Innovations: The media revolution that isn’t being televised

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At last, sensible immigration reform may have a chance in Washington Immigration reform has stalled because of ugly Republican politics and an insistence by the Democrats that it be all or nothing. This has taken a toll on the country’s economic growth and global competitiveness. Witness the rise of Chinese companies such as Alibaba and Xiaomi — which now have their eyes on U.S. markets — …  Read full article »

3 reasons why the Internet of Things (still) doesn’t make sense

If there was one big buzzword out of this year’s CES, it was the “Internet of Things.” Just about every major tech company seemingly wants to sell products or services as part of the Internet of Things. According to Cisco chief executive John Chambers, the Internet of Things could be a $19 trillion opportunity, with more …  Read full article »

Mark Zuckerberg explains why it drives him crazy when people say he made Facebook

Everyone knows Mark Zuckerberg as the Facebook founder. The kid in the Harvard dorm room who launched the Web site that changed the world. But that romantic notion of a sole inventor toiling alone is generally a myth in the annals of technology. Walter Isaacson, author of The Innovators, dispels it his excellent book on …  Read full article »

Carmakers keep investing in apps that tell you not to drive. Here’s why that’s a shrewd move.

How city-dwellers get from point A to point B keeps getting more attention, and car ownership is getting left in the rear-view mirror. Moovit, a public transportation app that uses crowdsourcing to help commuters pick the fastest route, announced Wednesday that it has raised $50 million from a handful of investors, including BMW iVentures. Car manufacturers …  Read full article »

The media revolution that isn’t being televised

Millennials are driving transformation of the paid video market, accelerating a wave of disruptive innovation that pre-dates the Internet. That’s a message that sounded loud and clear last week at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where incumbents and start-ups alike announced dramatic new products and services, and where executives from leading incumbents … Read full article »

If community college is going to be free, coding boot camps should be free, too

If the fundamental premise of President Obama’s new initiative to make community college free is to open up career and life opportunities for the nation’s young — especially those from underprivileged backgrounds — then the federal government should also be thinking of ways to cover the tuition costs of individuals attending coding boot camps. Instead … Read full article »