Recently, Silicon Valley has been a buzz about Googlelosing key employeesto Twitter, Zynga, and Facebook and themassive retention bonusesthat Google has given to keep key executives. Now, in the Valley, employee turnover every few years is commonplace so I wonder, is this type of turnover any different from the typical Silicon Valley career path? I believe it is and to understand why, let’s first consider a blueprint High-Tech career path....
Do you remember the good old days? When people had real values, the streets were safe at night, and America was great? Me neither. But I do recall the joyous phone designs of the past. In the old days, my dear, before every handset was just an enormous screen, phones came in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Most of them were hideous and stupid, but at least they had charm....
According to a study, the Chinese are shifting to a new way of consuming media, spending less time on the television and more on the Internet. CTR China’s Media Audience Research & Report reveals that the television is still the top choice for media consumption with 72.8%, while computer and Internet is trailing close with 62.8%. What’s interesting is the huge shift that happened between 2009 and 2010, where time spent watching TV has decreased by 42....
The Way of the Future, a church founded by a former Google and Uber engineer, is now a thing of the past. It’s been a few months since the world’s first AI-focused church shuttered its digital doors, and it doesn’t look like its founder has any interest in a revival. But it’s a pretty safe bet we’ll be seeing more robo-centric religious groups in the future. Perhaps, however, they won’t be about worshipping the machines themselves....
The classic game of chess has found a new home: Twitch Chess explodes on Twitch.tv Twitch.tv is a live-video streaming website that was started in 2011 as a platform for users to watch other people play video games. In recent years, Twitch has grown to become the cultural hub of the gaming community. It now hosts tens of thousands of creators who broadcast live to a global audience of around17.5 million viewers a day....
