Recently, private equity giant Blackstone Group announced the acquisition of Colony Capital for $5.9 billion, a deal that encompasses 60 million square feet of warehouse space across 465 facilities. Blackstone is reported to manage now over $250 billion worth of property worldwide, and the Colony purchase comes on the heels of previous warehouse acquisitions of Singapore’s GLP […]
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Is China An AI Security Concern?
Recently, the Interior Department ordered the grounding of its drone fleet that was made in China or contained Chinese parts. This comes on the heels of similar actions taken by the Department of Homeland Security in May and the United States Army in 2017. While political pundits credit the ban to the Trump administration’s policy initiatives […]
DEV Raises $11.5M to Be The Premiere Online Community for Software Developers Of Every Skill Level
There are about 40M software developers in the world, and many of these developers have used platforms such as Reddit to share ideas and collaborate. But DEV may be providing a superior alternative. DEV is the social network for software developers of all backgrounds and experience levels to connect, collaborate, and share ideas. DEV is […]
Facebook Leveraged Fake News To Grow User Engagement in Q3 ’19. Let The Rest Of The World Be Damned
I’ve been following Facebook since I called Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, a month after launch, and offered to buy the company (I was running Bolt at the time). In March, 2010, I published the first Wall Street style research report on Facebook on Tumblr, with a $100 billion five year price target (it was actively trading in the private […]
Reinventing The Wheel, Autonomously
Logistics in America is one of the fastest-growing private sectors of the economy, generating more than $1.6 trillion of spending (or close to 10% of GDP) in supply chain, transportation, and distribution investments.
Musk is Wrong, We’re Not Already Cyborgs
Neuralink proposes to transcend reality and make virtual experiences feel totally real. How will Elon Musk’s neuralink challenge subjectivity?
Audtra is Building the Marketplace and Social Network for Micro-Podcasts
Podcasts are expected to be s $1B industry by 2021 and while podcast consumption is growing, peoples’ attention spans are decreasing. Audtra leverages both of these factors to become the social marketplace for 1 second to 5-minute audio recordings. “Micro-podcasts” can be made by anyone, including brands. Audtra has built-in features to analyze each recording’s […]
Implementing Pro Active Cyber Policies for SmartCity Infrastructure
Every 39 seconds a cyber attack hits companies and government offices in the United States. Last week, after moderating a discussion with Chuck Brooks of General Dynamics on the vulnerabilities of ransomware, a non-profit that I support became the latest victim. This all too close event, that threatened millions of personal identities (including mine), is a painful […]
CTRL-labs Acquired by Facebook
New York Tech is not all about Saas and D2C startups. Deep science bringing in serious returns for early investors.
The Future Of Humans, Taxes and Work
Technology has become so ingrained into people’s lives that Maslow’s “Hierarchy of Needs” requires an update. The toxicity of politics and declining civility of the electorate is rooted in the addiction of 120 character news cycles and idolized selfie-promoted social networks.
How the Death of Data Entry Creates More Meaningful Work
In the 1970s, journalist Studs Terkel compiled Working, an oral history about American workers, many of whom reported feeling demoralized and depressed in tedious data entry jobs. Over the last few decades, not much has changed for those in data-entry jobs. In fact, these individuals are prone to a myriad of physical injuries and mental […]