Posted by: Contributing columnist, CLARION LEDGER FEATURE, BUSINESS, September 30, 2015: Last week I introduced the concept of The Long Tail, which originated as a 2004 article in Wired magazine by Chris Anderson. This concept essentially outlined the phenomena that was transforming the distribution of content via the Internet through cheap…
Posted by: Contributing Columnistin Columns, Economic Development, MBJ FEATURE, NEWS, OPINION, TechnologySeptember 24, 2015 In my last column I shared the nationally acclaimed story about how the Mississippi Baptist Medical Center (MBMC) in Jackson kept its lights on in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina by relying on their combined heat and power system. Another…
Posted by: Contributing columnist, CLARION LEDGER FEATURE, BUSINESS, September 23, 2015: “It is estimated that a week’s worth of The New York Times has more information than a person was likely to come across in his or her lifetime in the 18th century.” That’s a line from the video “Shift Happens”…
Two 2015 University of Mississippi graduates will introduce their business venture, a Web-based services that helps connect job-seekers with employers that match their personality profile, Sept. 20-22 at a pitch competition during this year’s SEC Symposium in Atlanta. View article.
Posted by: Alan Turner in Economic Development, MBJ FEATURE, NEWS September 17, 2015 After graduating from Princeton and getting an MBA from New York University, Rich Sun, the new chairman for Innovate Mississippi, built a long and successful career as an investment banker and venture capital expert. Among other stops along the way, he worked…
Posted by: Contributing Columnist in Columns, MBJ FEATURE, NEWS, OPINION, Technology September 10, 2015 A s we mark the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and reflect on the past decade we hear many stories of courage, strength and of the unity we showed as a state. One of the numbers which stood out in my mind was the…
Posted by: Contributing columnist, CLARION LEDGER FEATURE, BUSINESS, September 16, 2015: I wrote a few weeks ago about crowd sourcing and all the ways people and companies can go to the Internet to get various services done. By far the fastest growing type of crowd sourcing is crowd funding — the…
Posted by: Contributing columnist, CLARION LEDGER FEATURE, BUSINESS, September 8, 2015: In last week’s article, we examined Moore’s Law and the tremendous vision that Gordon Moore had in making such a bold prediction — that computing power would double and prices would drop by half every two years. Ray Kurzweil, in…
Posted by: Becky Gillette in Economic Development, MBJ FEATURE, NEWS, Technology September 3, 2015 By BECKY GILLETTE Innovate Mississippi has been doing a bit of innovative matchmaking by successfully pairing a promising startup company, NG1, in Olive Branch with a potentially disruptive technology called the NG1 TechFlo exhaust system for diesel engines, with a Mississippi manufacturer,…
Posted by: Contributing columnist, CLARION LEDGER FEATURE, BUSINESS, September 2, 2015: The most fundamental and oldest of the technology predictions is Moore’s Law, which is universally credited as the driving force behind the digital revolution over the past 30-40 years. Moore’s Law, which is now 50 years old, is still going…