were clear (even if some of them were crazy).
Continue reading… “The future of mentorship”
Futurist Thomas Frey: How many extra shavers, bars of soap, or cans of soup do you currently have on your shelves at home? How much money do you currently have tied up in “inventory” of typical household items? What if you could get by without any?
Continue reading… “Moving from Just-in-Case to Just-in-Time Living”
Incubators and accelerators are churning out thousands of startups a year.
There has been a glut of tech incubators and accelerators and for over a year now we have been warned about them. With at least 100 such programs churning out thousands of startups a year and the expectation that 90 percent of them won’t return their money, the seeming launch of a new accelerator program each week is a valid concern.
Continue reading… “Accelerators are headed for a shakeout”
Rich beyond belief.
Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook are at each others throats. So this has become an epic story of warring factions in a strange and changing landscape, a tale of incursions and sieges, of plots and betrayals, of battlefield brilliance and of cunning with coin.
Continue reading… “Apple, Google, Amazon, And Facebook have declared World War 3”
Futurist Thomas Frey: When you buy a stock, you place a bet on how that stock will perform in the future. In a perfect world, where market insiders and manipulators are removed from the equation, the market is a terrific tool for determining the true value of companies being invested in.
Continue reading… “Will Big Data Destroy the Stock Market?”
Chegg
Healthcare and public education are the least functional parts of our economy for one reason. In neither is the person receiving the treatment the one actually paying the bill.
Continue reading… “Chegg represents a bold new philosophy that’s changing commerce”
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