The company says machine learning and natural language processing can make financial research dramatically more efficient.
The company says machine learning and natural language processing can make financial research dramatically more efficient.
For the casual internet user, a quick Google search is often all it takes to find plenty of information on any particular topic.
That hiring manager or business partner may not be ready to act, but you’ll want them to remember you when they are.
That hiring manager or business partner may not be ready to act, but you’ll want them to remember you when they are.
Entrepreneurs and job seekers both live or die by the relationships they build—with new clients, contacts, recruits, investors, and partners. But as any successful relationship builder can tell you, timing isn’t always on your side: Your dream client may not have the budget for your services right now, or maybe a strong candidate for a senior position just had a baby and isn’t ready for a move to a new company yet.
Mentoring arrangements can become a waste of time for both parties if you don’t take a few key steps.
Mentoring arrangements can become a waste of time for both parties if you don’t take a few key steps.
You took the first step and asked someone to be your mentor. Congrats! Whether you chose this seasoned pro to help you hone specific skills or to give you long-term career advice, it’s up to you to drive the relationship—so you get the most out of the time you’re both putting in.
The Silicon Valley icon’s startup began shipping its newest offering this summer. I took it to the ultimate judge: My barber.
The Silicon Valley icon’s startup began shipping its newest offering this summer. I took it to the ultimate judge: My barber.
I have a complicated relationship with electric trimmers.
Data from 10,000 Pebble users doesn’t lie: Here are hacks to make your workplace culture happier and more productive.
Data from 10,000 Pebble users doesn’t lie: Here are hacks to make your workplace culture happier and more productive.
In the 1960s and ’70s, the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi gave pagers to study subjects, ranging from motorcycle gang members to sheepherders. When the pagers buzzed, the participants’ job was to record their happiness levels. These studies ushered in the modern era of happiness research (and gave birth to an idea you’ve probably heard about—the times when productive hours float by like minutes in “flow“).
If you don’t spend money on a garage, there’s lots of extra cash to add bike-friendly amenities to a new building.
If you don’t spend money on a garage, there’s lots of extra cash to add bike-friendly amenities to a new building.
A new apartment building in Sweden doesn’t have any parking spaces. Instead, the developers invested the money that would have gone to a parking garage into creating an ideal place to live for people who don’t want to own a car.
This entrepreneur learned (the hard way) what it takes to tame an unruly board and build one that actually works.
This entrepreneur learned (the hard way) what it takes to tame an unruly board and build one that actually works.
There was the board member who tried to vote me out. There were the ones who insisted “this will never work.” There was even the one who joked (I think) about having me hit by a bus in order to get rid of me.
If Leonardo da Vinci were alive today, he’d be a Burner. And this is what it took to bring his Vitruvian Man concept to life at Burning Man.
If Leonardo da Vinci were alive today, he’d be a Burner. And this is what it took to bring his Vitruvian Man concept to life at Burning Man.
Deep inside a dark tractor trailer in the middle of North America’s most remote piece of desert earlier this month, a doomed Man lay strapped down, waiting to be taken outside, mounted and spun around for all to see, and eventually be burned in front of hordes of screaming, ecstatic people.
With its Charge 2 band’s cardio and breathing offerings, Fitbit is putting its years-in-the-making PurePulse sensor to work in new ways.
With its Charge 2 band’s cardio and breathing offerings, Fitbit is putting its years-in-the-making PurePulse sensor to work in new ways.
Behind a wall of privacy dividers in a common space at Fitbit’s San Francisco headquarters, a young man in a surfing T-shirt and shorts—and an oxygen mask—is running on a treadmill. Its speed keeps increasing, compelling him to pick up his own pace.
Volunteering for a disaster-relief effort taught one executive valuable lessons in crisis management.
Volunteering for a disaster-relief effort taught one executive valuable lessons in crisis management.
Sloane Menkes is no stranger to crises.
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