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Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do… The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything that doesn't violate too many of Newton's Laws!
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Rhode Island-based CVS Health, operator of Minute Clinics and the country's second-biggest drugstore chain, is planning to open a technology development center in Boston this winter. Chief Digital Officer Brian Tilzer tells me that the CVS Health Digital Innovation Lab will fit about 100 people — some of whom will move from CVS HQ in Woonsocket, and some of whom will be new hires.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. named 78 employees to join the ranks of its so-called partners, a title that offers unique perks and recalls the bank’s history as Wall Street’s last major private firm.
Could this new social media network threaten Facebook?
Last time I saw signs of a new social network, it was Twitter. I was a late adopter, still am. I'm going to bury the lede, so just indulge me. I wondered what all these weird links were; that was before I knew the wonder of Bit.ly. I need the younger MBA students and colleagues to tell me what apps are cool, and I ask the teenagers in my extended family what their friends use.
It's pretty well known that Facebook has ubiquity going for it, but it's quite a bore most of the time. I describe changes in Web content and sharing technology as an evolutionary process - each new technology replaces the prior and breaks down walls that prevented people from communicating, makes it easier to penetrate new circles.
Take the process of applying for jobs. When I was in high school and college, I snail mailed resumes. Then everyone had a fax and those submissions had a better chance. Then email replaced mail and fax. Now we have LinkedIn.
When it comes to interpersonal communication, letters were replaced by phones. Then email came but managing the constant flurry of messages leads to unsent drafts, missed correspondence and the like. Then came social. Facebook is now active because it's one place where we can communicate with multiple people and see pictures of their kids, whether we like it or not. Occasionally it's useful to crowd-source ideas but solicited help in any way construed as an ad or advertorial leads to a low number of "likes."
And of course Zuck and Sandberg went the way of the ad model, after adopting Google's URL (Ubiquity First, Revenue Later) model, one could argue. But, increasingly I personally struggle with the idea of heading to a major corporation because struggle as I may with bureaucracy in academia, I believe in the mission of teaching and research. I am not selling anything to anyone, per se, at least not directly. But media is. Rare is the viable media business with a paid subscription model.
So, if Ello, which ironically I heard about on Facebook from two people, thinks it can build a sustainable ad-free model, I say bring it. I was one of the few that paid $1 for Pandora once I exceeded the 40 hours a month limit and I did it happily. What's $1? Outside NYC, it won't buy you a coffee - no Egyptian guys in coffee carts in Boston:(
Time will tell if this works. I'm just joined the waiting list. But I do know I can't resist mentioning that genius quote from Marshall McLuhan, because it does truly seem as though "the medium is the message."
Click here for the Business Insider article on Ello.
New program, Advancing Wellness, combines academics with on-the-ground initiatives to promote better health at MIT and beyond.
Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle and the tech industry’s second-richest man, has stepped aside as chief executive of the US database software company to take on a new role as its chairman and chief technology officer. The move closely mirrors the
CalPERS Bails on Hedge Fund Investments
CalPERS, the California Public Employees Retirement System, announced it is yanking its full hedge fund investment of $4 billion. According to Bloomberg, the fund spent $135 million in fees for the fiscal year that ended June 30 for hedge fund investments that earned 7.1%.
The Bloomberg roundtable noted that the issue is not that hedgies don't provide a hefty return, which they often do. The issue for CalPERS, Bloomberg noted, was that for the hedge fund investment to "move the needle" given the cost (fees - 2/20), their investment would need to be ~10% of the CalPERS portfolio, which presents a risk issue for the fund.
Apple Inc. will reap fees from banks when consumers use an iPhone in place of credit and debit cards for purchases, a deal that gives the handset maker a cut of the growing market for mobile payments, according to three people with knowledge of the arrangement.
"The majority owner of Shake Shack, the Union Square Hospitality Group, has been interviewing banks to potentially run an initial public offering of the fast-food chain, a person briefed on the matter said on Friday."
In a day of major upheavals at Condé Nast, the publisher finally gave up on reviving Lucky on its own. The company will spin off its 14-year-old shopping magazine into a joint venture with BeachMin...
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