Marketplace for Thursday, October 23, 2014
Oct 23, 2014

Marketplace for Thursday, October 23, 2014

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With a trend of dismal earnings for the likes of IBM, Coke and McDonald's, blue chip companies appear to have lost their sheen. We trace the evolution of the blue chip company since its beginnings, and ask what does it mean today – and who are the new generation of blue chip companies. Plus, we're going there: Email.  It's a giant time waster, expensive productivity suck, and all over pain in the...

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Blue chips: down, but not out

Oct 23, 2014
With news of dismal earnings, are blue chips losing their sheen?

Tackling email overload: Lost cause, or noble battle?

Oct 23, 2014
Google tries to reinvent email with its new invitation-only Inbox.

Rethinking vocational high school as a path to college

Oct 23, 2014
Welding meets AP calculus at Minuteman High School in Lexington, Massachusetts

The future of the screen is looking bright

Oct 23, 2014
Sam Weiner and Daniel Kibblesmith on a future with screens all around us.

Catfish business leveling out in rural Alabama

Oct 23, 2014
Catfish farmer Townsend Kyser on how the economy feels. Plus, a catfish recipe.

Amazon earnings: the experiment (and losses) continue

Oct 23, 2014
The everything store with everything but profits.

A game of (porcelain) thrones

Oct 23, 2014
Yes, they actually counted how many toilets exist in your city.

With a trend of dismal earnings for the likes of IBM, Coke and McDonald’s, blue chip companies appear to have lost their sheen. We trace the evolution of the blue chip company since its beginnings, and ask what does it mean today – and who are the new generation of blue chip companies. Plus, we’re going there: Email.  It’s a giant time waster, expensive productivity suck, and all over pain in the…

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Cirrus Bonobo
Go Bang SBTRKT