May 16
Days before Facebook’s initial public offering, a survey of the general population gives a sobering view of what Facebook needs to justify its market value. The poll was sponsored by the Associated Press and CNBC and conducted by GfK Roper between May 3rd and 7th of 2012. It was a random phone survey of 1004 adults …
Permanent link to this article: http://betweenthenumbers.net/2012/05/facebook-faces-challenges-according-to-a-new-poll/
May 07
Salesforce.com.com (NYSE: CRM) reported its yearly earnings in February. As a publicly traded company, Salesforce.com is required to issue annual financial reports in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or “GAAP”. While Salesforce.com presents GAAP-based earnings in its SEC filings, its management touts a different metric as the preferred method of measuring the company’s performance. …
Permanent link to this article: http://betweenthenumbers.net/2012/05/between-the-numbers-of-salesforce-com/
Apr 27
Google’s recent announcement that they were beginning their own Cloud Storage service called Google Drive triggered a storm of warnings from privacy advocates regarding the rights that Google was asserting for itself. The worry was that by simply storing the file on Google Cloud, authors would be turning over full intellectual property rights to Google. …
Permanent link to this article: http://betweenthenumbers.net/2012/04/cloud-storage-terms-of-service-compared/
Apr 19
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (an industry group) and PricewaterhouseCoopers released their quarterly survey regarding Internet advertising revenues. The report indicates that the U.S. recorded a record $31 billion in Internet ad revenues for 2011. This was up 22% from 2010’s $26 billion spent on Internet ads. Approximately half of the Internet ad revenues come from …
Permanent link to this article: http://betweenthenumbers.net/2012/04/internet-advertising-taking-over/
Apr 09
Google and many other high tech firms are famous for their April Fool’s announcements. It is kind of an unofficial competition as to who really has the most creative people, not just among tech firms but within Google itself. This year the Google April Fools announcement that is getting the most attention is Google Tap. …
Permanent link to this article: http://betweenthenumbers.net/2012/04/google-fools-itself-into-a-great-idea/
Apr 07
Widespread adoption of electric vehicles has suffered from a chicken-and-egg problem with infrastructure. Without a ready supply of places to recharge, potential buyers are left with worries about being stranded. On the other hand, without an existing supply of customers, interest in building charging stations was minimal. Enter a firm that you have likely never …
Permanent link to this article: http://betweenthenumbers.net/2012/04/california-finds-a-strange-way-to-jump-start-electric-vehicle-charging/
Apr 02
Currently the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is accepting applications for new top-level Domains. Top level domains are what goes ‘after the dot’ in an internet address. There are two-character country code domains like .us, .cn, .ca, the long time familiar ones like .com, .net, .org, and .gov and a few that …
Permanent link to this article: http://betweenthenumbers.net/2012/04/the-us-government-throws-a-cloud-over-the-new-tld-process/
Apr 01
There are few documents that are more confidential than one’s income tax return. Consequently, one should reasonably expect that the IRS’s computer record containing details of each individual’s tax return would be secure. In a 36-page March 16, report, the Government Accountability Office (GOA) found that the IRS’s computer systems and the data on them …
Permanent link to this article: http://betweenthenumbers.net/2012/04/gao-finds-irs-computer-system-security-is-lacking/
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Mar 22
Recently I have been re-reading Isaac Asimov’s Classic I Robot. What strikes me is that, at least so far, most of the successes in robotics haven’t been in making humanoid machines to do things the way people do things. Instead, robotics has focused on completely re-thinking the process and then making robots that can do things …
Permanent link to this article: http://betweenthenumbers.net/2012/03/amazon-invests-in-robotics/
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Mar 28
My New Favorite Job Interview Question
Commentary, Technology
by Daniel Nolte
March 28, 2012
A lot of comment, occasionally humorous, has been given to the job interview questions that companies use to gauge creativity, analysis, and other desirable qualities. Managers often read and adapt these as they look for the right qualities in new hires. I have a new favorite: What is your Facebook password? To me, this is …
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