Bankruptcy Filings Down 13 Percent in June 2013
August 9, 2013

Bankruptcy filings for the 12-month period ending June 30, 2013, fell 13 percent when compared to bankruptcy filings for the 12-month period ending June 30, 2012, according to statistics released today by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. June 2013 bankruptcy filings totaled 1,137,978, compared to 1,311,602 bankruptcy cases filed in the 12-month period ending June 2012. This is the lowest total for bankruptcy filings in any 12-month period since the one ending Dec. 31, 2008. The following...

Masters of our Own Destiny: Marc Teerlink at TEDxFlanders
August 8, 2013

Marc Teerlink, consumer psychologist, a passionate speaker and visionary from IBM, the company that created Watson - the first non-human winner of Jeopardy! Marc will takes the audience on a roller coaster ride, through witty, yet down to earth, examples of the digitization of society and what we can expect of it in the coming three years.

List of Cognitive Biases
August 8, 2013

Many of these biases affect belief formation, business and economic decisions, and human behavior in general. They arise...

Jumping to Conclusions, Malcom Gladwell Edition
August 8, 2013

Back in 2009, when Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote Too Big To Fail, Moe Tkacik picked up on one particular anecdote: that Joe Gregory,...

Google’s Android Seizes Smartphone Market
August 8, 2013

Google Inc.'s GOOG +0.33% Android software continues to steamroll the competition in smartphones, posing bigger problems for companies like Apple Inc. AAPL -0.82%and BlackBerry Ltd. BB.T 0.00% Google's Android software continues to steamroll the competition in smartphones, posing bigger problems for companies like Apple and BlackBerry. George Stahl reports on MoneyBeat. New data Wednesday from research firm IDC found that Apple's share of the global market slid to 13.2%...

GUILTY: Malcolm Gladwell Caused Lehman To Fail
August 8, 2013

Andrew Ross Sorkin's book Too Big To Fail has a HUGE detail that explains Lehman's failure, and by extension the financial...

Congress Weighs Balance of IP Freedoms and Protections
August 8, 2013

Companies involved in open-source code, crowdsourcing, and fair use of intellectual property on Thursday delivered a strong message to U.S. lawmakers reviewing IP laws: Don't forget about our businesses. Leaders from crowdfunding website Indiegogo Inc., nonprofit software developer Beneficent Technology Inc., manufacturer SparkFun Electronics Inc., television monitoring company SnapStream Media Inc., and cloud-computing company Rackspace Inc. detailed their IP desires to members of the House Judiciary...

Here’s What Brick-and-Mortar Stores See When They Track You
August 7, 2013

RetailNext, Euclid, Brickstream, Nomi, WirelessWerx, Mexia Interactive, andShopperTrak are just a handful of services that provide brick-and-mortar stores with analytics akin to website traffic reports. By tracking movement within stores, they help retailers better understand how to optimize their layouts, staff their registers, attract returning customers, and more. Some extract turnstile-type traffic data from video feeds. Others, like Euclid, rely on devices’ unique mobile Wi-Fi addresses...

Federal Court Issues Sanctions for Failure to Preserve Text Messages
August 7, 2013

Earlier this year, a federal district court issued a decision sanctioning defendants in an antitrust suit for failure to preserve their text messages. The case serves as a reminder that parties should carefully preserve relevant information, including information that may be contained on handheld devices. In Christou v. Beatport, LLC, 2013 WL 248058 (D. Colo. Jan. 23, 2013), the plaintiff sought an adverse inference sanction because defendants failed to preserve text messages on a key witness’s...

Master the Business of Law With Metrics, MatterAnalyzer, and Matter Management
August 7, 2013

Headlines: Prepare to Compete in a Tough Legal Market with MatterAnalyzer Moneyball for Lawyers: Build an All-Star...