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Change is Real Change has always been with us. When change happens in the business world, companies can either adapt or die. Flatness Defined The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman was published in 2005 and rapidly became a...

There is nothing like a good problem to spark the synapses, is there? To open the mind to new possibilities, new ways of seeing things. Of course, one must always confront self doubt and fear. But that is a small...

Abhinaya Konduru is in her senior year at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she studies finance and mathematical computer science. One of her career goals is to become a venture capitalist. Abhinaya interviews entrepreneurs and other leaders as...

I rarely go to the bank nowadays. ~Taxi driver in Nairobi, Kenya speaking toa 60 Minutes reporter about M-Pesa M-Pesa is the mobile payment service that dominates Kenya. M-Pesa runs on mobile phones, and you can use it to pay for...

How do you achieve real time, bi-directional, event-based communications in your apps? The Socket.io library is tested and true. ActionCable, new with Ruby on Rails version 5, is a challenger. Which solution is better, and why? This presentation compares Socket.io...

Excel spreadsheets are ok for quick analysis, but when the rows are too many and the formulas are too complex, recalc time slows to a crawl. Plus, sharing a spreadsheet is cumbersome due to security and version control headaches. One...