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There’s a New ‘Hot-Button’ Issue on Wall Street
"Information wants to be free," the technology activist Stewart Brand once said. "Information also wants to be ...
M1 Finance Review: Robo-Advisor For The Engaged Investor
One of the newest robo-advisor platforms to hit markets, M1 Finance, offers a unique twist to the fintech landscape. Recently showcased ...
Bigstep Adds Spark Service to Bare-Metal Cloud
A Spark-based analytics engine released last week runs on a low-latency, software-defined bare metal fabric and can scale Spark clusters ...
Bigstep Launches Spark-as-a-Service for Real-Time Streaming Applications
Bigstep, the big data cloud provider, today launched a bare-metal Spark-as-a-Service offering. The Bigstep Real-Time Spark Service ...
Risks Related to Growing Your Practice
You can hardly blame kids for loving Halloween. All they have to do is dress up in a costume and people hand them candy—lots and lots of ...
Employees, Do the Homework on Job-Based Health Coverage
Employees with job-based health coverage are spending a greater share of their income on health insurance costs, even though those costs ...
InContext, Intel Partner on VR Tech for Grocers
Chicago-based InContext Solutions, which develops virtual reality (VR) software for retailers and manufacturers, has struck a partnership...
5 Ways to Use Virtual Reality in the Enterprise
Virtual reality (VR) is going increasingly mainstream. The NBA just announced it will broadcast weekly games with virtual reality ...
InContext Raises $15.2m for Retail and Manufacturing VR Products
Chicago startup InContext Solutions has raised $15.2 million from Intel Capital and others to create virtual reality solutions for ...
InContext Solutions Raises $15.2M to Bring Retail Experiences Into VR
Virtual reality offers businesses the ability to see consumer habits in digital environments before committing the resources to actually ...
Retailers Scramble for Holiday Workers in Tight Labor Market
Employers planning to hire hundreds of thousands of holiday-season workers this year are expanding their talent acquisition channels and ...
Be a Better Leader: Avoid the Power Trap
What shifts in us when we acquire power? Dacher Keltner, founding director of the Greater Good Science Center and a professor of ...
Jellyvision Hires Its 1st CTO, Bringing a GrubHub Veteran Back to Chicago
Anecdotally, you're starting to hear more and more about a Chicago tech "boomerang effect." In other words, tech workers who've left the ...
The 24-Hour News Cycle Is Horrific for Investors
Just a generation ago or so, the media diet of a typical investor boiled down to three staples: morning papers, evening TV news and some ...
Chicago VC Veteran To Thiel
Peter Thiel’s recent jab at the Chicago tech scene still has some people talking. In case you missed it, the PayPal co-founder suggested ...