and several main characters all come from there. The second book is split between Roland's world and New York. Everything just seems to be tied to New York. It's implied that New York is where the Dark Tower intersects with our world, literally making it the center of...
The growth and venture funding opportunity for other contestants with innovative apps that ride on Zoom could be huge. "Zoom will be the next big platform for start-ups to build billion-dollar businesses," Scheinman said. "Of the 10 companies we chose as finalists, every single one ha...
This year, 2024, will be the one in which companies will begin to take environmental, social & governance (ESG) activities seriously, proving once and for all that ESG is here to stay. While it is true that this trend started as the result of the need to comply with regulations and ri...
The founder of two “moonshot” tech companies, Tesla Motors and SpaceX, is bringing electric vehicles to mass market and 26 humans to live on other planets. Lest this strike the amateur techie—not that readers of The Independent would ever count among them—as so much hot air, you can ...
A lot of companies will tell you that the best organizations are “flat” and what they mean is that they want to have the fewest number of managers possible because “managers are evil” or “managers create more work than they get done” or other such comments. You don’t see a lo...
appreciation of the demands of working “in the system” rather than the more relaxed environment of a university, as several of my students found when they didn’t realize that they needed to inform their supervisors ahead of time about taking leave from their internships to return to school...
The OPEC+ alliance of oil-exporting countries decided Wednesday to sharply cut production to support sagging oil prices, a move that could deal the struggling global economy another blow and raise politically sensitive pump prices for U.S. drivers just a