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Embed from Getty Images Paying Attention: The NYSE Suspended trading in 199 different ticker symbols this morning. The story..and list of symbols.. comes from CNBC. In a world which is increasingly built on big data and digital interaction/access to that data, the problems of a disconnect or outage can be not just severe but catastrophic. The …
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Embed from Getty Images Paying Attention: Every year, the Cannes Film Festival, held on the French Riviera, grabs lots of press for the parties, red-carpet fashion shows, and celebrities attending. But it’s what goes on in the background that is really the most important for the movie industry. Cannes is not only where new …
Embed from Getty Images Paying Attention: Every year, the Cannes Film Festival, held on the French Riviera, grabs lots of press for the parties, red-carpet fashion shows, and celebrities attending. But it’s what goes on in the background that is really the most important for the movie industry. Cannes is not only where new …
Paying Attention: The French Open is on and perhaps you’d like to try a little clay court tennis yourself. First, please note that Clay Court tennis is a very different type of tennis from hard court or grass. It requires more stamina, better and more consistent ground strokes, and the ability to work a point, not …
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Paying Attention: The French Open is on and perhaps you’d like to try a little clay court tennis yourself. First, please note that Clay Court tennis is a very different type of tennis from hard court or grass. It requires more stamina, better and more consistent ground strokes, and the ability to work a point, not …
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Paying Attention: Wired has a new post about the inevitability of the economic model for electronics: what once was expensive soon becomes cheap. In this case, it’s the 4K flat screen, specifically the 4K flatscreen from Vizio. Vizio has always been a company that provides a big bang for the buck. They’re not afraid of …
Paying Attention: Oliver Stone doesn’t do safe movies. Never has. Never will. From Platoon to JFK to Born on the Fourth of July, he has pushed and prodded truth and fiction into continuously compelling narratives. His latest is Snowden, a film about the most famous hacker in modern times. Agree or disagree, makes no difference. …
Paying Attention: Jeff Knox may be the least famous golfer to ever play in The Masters. Embed from Getty Images You would have to be one of the kings of golf minutiae to recognize his name: He is the tournament’s official “marker”, an extra non-competing amateur player who plays with one of the tournament’s competitors to …
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Paying Attention: The bet here is this: you’ve never heard of Jean-Marc Bosman. Embed from Getty Images Why should you? He was a not-big-time soccer player for a not-big-time Belgium soccer club. But he revolutionized the sport. It cost him his career, but he changed the economics of European Soccer by winning the right to …
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Paying Attention: The bet here is this: you’ve never heard of Jean-Marc Bosman. Embed from Getty Images Why should you? He was a not-big-time soccer player for a not-big-time Belgium soccer club. But he revolutionized the sport. It cost him his career, but he changed the economics of European Soccer by winning the right to …
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