Total Addressable Market (TAM) is a standard bit of hype included in venture capital presentations.  It is usually a big number to indicate to funders that the company is working in a large sector of the economy and even capturing a small percentage of market share will sustain and grow the business.  Everyone knows it […]

Posted on October 5th, 2017 by admin
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The Las Vegas massacre proved again that news distribution requires human editors.  Both Google’s and Facebook’s algorithms picked up and sent out phony stories from suspect sources that news people would have caught. Eventually real news came out but in the interim, there was wild speculation and biased opinions that served as filler for anxious readers […]

Posted on October 4th, 2017 by admin
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Toys R Us, which put itself into bankruptcy, has ambitious plans for a turnaround and it just might work.  The firm is going interactive with the public and engaging children in its aisles and in playrooms it will set up.  The interactive thrust is Augmented Reality in which through a smart phone app, kids and […]

Posted on October 2nd, 2017 by admin
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