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PDQ’s Don Ross: Why Speed Kills Equities Markets And How Auctions Can Save Them
The future of stock markets is becoming less about speed and more about trading securities in different environments, particularly ...
The Touchy-Feely Side of Spark
Spark’s rise to prominence surprised some in the big-data community, even catching some technical professionals unsuspecting. After all, ...
40 Under 40: Kristi Zuhlke
From the time she was a high school student in Wisconsin, Kristi Zuhlke knew she wanted to be an entrepreneur. But after graduating from ...
InContext CTO Tracey Wiedmeyer on Virtual Reality, Series E & Talent
After raising money from their family over Christmas, Tracey Wiedmeyer the CTO and cofounder of InContext Solutions, built their company...
Bigstep Offers a Full Big-Data Stack on Optimized Bare-Metal Infrastructure
With a vendor-agnostic, purpose-built infrastructure and a suite of integrated big-data applications running on top, the company is ...
Who’s Who in the Rise of Small Business Insurance Tech Startups
Since the start of 2015, the fragmented but growing small- and medium-sized business insurance market has seen a plethora of tech ...
Black Friday Blues? Maybe VR Shopping Is the Answer
Heading to your Black Friday shopping destination? You’re probably prepared for a crowded, frantic and stressful time. Wouldn’t skipping ...
At Risk: Many Companies Don’t Have Enough Disaster Insurance
A fire at the gun shop next door never reached Kathy Laurienti's sausage and specialty food store, but the water and smoke damage was ...
On Deals and Dealmakers
On-demand startups—the ones bringing us grocery, housecleaning, parking, lawn mowing, and personal butlers with a tap on our smartphones—...
Detroit Selected as One of the Best Places to Live for Tech Entrepreneurs
If you're thinking about starting a tech company, consider Detroit for your home base. The Motor City was selected as one of the "Best ...
The ‘Google for Market Research’ Raises $2.7M Series A
KnowledgeHound is a platform that helps companies find insights from market research data. Though Fortune 500 companies spend upwards ...
7 Lessons Learned by Rising from the Ashes of Failure
As industries transform, some companies — such as Blockbuster, Borders Books and Tower Records burn to death. Others rise like a Phoenix ...
7 Ways to Protect Your eCommerce Site from Hackers
Setting up an ecommerce site is easy these days. Keeping your site safe from hacking, fraud and copycats, not so much. And as small ...
Virtual Reality, a Game Changer for Brick-and-Mortar Stores
Tracey Wiedmeyer, the Chief Technology Officer from Incontext Solutions, talked to Scott Kitun about the scalable cloud-based virtual ...
How One Exec Reinvented Market Research for the Era of Social Media
The style of market research pioneered in the 1950s by Chicagoan Leo Shapiro—gathering consumers in a conference room to be questioned ...