There are forty-four container ships waiting to dock and be unloaded outside California’s southern ports. This is an increase of the pre-pandemic record of forty ships that once lined up outside these ports for unloading. In total, Californian ports account for approximately one-third of American imports and are an important point of trade between the…
South Korea – Ending Google and Apple Dominance
South Korea vs Big Tech A South Korean Parliamentary Committee will vote today to approve legislation put forth that would ban Google and Apple from charging software developers commissions for in-app purchases. Typically, app developers hope to earn revenue from the apps they create when users choose to upgrade to the app’s paid version that…
Continuing Business Trends
Business analysts anticipate that the pandemic will continue to disrupt normal business operations for the foreseeable future. This is understandable. Just as quickly as mask mandates were lifted, many were reinstated. Clearly, the Delta variant is continuing to raise alarm bells with health care providers. These factors and others such as technology-based e-commerce sales and…
How Google Remains the Top Search Engine
The Google and Apple Arrangement How can Google remain the top search engine year after year? Easy, it pays Apple big bucks to ensure it remains the default search engine on Mac, iPad, and the iPhone. This week, analysts from Bernstein have estimated that payments from Google to Apple may be close to $15 billion…
South Korea vs Big Tech
A South Korean Parliamentary Committee voted this week to put forth recommendations to ban Google and Apple from charging software developers’ commissions for in-app purchases. Typically, app developers hope to earn revenue from the apps they create when users choose to upgrade to the app’s paid version that carries more features. Apple and Google’s Commission…
Vote on Campus Cancelled
Elections Canada will not be offering the Vote on Campus program in September 2021. The reasons Elections Canada cited for not hosting Vote on Campus in 2021? According to Elections Canada, the pandemic created too many uncertainties regarding students being able to access its programs and having to work under a minority government. Both factors…
TikTok and Shopify
What is TikTok? TikTok is a short-form mobile video platform that is usually edited on a smartphone. Although TikTok videos can be edited on a computer the ability to edit videos on a smartphone gives the user the ability to upload video content quickly. Mission of TikTok Tik Tok’s mission is to inspire creativity and…
MUM Versus BERT
MUM (Multitask United Model) Google’s MUM (Multitask United Model) is a language model built on aBERT. BERT, created in 2019, is a powerful Natural Language Processing(NLP) model for search engines. When first to market, BERT unto itself wasa search engine breakthrough. But, according to Google, MUM is 1000x morepowerful than BERT which is a game-changer…
The Capability Maturity Model
Managing in a Post-Pandemic Economy As the world struggles to understand what the post-pandemic economy will look like, process and systems management aficionados are already a few steps ahead of the rest of us. What is Process and Systems Management? Enthusiasts of process and systems management spend their time analyzing how to make organizations more…