App Economy is ‘Job Leader’ Into the Future
Last spring Technet asked me to examine the size of the ‘App Economy’, focusing on the number of jobs being created. The official job statistics from the BLS... Read »
Three Key Products That Will Drive Apple (AAPL) in 2012
The recent report on corporate profits from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) blew away analysts and investors with how strongly the company’s products are selling to the... Read »
Gain in Tech Help-Wanted Ads: Good News for Labor Market
After months of stagnation, labor demand appears to be perking up again, according to the latest data from The Conference Board Help Wanted Online report. Led by... Read »
Quarterly Earnings Shocker from a High-tech Leader
We just had a buffet of quarterly earnings releases from some of the largest technology firms: Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG); Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT); Intel... Read »
The TV Business Keeps Getting Stronger!
Back in my broadcast.com days we had a saying that “bits are bits”. That once content becomes digital, it is naturally going to become available on any and all... Read »
You Don’t Live in the World You Were Born Into
I thought this was appropriate to start the new year. We all have the tendency to believe that we are living in a very advanced technological period. We get all... Read »
Libertarians in Space
After quoting from a speech where a Republican presidential candidate praises the space program, Mark Palko writes: I [Palko] don’t know what the reaction of the... Read »
Tech Stock Wars: I Would Buy an iPad Over a Playbook
Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, the co-CEOs of embattled Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ:RIMM) probably had massive headaches last week after watching their... Read »
What Makes the U.S. Special
Technology from innovative companies in Silicon Valley—think Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), Amazon.com (AMZN) and Facebook—has permeated our workplace and home.... Read »
Nonlinear Thinking: Robot Run Warehouses
Here’s an interesting video clip that reinforces our view that almost all new innovation and technology is labor saving/destroying and that U.S. unemployment is... Read »






