To understand this...
FCC
Advances Plan that Threatens Net Neutrality
(Related) You should
read this.. (Very cool graphic, by the way)
5
Freedoms You'll Lose Without Net Neutrality
(Related) He doesn't
need to.
Antonin
Scalia Totally Gets Net Neutrality
Interesting stunt, but
would this make the algorithm liable for its bad recommendations?
Algorithm
appointed board director
A venture capital firm
has appointed a computer algorithm to its board of directors.
The program - called
Vital - will vote on whether to invest in a specific company or not.
The firm it will be
working for - Deep Knowledge Ventures - focuses on drugs for
age-related diseases.
It said that Vital
would make its recommendations by sifting through large amounts of
data.
In a global market, it
is important to say “We work in your language!” That is far
easier than saying, “You need to learn English.” Look next for
tools that will translate spoken words, not just written words –
much more difficult application.
Google
Buys Word Lens Translation App to Enhance Google Translate
Perspective. In todays
global market, if your start-up makes you a millionaire, you are a
failure? “Billion is the new Million?”
Pinterest
valued at $5 billion after latest funding round
Pinterest Inc. raised
$200 million in a funding round that gives the San Francisco
online-scrapbook startup a $5 billion valuation, up from $3.8 billion
seven months ago.
The money came from
existing investors, including SV Angel, Bessemer Venture Partners,
Fidelity
Investments, Andreessen
Horowitz, FirstMark Capital and Valiant Capital Partners. The
new round brings the total raised to $764 million, Pinterest said.
The funding for
Pinterest, which has yet to start generating significant sales, is
part of a spate of fundraisings at multibillion-dollar valuations.
Uber
Technologies Inc., the San Francisco car-service startup is
seeking to join the $10 billion-plus club.
… Room-sharing
service Airbnb
Inc. and online storage service Dropbox
Inc. were valued at $10 billion after recent fundraising, while
Palantir
Technologies Inc. sought at least a $9 billion value last year.
By contrast, the
median market capitalization for technology companies in
the Standard & Poor's 500 Index is about
$16 billion.
I took Economics years
and years ago, but one thing I do remember is that artificial
minimums or maximums are not a good idea. If you could solve income
inequality by legislation, why not go all the way and make the
minimum wage $500 per hour ($1,000,000 per year) – then everyone
would be rich and no one would have to work! Utopia!
Where
could you get $25 minimum wage?
… Labor unions have
been campaigning for months to win public backing for a minimum
hourly wage of 22 Swiss francs, or nearly $25.
The Swiss government
and business leaders have warned that the initiative would destroy
jobs, hurt lower skilled employees and make it harder for young
people and others to enter the workforce.
"The proposed
statutory minimum wage would be the highest in the world, by some
margin," the Swiss economics ministry said in a statement.
"Consequently, those who would suffer most from the initiative
are those it is supposed to benefit."
… Based on a World
Bank conversion rate, 22 francs per hour would be equivalent to
roughly $17.60 in the United States once the difference in cost of
living is taken into account. That would put Switzerland comfortably
at the top of the international minimum wage league.
Only Germany would come
close to paying similar rates. Europe's biggest economy will
introduce a national minimum wage next year for the first time, at
8.50 euros an hour. That's worth about $15 in the U.S.
I suspect my students
could learn something by reading this!
5
Ways You’re Using The Web Wrong: Avoid Frustration &
Embarrassment
… Here
at MakeUseOf, we’ve offered a number of etiquette guides for things
like BitTorrent,
using emails
and forums, and even Facebook
etiquette. In this general mini-guide, the focus will be more
about the issues and problems that Internet newcomers commonly face,
and how to avoid or deal with them.
Understanding
Advertising
Understanding
Fake Websites
Phishing
Emails
Downloading
Free Apps
Free
Software Crapware And Free Trials
Using
Social Networks
For
my I-Students... (I just list a few)
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