Found 382 results
By Jon D. Markman On September 10, 201801:55 PM Eastern
Listen closely.
It’s the sounds you don’t hear that count.
And all this quiet tells us that the electric car revolution is happening.
Balding and mustachioed, Dieter Zetsche does not look...
By Tony Sagami On June 1, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Politicians throw the word “trillion” around so much these days that it is easy to forget how truly massive a trillion really is.
A trillion is one thousand billions, or 1,000,000,000,000.
...
By Jon D. Markman On March 21, 201801:55 PM Eastern
It happened. A self-driving car has killed a pedestrian. Skeptics are calling for development to end.
According to reporting from ABC News, Elaine Herzberg was struck by an Uber autonomous SUV...
By Gavin Magor On February 1, 201807:50 AM Eastern
I’ll bet that, like almost everyone I know, you complain like heck about the cost of your home insurance -- usually once a year when you get the annual statement. But you probably just pay it...
By Jon D. Markman On November 10, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Skeptics say fully self-driving cars are decades away. They’re wrong.
This week The USA Today reported that Waymo, the Alphabet (GOOGL) subsidiary working on autonomous vehicles, showed off a...
By Jon D. Markman On August 28, 201702:00 PM Eastern
In an era dominated by energy-sipping, self-driving wannabes, there is something oddly satisfying about a Ferrari.
Last week, the company Enzo Ferrari carved out of Alfa Romeo in 1939,...
By Jon D. Markman On August 9, 201702:00 PM Eastern
A tiny Chicago startup is having a huge impact on insurance.
Lemonade Insurance Company wanted to disrupt the way insurance companies do business. So it replaced brokers and paperwork with...
By Mike Larson On May 22, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Last fall, we had the “Trump Bump.” Last week, we got the “Trump Dump.”
The Dow Industrials plunged more than 372 points on Wednesday, while the S&P 500 tanked more than 43. That was the worst,...
By Jon D. Markman On September 20, 201607:30 AM Eastern
The third industrial revolution is happening right now. Silicon is the new steel, and data is the new oil. Now the companies that build Big Data ecosystems are about to reap the rewards.
That is...
By Jon D. Markman On June 7, 201607:30 AM Eastern
So here we are in June. Can you believe the year is almost half over? Some 156 days have already clicked past, and there are 209 more to go. If there was something you really wanted to accomplish...