by Admin | Jun 2, 2016 | Companies, News, Technology
Music streaming giant Spotify has seen major traction from their “Discover Weekly” feature, which generates a personal playlist for each individual user based on their previous week’s listening habits. It’s basically a mix tape of old, new, and undiscovered tunes that...
by Admin | May 20, 2016 | Companies, News, Technology
Global financial firm UBS will join forces with SigFig, an automated investment firm, to create a robot advisor program that will cater to clients. The program will be implemented for UBS’s 7,000 advisors over the next year or so. The robo-advisor program is just one...
by Admin | May 20, 2016 | Companies, News, Technology, Women of Business
Could sexist data be skewing the research when it comes to women in the workforce? That’s the theory espoused by Melinda Gates during a recent presentation for the Women Deliver conference in Copenhagen. Because of the lack of data on things like intimate partner...
by Admin | May 19, 2016 | Companies, News, Technology
Emolument.com, a website for salary statistics and data, recently analyzed global salaries of more than 600 entry-level employees from the top tech companies in the world. The data was submitted by the employees–mostly from the United States and Europe–and...
by Admin | May 13, 2016 | Companies, News, Technology
Founded by Jihal Parthasarathi and Katie Kapler, CourseHorse connects students with real-world classes that have empty seats. Working primarily with schools in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles, these innovative marketers have experienced rapid, yet sustained, growth...
by Admin | Mar 7, 2016 | Companies, News, Technology
The Supreme Court ruled today to refuse to review an appeals court’s decision that Apple conspired with book publishers to raise the price of digital books. In April 2010, Apple entered an ebook market dominated by Amazon and the Kindle. Publishers were hoping Apple’s...
