by JAM | May 23, 2017 | LISTA
By now, many marketers have heard of the tremendous opportunities the United States. Hispanic consumer represents in terms of numbers and purchasing power. However, in the age of hyper-segmentation and targeting, Millennials and bi-cultural Hispanics have risen to the...
by JAM | May 23, 2017 | LISTA
Spare us your “killer apps.” We don’t need any more. What we do need is an app that kills all the underutilized or just plain useless apps that are taking up space on our phones. I’m good. No mas. In fact, I’m up to here in unused apps...
by JAM | May 22, 2017 | LISTA
Last month, attendees at The Near Future in Washington, D.C. were treated to talks from world-renowned technology, innovation, and business experts who presented on how technologies of the future will one day change how we live, learn, work, and play. They brought on...
by JAM | May 10, 2017 | LISTA
Government technology practitioners from various cities and countries gathered last week to discuss the future of “smart cities” and the “Internet of Things” at the Smart Cities NYC conference that took place at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. One panel was moderated by Jeff...
by JAM | Apr 23, 2017 | LISTA
President Trump signed an executive order this week that directs federal agencies to implement a “Buy American, Hire American” strategy and to reform the much maligned H-1B visa. No doubt, lobbyists and congressional staffers are working overtime to develop an even...
by JAM | Apr 17, 2017 | LISTA
Cybercriminals are brilliant, relentless and ruthless. So how can organizations hope to fight them? One way is to hire people just like them. “I’ve always enjoyed thinking like a criminal,” said Casey Ellis, CEO of Bugcrowd, a company that crowd sources ethical,...
by JAM | Mar 29, 2017 | LISTA
TechLatino Honoring 15 Latina Leaders in Tech, Government and Business at their13th Annual Emerging Tech Leadership Summit April 25 – 26, 2017. To mark the organization’s 20th anniversary, TechLatino: National Association of Latinos in Information Sciences and...
by JAM | Mar 2, 2017 | LISTA
And the company is making management changes to reflect its new focus on online shoppers. If Wal-Mart stands any chance of going head to head with Amazon, it’ll have to use its physical store locations to its advantage. To that end, the company is streamlining...
by JAM | Feb 27, 2017 | LISTA
New Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said Monday that the commission likely won’t take a look at the proposed $85.4-billion merger between AT&T (NYSE: T) and Time Warner, Inc. (NYSE: TWX). Speaking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Pai...
by JAM | Feb 21, 2017 | LISTA
Last March, Microsoft unveiled Tay.ai, a Twitter bot that promised to usher in a new era of human-to-artificial-intelligence conversation. Within hours, hackers turned Tay into a venom-spewing racist, and the project was quickly shuttered with a public apology. In the...
