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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. I ended up traveling on a few projects with my friend Basel, an analyst who started the same day that I did. I would say it happened a bit by accident. Absolutely.

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Your Biggest Cybersecurity Weakness Is Your Phone

Harvard Business

Executives are wrestling with managing a proliferation of devices, protecting data, securing networks, and training employees to take security seriously. Employee data was cited by 37%, followed by wireless access of networks at 34% and bring-your-own-device efforts at 29%.).

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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. To some, a streetcar conjures not a revivifying force, but the folly of the People Mover, an elevated train built in 1987 that loops 2.9 miles around downtown.

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How to Handle Work When Your Child Is Sick

Harvard Business

It could be paying for delivery from the 24-hour pharmacy; taking an Uber instead of the train to work so you’re not late coming straight from the pediatrician’s; or occasionally getting professional in-home backup care from a local service.

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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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Enhancing Customer Insights with Public Location Data

Harvard Business

Beacons are battery-powered wireless sensors installed in retail stores or event venues that detect nearby consumers who have opted in to alerts through Bluetooth or other technologies and that relay information to consumers’ mobile devices. Integrating such social reports with geolocation delivers two added advantages.

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