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Industry Analysis: Utilities Dig In Against Distributed Rooftop Solar
So What Happened To The Dream? This is another of my Industry Analysis discussions for UBC students. This time it is perhaps an industry issue and clash of competing values as big as the smart mobile...
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More on Utility Industry Myopia: Utilities are Dinosaurs Waiting to Die
Industry Analysis Citibank: Utilities are dinosaurs waiting to die As if to underscore my previous posts on the extraordinary rapidity of disruptive change for the utility industry, This is turning out...
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Surprising WSJ Investigative Indictment of Alleged “Clean Coal.”
In a somewhat surprising article this weekend, Wall Street Journal investigative reporters Rebecca Smith and Cameron McWhirter have reported on the sorry saga of efforts to create allegedly “clean...
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Google’s Schmidt blasts NSA over fiber-optic snooping: Damage Could Be...
David Mayes: U.S. National Security Agency global surveillance of virtually all Internet traffic has been devastating for Google’s international business. At the exact time when Google has launched a...
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Wireless networks aren’t ready for the smartphone revolution
David Mayes:Uh oh! Expect to see the cost of wireless data skyrocket In addition to Ericsson’s forecast of inadequate capacity, the base cost of data backhaul from cellular is astronomical. A fix is...
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NSA Spying Is Freezing Cisco, Google And Other Companies Out of Trillion...
The good news today is Cisco‘s new focus on the Internet of Things, which I have been reporting as the new Mega Global Market War. But frankly, the damage to U.S. companies like Cisco Systems by the...
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How Successful People Make Themselves Luckier
David Mayes:This article has resonated with me, and my own personal epiphany. It came to me as a university student, sitting on the grass in the university common area. I suddenly realized that I was...
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Je Suis Charlie Hebdo
Je suis Charlie Hebdo Filed under: Big Ideas, France and My French Culture, Global Culture, Globalization, Higher Education, Managemnent, Personal Stuff, Racism Tagged: Al Queda attack in Paris,...
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Preparing For The Long Term Consequences In Texas And Western Canada
UPDATE: January 20, 2015. Target announced this week that it will be closing all 133 stores in Canada, including the Vernon and Kelowna stores. eliminating at least a couple of hundred local $10/hr...
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UBC Faculty Joins Other Prestigious Universities Calling for Fossil Fuel...
The University of British Columbia is following the lead of faculty and students at Harvard University, the University of California, Stanford University and many other universities across North...
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Why Are We Losing Our Global Influence?
As we are now on the verge of U.S. Congressional ‘fast track” approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement, and simultaneously a severe challenge to the integrity of the European Union as...
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Risk of Global Financial Contagion Is Growing
Global Financial Contagion, is a well-understood phenomenon among economists, but less so among the general public. Financial contagion refers to “the spread of market disturbances — mostly on the...
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Canada Glaringly Absent From World’s 10 Most Innovative Countries
The following infographic provides an excellent overview of the World’s Most Innovative Countries and the weighted criteria used to rank the top 10. Glaringly, Canada is completely absent from this...
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Bayer’s Proposed $56 Billion Monsanto Acquisition No Done Deal
Global Agribusiness On A Consolidation Spree Once Again, Consumers Are The Likely Losers The global agribusiness industry has recently seen a feeding frenzy of merger and acquisition activity. The...
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Risk of Global Financial Contagion Is Growing
Wall Street is currently basking in a vigorous “Trump rally,” with the Dow rising more than 1000 points since the election. The rally is driven by analysts who are salivating over the future prospect...
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Trump’s radical new foreign policy portends much worse to come
Trump Blows Off the Rest of the World Trump Climate Change Speech More About Political Power Than Climate Change Donald Trump and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte Fareed Zakaria has pointed out...
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Surprising WSJ Investigative Indictment of Alleged "Clean Coal."
In a somewhat surprising article this weekend, Wall Street Journal investigative reporters Rebecca Smith and Cameron McWhirter have reported on the sorry saga of efforts to create allegedly “clean...
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Google's Schmidt blasts NSA over fiber-optic snooping: Damage Could Be...
U.S. National Security Agency global surveillance of virtually all Internet traffic has been devastating for Google’s international business. At the exact time when Google has launched a strategic...
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Wireless networks aren't ready for the smartphone revolution
Uh oh! Expect to see the cost of wireless data skyrocket In addition to Ericsson’s forecast of inadequate capacity, the base cost of data backhaul from cellular is astronomical. A fix is needed or we...
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NSA Spying Is Freezing Cisco, Google And Other Companies Out of Trillion...
The good news today is Cisco‘s new focus on the Internet of Things, which I have been reporting as the new Mega Global Market War. But frankly, the damage to U.S. companies like Cisco Systems by the...
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