Category Archives: Misc

The 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report, released in April by Verizon, estimated that there were 2,122 confirmed data breaches in 2014, generating $400 million in losses. This week we learned that one attack that was not included in this count … Continue reading →

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avt7GEpHYtI?rel=0] Steve Jobs in 2003: “People have told us over and over and over again–they don’t want to rent their music.”

The Wall Street Journal: In March, Daniel Benitez, a cinema executive in Miami, paid $2,500 for a necktie. It wasn’t just any strip of designer neckwear. Imprinted on the blue silk were six lines of computer code that once brought … Continue reading →

In the first quarter of 2015, 166 Israeli high-tech companies raised $994 million, a 48 percent increase year-over-year, according to research firm IVC. “We are on a positive slope right now,” Gadi Tirosh told me recently, “which is fine, as … Continue reading →

eMarketer: The chief digital officer (CDO) role emerged alongside the digital transformation, and companies are rapidly making room for the position. In a report released in May 2015, The CDO Club estimated that the number of CDOs worldwide would double … Continue reading →

You probably heard the news about the CFO of Morgan Stanley becoming the new Google CFO and the on-going migration of Wall Street bankers to Silicon Valley (here and here). But did you know that this is just a surface … Continue reading →

Wefi, the Mobile Data Analytics company, analyzed data collected from over 70,000 devices driven over 3.5 million miles on six major interstates.

You probably heard the news about the CFO of Morgan Stanley becoming the new Google CFO and the on-going migration of Wall Street bankers to Silicon Valley (here and here). But did you know that this is just a surface … Continue reading →

“The surveillance society snuck up on us,” says Bruce Schneier in Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Capture Your Data and Control Your World. It’s a thought-provoking, absorbing, and comprehensive guide to our new big data world. Most important, … Continue reading →

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