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Microsoft’s biggest gamble is finally making money
Microsoft’s search engine Bing is finally profitable. “Search revenue increased to more than $1 billion this quarter,” Amy Hood, Microsoft’s MSFT Chief Financial Officer said in an earnings call with...
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Here’s How Well Search Engines Predicted Super Tuesday
Increasingly, we are what we search. As primary and caucus results trickled in around the country on Tuesday night, Google and Microsoft Bing had already picked their own winners based on how people...
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Microsoft Thinks Your Web Searches Could Help Diagnose Cancer Early
Could your online searches help lead to an early cancer diagnosis? Microsoft msft thinks so. Researchers from the tech giant retraced the digital footsteps of millions of Bing search-engine users to...
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The clown show at VW
So you ask yourself, What in the world were those guys at Volkswagen allegedly thinking? I'm using the word "allegedly" here not about what they allegedly did but about their thinking, which was most...
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A Modest Proposal: All Companies Should Shut Down at Age 18
This is truly a great time to be in business. Almost 2036! So much has happened in the past 20 or so years. We all have cranial implants that make handheld electronics unnecessary. And none of us knows...
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Seven Strategies for Not Blowing Your Dough in a Stupid Market
Perhaps you're one of the smart or lucky people whose money works for them. Sadly, I am not. Maybe my money is just lazy or something. But I have to do it the other way around. I have to work for it....
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How to Be More Productive Even If It Kills You
Like many in our current predicament--so much work, so little time--I have felt my personal productivity flagging of late. Industrywide numbers bear out the sorry fact that, in this regard, I am part...
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Meet the Hyped-Up Business Leaders You Idolize Most
It is my pleasure to announce the latest winners of the National Association for Serious Studies' Annual Admiration Award for the Supreme Leaders of the Business Cosmos, recognizing icons of management...
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If We Teach Machines To Think, Will They Be as Stupid as People?
You know, I'm willing to swallow a lot of stuff: Jeff Bezos taking us into space. Elon Musk moving us around at the speed of sound in hermetically sealed tubes. But artificial intelligence? I'm not so...
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Why Wall Street Loves It When I Sell Stocks
I was in my office last week, -minding my own business, when CaroleAnne popped up in my doorway with a perturbed expression. "You have a visitor," she said. "Does he or she have an appointment?" I...
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Does the Truth Still Matter?
In these fast and increasingly furious times in which we live, with a news cycle turning like the exercise wheel of a hamster on speed, does Truth with a capital "T" still matter? Observers of the...
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What Happens When Millennials Rule the Workplace
Good news, team! After years of -laboring under the oppressive thumb of entitled boomers and sad, slow-moving slackers, we, the millennials in this organization, have assumed control. Don't worry....
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Can Edgar Allan Poe Fix My Stock Portfolio?
Once upon a day so hairy, when the Dow turned red and scary And the bulk of my investments fell into a pit of gore-- While I wondered, nearly weeping, suddenly there came a peeping As of something...
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Hot Jobs for 2020 and Beyond
The world around us is changing so quickly that only those who don't even try to understand it have any chance of dealing with it. Jobs that used to pay the bills will soon fade into the murk along...
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Brexit? Pshaw! It’s Time for a ‘Glexit’
I guess we all understand Brexit now. The way it looks from this vantage point, the stiff-upper-lip, dry-bottomed, ultra-crispy former representatives of the Empire upon which the sun never set (until...
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Why Crazy Works in the Office
People are mystified by the rise of the divisive candidate who has dominated the news of this election cycle. But we're not, are we? We're in business. We've seen his type before. He's that intense guy...
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The Downside of Saying ‘I’m Sorry’
What a great summer it was for people who love apologies. Every day was abuzz with outrage, all those righteous, angry people formed into the daily flash mob. It was rich, wasn't it? Ryan Lochte...
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How Business Has Changed Over Two Decades
This is the last column I'll be writing for this magazine. After 21 years and tens of thousands of words under the banner While You Were Out, I'll be the one who is out and about. Now, now, Virginia....
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Microsoft Is Losing This Key Tech Exec But Gaining a New Unit
Qi Lu, a top Microsoft executive and lieutenant to chief executive Satya Nadella, is leaving the software company, in a move first reported by Recode and confirmed to Fortune by Microsoft sources. The...
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Why Microsoft Is Putting These Chips at the Center of Its Cloud
Microsoft has already talked a bit about its new computing architecture that makes more extensive use of field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips as well as conventional microprocessors to power its...
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