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An Ex-Consultant’s Jump into the Start Up World

Management Consulted

He co-founded MobileSuites, an app that puts travel concierge services and hotel information at your fingertips, and which you can (and should) find and sign-up for here. Other times, we would be doing due diligence on a data center, and that would be a much more slimmed down team, probably one or two analysts and a manager.

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NSA Hacks Into SIM Card Makers Giving US and UK Criminals Access to Millions of Cell Phones

MishTalk

Among its clients are AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint and some 450 wireless network providers around the world. Possessing the keys also sidesteps the need to get a warrant or a wiretap, while leaving no trace on the wireless provider’s network that the communications were intercepted. and many of the largest European — companies.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants: Email Listserv Privileges Gone Awry

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

The best example EVER of what happens when someone accidently sends an email intended for one office to an entire worldwide management consulting firm (of 20,000+ employees). > Senior Consultant, > Emerging Markets Practice. > > > XXXXXXXXXXX || Senior Manager, > > > From: XXXXXXXXXXXXX. > THE EMAIL.

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Robot Truck Convoy Tests in Nevada; Driverless Trucks Before Cars, and Before the End of the Decade

MishTalk

The technology, developed by Peloton Tech, uses radar and a wireless link so that the following trucks travel at the same speed, braking simultaneously for safety, and doing so on an automated system that doesn''t have the delays of human reaction time. This was the average for just two trucks (the lead saved 4.5

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Amazon Unveils New Drone Prototype for 30-Minute Deliveries; Google Seeks Drone Deliveries by 2017

MishTalk

The drone can travel up to 15 miles at high speed. There’s a lot that can be done in this market space,” Vos said. Mike "Mish" Shedlock Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. I side with Vos. Technology marches on.

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How to Handle Work When Your Child Is Sick

Harvard Business

While there’s no silver bullet, the good news is that with a few specific strategies for managing your colleagues, care arrangement, and yes, yourself, you can mitigate the situation, and make it through these roughest patches of working parenthood in one physical, emotional, and professional piece.

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Return of the Buggy Whip; Streetcar Named Imprudent

MishTalk

At the peak of streetcar travel in the mid-1920s, some 800 streetcars covering 200 miles of track carried 97 million passenger trips a year. Questions dogged the Loop Trolley’s early management, and a pending federal lawsuit seeks to stop the project. For example, USA Today reports Atlanta, other cities see a streetcar renaissance.