The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I’ve been invited to participate in The New Story Summit in Scotland, and they are paying all expenses, which matters since I have no salary, no pensions, and no savings. The event is closed now to further registration, but open to any who wish to take advantage of the live streaming portions. For myself, with …
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Wandering, Big Data is… Top 10 mergers and acquisition in the Big Data space 2014 LIST ONLY Oracle & BlueKai Salesforce & RelateIQ TIBCO & Jaspersoft Cloudera & Gazzang Hortonworks & XA Secure Teradata & Think Big Analytics Google & Rangespan IBM & Cloudant Microsoft & Capptain Twitter & Namo Media
It is beginning to look like GMO, principally an American economic activity, may not endure as structured. This is one example of why I say that. There is a developing consensus against it. Cargill Sues Syngenta Over Sale of GMO Seeds Unapproved in China JACOB BUNGE – The Wall Street Journal In a fight that …
Google Needs To Watch A Chinese Rival Asia appears to be the place to go for alternative search engines that are large enough to rival Google. Russia has Yandex and now China has created Baidu. Baidu, however, is now crossing oceans and is deployed in Brazil says ZDNet in “Chinese Search Engine Baidu Goes Live …
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The Cloud: Flecked with Scattered Twinkie-Like Information I read “Cloud Revenue Jumps, Led by Old Computing Titans.” If you have a hard copy of the “real” journalism Mt. Parnassus, you can find this story in the August 4, 2014 version delivered to Kentucky. Online, the story carries an August 3, 2014 date and, if you …
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What Most Search Vendors Cannot Pull Off I recently submitted an Information Today column that reported about Antidot’s tactical play to enter the US market. One of the fact checkers for the write up alerted me that most of the companies I identified were unknown to US readers. Test yourself. How many of these firms …
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Information Manipulation: Accountability Pipedream I read an article with what I think is the original title: “What does the Facebook Experiment Teach us? Growing Anxiety About Data Manipulation.” I noted that the title presented on Techmeme was “We Need to Hold All Companies Accountable, Not Just Facebook, for How They Manipulate People.” In my view, …
