Tag: American
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Link: America’s bias against working moms comes down to one question: Do you value your female employees or not?
Based on a 2013 survey, but still, fucked up: “According to Pew, some 40% of Americans believe it is bad for society if women work, despite the fact that 40% of American households are supported by female breadwinners.” Original source: America’s bias against working moms comes down to one question: Do you value your female…
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Link: Apple Pay accepted at 1 out of 2 U.S. stores, says Apple VP Jennifer Bailey
“Apple Pay availability was limited to about 3 percent of stores in the U.S. when it launched in 2014, but is now accepted in 50 percent of stores.” Original source: Apple Pay accepted at 1 out of 2 U.S. stores, says Apple VP Jennifer Bailey
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Link: The Majority of Top Performing IPOs Were Never Unicorns | Jeff Richards | Pulse | LinkedIn
“Given the data we shared at the beginning of this post – 75% of the top 20 performing IPOs from the last four years went out at valuations below $1 billion – one would think we’d see this trend picking up steam. Recent sub-$1 billion IPOs by companies like SendGrid, Blackline and TradeDesk have all…
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Link: Pivotal: innovative partnership saves big on US Air Force fuel costs
“The tanker refuelling system software for the air force – which runs on Pivotal Cloud Foundry – was built for under $2 million in 90 days and is now being used in operational areas including Qatar. It is currently saving the US Air Force $1 million per day in fuel costs, with the software being…
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Link: Richard Florida predicts Amazon HQ2 location
‘At the top of the list, I would place New York, the greatest headquarters city in the world, and DC, the world’s power corridor. When I asked Scott Galloway, the author of the book “The Four,” where he thought Amazon would place its new headquarters, he simply said: New York, New York, and New York.…
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Link: Facebook grows a conscience, admits it corroded democracy
They want to be more responsible. Original source: Facebook grows a conscience, admits it corroded democracy
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Link: To detractors, he’s a buffoon; to dealmakers, he’s a boon
“By a more than two-to-one margin, respondents to the 451 Research Tech Corporate Development Outlook Survey said the Trump White House will help spur M&A in 2018. Specifically, 59% said the current administration will ‘stimulate’ dealmaking this year, compared with just 23% saying it will ‘inhibit’ dealmaking.” Original source: To detractors, he’s a buffoon; to…
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Link: Green light for IT spending in 2018
“fully 50% of the 872 respondents said their company is giving a ‘green light’ for IT spending. That was the highest reading since 2007, and 13 basis points higher than the average survey response for the month of November for the previous five years” Original source: Green light for IT spending in 2018
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Link: Fewer Americans rely on TV news; what type they watch varies by who they are – Pew Research Center
Older people watch a lot more TV news than younger people. Link to original
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Link: Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Win – and Neither Did His Campaign
“During that first month, Walsh’s disbelief and even fear about what was happening in the White House moved her to think about quitting. Every day after that became a countdown toward the moment she knew she wouldn’t be able to take it anymore. To Walsh, the proud political pro, the chaos, the rivalries, and the…
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Link: Your Uber Car Creates Congestion. That May Cost You More To Ride. – New York Times
“About 103,000 for-hire vehicles operate in the city, more than double the roughly 47,000 in 2013, according to the Taxi and Limousine Commission. Of those, 68,000 are affiliated with ride-hailing app companies, including 65,000 with Uber alone, though they may also provide rides for others. In contrast, yellow taxis are capped by city law at…
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Frequent flyer programs drive billions(?!) in revenue
Delta Air Lines Inc., the world’s second-largest carrier, said it expects that its American Express partnership will yield $4 billion in revenue per year by 2021, rising by more than $300 million annually until then. Those sums translate to a very high margin of profit, Delta executives have acknowledged, but they’ve decline to specify further.…
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White men to women and minorities in tech: We just DGAF
Less than 5% of white men surveyed said they considered a lack of diversity a top problem. Three-out-of-four respondents were unaware of any initiatives to make their companies or portfolios more diverse. And 40% of male respondents were sick of the media going on and on about it. Meanwhile, in political land: the more privileged…
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When regulations actually help innovation
“In the drone industry, it seems counterintuitive, but we actually want regulation. And not having regulations is putting a halt to the growth of this industry,” says West. As ever: don’t make blanket assumptions about complex systems, here: all the regulations put in place by the federal government. Link
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It’s Not the Economy, Stupid
Rational anaysis is hard to find in real life: But in Elkhart, people have jobs they didn’t have six years ago, and they’re working more hours. Their homes are worth more than they were before Obama took office, on average, and their paychecks are fatter than they used to be. Yet Obama is, and will…
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Link: H-E-B creates online store with nationwide delivery service
HEB is the mega grocery chain, operating in much of Texas. It’s a sort of “mini-globalism” for them to sell globally. A lot of the local, in store brands they have are the kinds of things people visiting home would stock up on when they went back north or abroad, so there’s probably a good…
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Our Guide to Central Texas Barbecue – Texas Monthly
Our Guide to Central Texas Barbecue – Texas Monthly
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The “purpose driven reader”
A number of trends in media have left most news sites catering to a new kind of reader. According to the stereotype, this reader doesn’t visit news home pages, relying on starting points like Facebook instead. This reader sees news as just another category of entertainment, an escape or time-killer, and believes “important news will…
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You want people to work as much as possible to push the product and company out of uncertain territory into profitability, right? Wrong. What you will do is push people to the edge of burnout and unhappiness. They’ll eventually leave your company. From Open (Unlimited) to Minimum Vacation Policy This is a management point I’ve…
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Better get a referral
Referrals account for between 30 and 50% of hires in the US. In a paper published earlier this year, researchers from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and MIT studied data from a financial services company, and found that while referrals only made up about 6% of total applications, they resulted in more than…
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