Is it ever a nice time to talk about bad people hacking our democracy? I don’t really know. That said, it was a real pleasure to take an interview one again with one of CTV’s most insightful reporters, Penny Daflos. This is a critical issue for democracies here and abroad. Here’s some of what I had to say in this report, ‘It’ll be something new’: Canadian election interference likely in unexpected places: We always are ready to fight the last…
The weather isn’t just a topic for chatting around the water cooler. Thanks to Big Data, it is becoming big business. That’s why IBM recently bought the Weather Channel for reported $2 billion. And it is also another manifestation of big data creating opportunities for companies to capitalize on. IBM has made Big Data and analytics the next mountain it wishes to climb They understand that a company of any size will need vital sets of information in order to…
Mathias Dopfner, the CEO of Axel Springer, raised the issue about the uneasy relationship between Google and publishing companies. Axel Springer, a German media powerhouse, publishes over 200 newspapers and magazines; and derives 62% of their profits from their digital business. As you can imagine, Axel Springer depends heavily on the traffic supplied by search engines, most notably Google. Mathias (quite rightly) points out that the search results and ads serving algorithms are not transparent; and anyone with a business…
