Tag: xerox
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The Right Way to Spend Your Innovation Budget
Innovation is famously difficult — many projects end up losing money, frustrating employees, and going nowhere. And yet corporations and governments spend billions of dollars annually pursuing innovation. This huge spending would generate more value for businesses and societies if the innovation success rate were just a little higher. Is there a way to increase the…
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Xerox rejeita proposta de US$ 6,1 bi da Fujifilm e vai à leilão
A era turbulenta da ex-dona do mercado de impressão não termina. A Xerox desistiu de acordo de US$ 6,1 bilhões de dólares com a Fujifilm, em uma vitória para os acionistas Carl Icahn e Darwin Deason. A vitória dos investidores bilionários deixou a companhia japonesa ainda mais atrás sobre qualquer nova negociação com a Xerox,…
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Even in Trump era, green energy innovation is sparking, not sputtering
BREAKING BARRIERS Congress has kept in place federal funds that support the key period when inventors have to build prototypes to show potential investors. Some corporations and states also help maintain momentum on clean energy. APRIL 27, 2018 WASHINGTON—Eric Wachsman thinks he might have an answer to one of the great challenges that’s hindering the…
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The Google uproar shows that Silicon Valley isn’t a center of innovation, but behind the times
Michael Hiltzik The talk of Silicon Valley just now is a document critical of Google’s workplace diversity programs, written by a now-fired software engineer named James Damore and virally circulated online. Entitled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” the memo accuses Google of political bias aimed at “shaming into silence” employees wishing to challenge “ideas … too…