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Tim Cook Talks Apple Antitrust Probe, Remote Work, Relationship With Trump
Monday, September 21, 2020 - 11:46pm | 505Read More...Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook in an interview with the Atlantic on Monday discussed several events surrounding the consumer electronics company of late. Apple All For Antitrust Probe: Cook suggested that he doesn't find the lawmakers' probe into antitrust...
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Highlights From Detroit's CityLab Conference
Thursday, November 1, 2018 - 2:16pm | 824Read More...Detroit is a city rich in history with narratives of achievement and revival that continue to unfold. The city played host to The Atlantic's CityLab conference, welcoming leaders, executives and peers from around the world to discuss the challenges faced by cities. “Cities are...
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Clinton Joins O'Malley, Sanders In Push For Affordable Higher Education
Wednesday, August 12, 2015 - 4:18pm | 1329Read More...Hillary Clinton became the last of the three major Democratic contenders for the Oval Office to roll out a plan to make college more affordable for young Americans. Clinton joined former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley and Vermont Independent senator Bernie Sanders in the quest to make...
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Saudi Arabia And The Quest For Solar Power
Friday, June 26, 2015 - 2:53pm | 975Read More...The modern Saudi Kingdom was built on black gold. The Arabian nation ranks second in the world in petroleum reserves and second in crude oil production, accounting for 13 percent of global supply. Although the Saudi economy is firmly rooted to the earth, the future may be in the sky. Without...
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What Do High School Grads Do Every Day?
Monday, July 7, 2014 - 2:12pm | 588Read More...What 87 percent of high school graduates do every day is participate in their favorite social network. That social network isn’t Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), or Snapchat. It isn’t even Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube. According to Niche, which conducted a survey of 7,000...
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3 Ways Robots Will Benefit Mass Journalism
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 - 11:39am | 1063Read More...The Associated Press made a historic announcement this week that it would be using automation technology to write company earnings reports. Many are asserting that this decision indicates that another middle-class job is being replaced by technology, that writers will soon be taken...
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The Atlantic - The Greater Recession: America Suffers from a Crisis of Productivity
Thursday, September 8, 2011 - 1:10pm | 1362Read More...It is good to see in the past 12+ months more and more of the mainstream press 'getting it' from the perspective of rather than just taking political sound bites, they are looking under the covers to see the structural issues that have manifested in the country the past decade or two. While these...
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Apple Makes $350+ on Every iPhone Sold
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - 6:00am | 186Read More...Now you know why Apple prefers to sell hardware, not software. The Atlantic and Visual.ly have an amusing (if not scary) infographic from iSuppli that reveals that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is making an average of $368 for every iPhone sold. This is based on an average selling price of $560 and...
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Predatory Algos Raking It In (GS)
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - 10:21am | 344Read More...We found an interesting article over at theatlantic.com about the pervasiveness of algorithmic trading in today's markets. Most market participants are aware of the fact that 70% of all U.S. equity trades are triggered by fast moving computers designed to make millions of trades per day. Average...
