Entries by Hunter Smith

Hurricane Florence: Tips to Prepare Your Business

BY CHRIS BRUNAU Business Continuity Natural Disasters Hurricane Florence is expected to make landfall as a Category 4 storm. Florence is capable of catastrophic damage with maximum sustained winds of 130 miles per hour. The storm is expected to make landfall at the end of the week in the area of North and South Carolina. Datto is mobilizing […]

How A VC Managing Partner Identifies Truly Innovative Ideas.

Amy Gu helps startups figure out an answer to that elusive question: What problem is their product solving–and can consumers live without it? BY KATHARINE SCHWAB5 MINUTE READ Amy Gu is the managing partner at Hemi VC, a venture capital fund that invests in early-stage companies in artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, cybersecurity, and biotechnology. Gu is also […]

Everyone Has a Number

Written by Rene Boer on September 6, 2018 LEADERSHIP EMPLOYEES ACCOUNTABILITY Employees perform most of the activities that, if measured, are usually leading indicators of future outcomes. You can’t know how well your business is doing without understanding how well the people in your business are doing. When you spend more time focused on leading indicators you’ll spend less time (after […]

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Customer Intelligence Platforms Will Spark a CX Renaissance in 2018

Published on January 10, 2018 David Corrigan CEO of AllSight – Customer Intelligence Platform13 articles 2018 will be the year of the Customer Intelligence Platform.  Organizations ALWAYS talk about being more customer-centric; there’s nothing new in that.  But more and more are getting serious about that strategy, and backing it up with technology investments. They want to be […]

The advanced VR simulation expands to new medical institutions as Oculus & CHLA continue their push towards experiential education.

For the past year, medical students and staff at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) have been utilizing VR technology to simulate various high-stakes pediatric emergencies. These immersive training programs create high-stress environments that challenge users to make life-saving decisions under extreme pressure. The results have proven so successful that Oculus & CHLA will be launching […]

Verizon Stops Data Throttling Firefighters, Apologizes

GETTY IMAGES NOAH BERGER/AFP/GETTY IMAGES “We didn’t live up to our own promise.” By David Grossman Aug 24, 2018 Days after data throttling a fire department fighting the largest fire in California history, Verizon says it is taking steps to make sure the situation does not repeat itself. These steps will include introducing a new unlimited plan “with […]

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Imran Chaudhri discusses how we can regain control over our devices–and how Apple can do better.

[Source Images: Apple, VLPA/iStock BY KATHARINE SCHWAB7 MINUTE READ It’s been a decade since the British designer Imran Chaudhri first imagined a user interface that would introduce millions of people to the smartphone. Chaudhri joined Apple in 1995, soon rising to become the design director of the company’s human interfaces group–where he was one member of the six-person team […]

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What is an API, In English, Please.

Artwork by Phillip Blackowl. Spanish translation. Portuguese translation. Petr GazarovFollow Software developer https://github.com/petrgazarov Aug 13, 2016 Before I learned software development, API sounded like a kind of beer. Today I use the term so often that I have in fact recently tried to order an API at a bar. The bartender’s response was to throw a 404: resource […]