[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] Yesterday, everyone was bombarded by the news that not one, not two, but three separate entities encountered technical problems that necessitated shut-downs: United Airlines was forced to ground flights, The Wall Street Journal’s web portal was shut down, and the New York Stock Exchange—the veritable backbone of American…
[column parallax_bg=”disabled” parallax_bg_inertia=”-0.2″ extend=”disabled” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_repeat=”” background_position=”” background_size=”auto” background_attachment=”” hide_bg_lowres=”false” background_video=”” extended_padding=”false” vertical_padding_top=”0″ vertical_padding_bottom=”0″ horizontal_padding=”0″ more_link=”” more_text=”” left_border=”transparent” class=”limit-wrapper” id=”” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” width=”1/1″ last=”true”] [column_1 width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] Ride-sharing service Uber announced it was leaving Broward County at the end of July, 2015. They cited the ‘onerous’ regulations put in…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] The #1 ranking consumer complaint at the Federal Trade Commission for 15 years in a row has been identity theft. And again, the state of Florida ranks first in complaints out of all 50 states— Florida has, in fact, more than 1/3 of all reported identity theft incidents…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] Apple Radio started this week. The new music streaming service comes from the folks who kick-started the digital music frenzy with the introduction of their iPod back in October of 2001. Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey” may have been prescient back then with its view…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] Some people enjoy a drink now and then. And it’s interesting to note that the pleasure of indulging usually happens with very little idea of the actual process and ingredients behind the creation of the preferred alcoholic beverage. For instance, did you know that beer, whiskey, and ‘moonshine,’…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”no-divider” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] South Florida— You likely are not currently pondering any commonality between mixed martial arts and the recent government security breach of federal worker records. But if you are someone concerned about the security and storage of important data–especially on ‘the cloud—‘ then you’ll almost certainly be interested in…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] Facebook. Twitter. YouTube. Netflix. LinkedIn. Pandora. WordPress. Amazon.com They all have something in common: they are all able to gather and assimilate a tremendous amount of information in seconds, from an immense number of sources, and turn it into revenue. Facebook and LinkedIn assemble data on their users…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] A definition of executive: Someone who has the power to put plans, actions, or laws into effect A person with senior managerial responsibility in a business organization Or, according to Forbes ASAP: Someone who wastes 150 hours per year—almost an entire month—searching for lost information. Let’s…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] The chance of an individual being audited by the IRS is at the lowest rate in a decade, with less than 1% of returns audited: about 1.2 million returns in 2014, a drop of nearly 330,000 from 2010. Reasons cited are cuts to funding for the IRS and…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] As Google races to become the first company ever to reach market capitalization of a trillion dollars, a question worth considering becomes: why, exactly is Google worth so much money? It could easily be argued that selling advertising is the reason. Certainly the purchase of YouTube was a terrific business decision, with millions of…