David Sax remembers the exact day he knew he might be screwed: Tuesday, March 10th, 2020. His newest book, The Soul of an Entrepreneur, was scheduled to come out a little more than a month later, but the scope of the coronavirus pandemic had already started to come into shattering focus. “I spent the first week frozen, unable to move or do anything and generally freaking out,” Sax told Squarespace. “And then I talked to my agent who said, ‘The entrepreneurs and business owners you write about are bearing the brunt of all this. You have to talk about that.’” So Sax went out and talked about his book wherever he could, however he could, even if that often meant discussing his thesis from behind a laptop, looking into a webcam. READ MORE
Apple to close retail stores in 4 states amid coronavirus spikes
Apple (AAPL) is temporarily shuttering stores again in U.S. states where COVID-19 cases have been spiking in recent weeks. The company confirmed the move to Yahoo Finance via an emailed statement saying that the company is closing its retail stores beginning June 20 out of an abundance of caution. READ MORE
Inside the NBA’s plan to use smart technology and big data to keep players safe from coronavirus
U.S. Slumps to 10th Spot in World Competitiveness Rankings
The U.S. tumbled further in a ranking of most competitive world economies, dragged down by the weight of President Donald Trump’s trade wars. READ MORE
Wall Street's party is over. Coronavirus fears are back
The runaway train on Wall Street has been derailed by a force nearly as powerful as easy money: a healthy dose of reality. READ MORE
'Pandemic pricing' is here. Rents are dropping across the US
At the end of May, Ilana Freund landed a deal on an apartment in New York City where she will be attending graduate school. She and her roommate signed a lease on a two-bedroom apartment in the West Village for $4,995 a month. It was a significant discount: Similar apartments in the building were going for around $5,300 before the pandemic took hold, according to the listing agent. READ MORE
Working parents are hitting a wall. Employers don't want to lose them
Unsustainable. That sums up the fevered pace at which many working parents have been hustling since the pandemic started. READ MORE
Inequality in America was huge before the pandemic. The stock market is making it worse
The gap between the world's rich and poor is expected to grow due to the pandemic, and a stock market high on government and central bank cash bears much of the blame. READ MORE
AT&T plans to cut thousands of jobs, close stores, company tells union
AT&T Inc plans to cut more than 3,400 technician and clerical jobs across the country over the next few weeks, the wireless carrier told its main labor union, the Communications Workers of America, on Tuesday. READ MORE
Netflix CEO to donate $120M to historically black colleges
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, are donating $120 million toward student scholarships at historically black colleges and universities. READ MORE
North Carolina hospital turns to drones to aid Covid-19 response
Outside Charlotte, North Carolina, white drones that resemble tiny airplanes are being loaded with personal protective equipment and launched into the skies to help a local hospital respond to Covid-19. The drones, which have an 11-foot wingspan, fly over neighborhoods, a reservoir and an Interstate highway at speeds of 63 mph on their way to Huntersville Medical Center. READ MORE
6 performance management tactics that never grow old
It is not a secret that HR plays an important role in the success of any organization, as better organizational performance translates to more profit. It is for this very reason that employee managers have tried different ways to push the capabilities of their human resources. READ MORE
Performance management based on people not metrics
The technology sector has consistently been ranked as the No. 1 industry with the highest turnover, and it comes down to the one thing that sets digital advertising apart from traditional advertising – metrics. READ MORE
Aligning Performance Management with Business Strategy
A good performance management process is one of the more elusive aspects of employee engagement and development. Research shows that the vast majority of managers and HR leaders don’t believe in the current performance management processes their companies offer, but developing a new one is no small task. READ MORE
Performance Management In An Agile World
As a professional services technology company, over the last few months we have been helping companies, organizations and public services agencies quickly provide their employees with the systems and capabilities they need to be able to work remotely. READ MORE
Coronavirus forcing businesses to adapt and rethink how they make money
Many business owners are changing the way they make money as they attempt to recoup revenue lost to the coronavirus outbreak. READ MORE
NASA’s newest test pilots are veteran astronauts, friends
The two astronauts who will test drive SpaceX’s brand new rocketship are classmates and friends, veteran spacefliers married to veteran spacefliers, and fathers of young sons. READ MORE
Artificial intelligence can guess your personality from a SELFIE
Facial recognition technology can determine a person's personality by analysing an emotionless selfie, a study claims. READ MORE
How Elon Musk was inspired to found Tesla, SpaceX after being fired from PayPal
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is about to make history as SpaceX prepares to launch NASA astronauts into orbit next Wednesday aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft.
President Trump has confirmed to FOX he will be attending.
While this highlights one of Musk's many innovative successes, he also has a long list of failures, but they’re all just a part of his success. READ MORE
Covid-19 Will Accelerate the AI Health Care Revolution
On New Year’s Eve of last year, the artificial intelligence platform BlueDot picked up an anomaly. It registered a cluster of unusual pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China. BlueDot, based in Toronto, Canada, uses natural language processing and machine learning to track, locate, and report on infectious disease spread. It sends out its alerts to a variety of clients, including health care, government, business, and public health bodies. It had spotted what would come to be known as Covid-19, nine days before the World Health Organization released its statement alerting people to the emergence of a novel coronavirus. READ MORE