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If one's man's trash is another man's treasure, then one industry's potential failure is another's opportunity.
Adam Lashinsky
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Innovation has its limits, of course, and Salesforce has proved adept at supplementing its growth with acquisitions, a tool long available to older rivals like Oracle and SAP.
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Americans fear losing control if they're forced to ride in autonomous vehicles. These same Americans fly in airplanes every day that largely are flown by computers, and impressively efficient ones at that.
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Before its immature ways caught up with it, Uber got bigger and went further than Webvan ever did. But it bleeds money, courts controversy, and makes enemies like no company Ive ever seen.
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Amazon does online application hosting. So does Alibaba.
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Innovation, like creativity, is an amorphous concept. It's the holy grail of business, but achieving it - even merely explaining it - is lightning-in-a-bottle difficult.
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Bernard Tyson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente, sees technology as an augmentation to current healing tools - but not a replacement for human kindness, an integral part of healthcare.
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As a new Googler, Porat spent some time learning the words that describe the Googley people who work in those buildings.
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Alphabet would be a holding company to house its wackier or noncore efforts - like its Verily life sciences, Waymo self-driving cars, and Loon Internet balloon projects - while Google's advertising-oriented business would stand apart and continue to drive the company's finances.
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Porat is among a handful of top people who work for both Alphabet and Google. As such, there's a regular cadence to her week.
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Sony's Walkman far predated the iPod. Nokia ruled smartphones before Apple.
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No matter your interpretation of Apple's success with its Watch, it has become a leader - and it wasn't first to market.
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