Cognizant lays off 200 senior executives gadgetsnow.com/jobs/cognizant…? utm_source=x.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=GNWeb via Gadgets Now. TCS pays double for candidates with digital transformation skills.

‘Innovation & Creativity At Broad With Wayne Hutchison’ on #SoundCloud #np soundcloud.com/poetsandquants…. The power of experiential learning.

With Nine Short Words, Google Just Made a Stunning Announcement That Will Change Everything You Think About Google medium.com/inc./with-nine…

Excited about the release of my new book today, The #AI Advantage: How to Put the #ArtificialIntelligence Revolution to Work. Tom Davenport The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social. amazon.com/Advantage-Arti… #cognitive #machinelearning #deeplearning #Analytics

M.I.T. Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1 Billion nyti.ms/2AcLqi9. To develop bi-lingual students who also understand the ethics of automation.

California Becomes 1st State To Require Women On Corporate Boards by 2019https://n.pr/2Rd2Rp3 The minimum is two female directors if the company has five directors on its board, or three women if it has seven directors by the close of 2021. Time to break the 5% ceiling!

Research: Investors Punish Entrepreneurs for Stereotypically Feminine Behaviors hbr.org/2018/10/resear…. Interesting research from Prof. Lakshmi Balachandra

First Dunkin’ dropped “Donuts” from its name. Now the chain is making the biggest change to its drinks menu in 15 years in a challenge to Starbucks wsj.com/articles/dunki… via The Wall Street Journal. They should try and do more with data.

IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion cnb.cx/2OXUdxm. Opensource has gone mainstream with MSFT acquiring Github and now this.

Countries across the world are exploring EU’s idea of levying digital taxes on tech giants like Facebook and Google wsj.com/articles/count… via The Wall Street Journal. Would lose all the free services. Separate transactional data from other data & impose taxes on the other data. Thanks Marty.

$2 Billion Man: Paul English (Kayak, Lola, GetHuman) On Entrepreneurship, Philanthropy And More via @forbes. forbes.com/sites/micahsol… Team first, customer second, and profit third.

Come on you Tigers, Fight! Fight! Fight! Alabama vs LSU on CBS at 8 pm.

Amazon in late-stage talks with cities including Crystal City, Va., Dallas and New York City for HQ2 location wsj.com/articles/amazo… via The Wall Street Journal. Every company can learn from this experience.

The SaaS Report’s Top Women Leaders in SaaS of 2018 | Business Wire businesswire.com/news/home/2018…. Congratulations to @PriyaIyer for making the list!

China’s state-run press agency has created an ‘AI anchor’ to read the news theverge.com/2018/11/8/1807… via @Verge. Emotions and expressions are part of the real anchor visual experience.

’Are we killing enough shows?’ A hot debate rages between two Netflix factions wsj.com/articles/at-ne… via The Wall Street Journal. Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley or algorithms vs. domain knowledge. Need both.

How Capital One created its chatbot, Eno, and made it work with customers’ natural language wsj.com/articles/capit… via The Wall Street Journal. With 9,000 IT professions, sounds more like an IT company than a bank!

Inside Uber's secret restaurant empire bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Pursuits. Now virtual restaurants is a thing and it was spurred by Uber.

Amazon kept cities in the dark. It demanded silence. It made spot visits with little notice. This is how the hunt for its second HQ went down. wsj.com/articles/how-a… via The Wall Street Journal. Amazon is the ONLY winner in this contest.

New York Is a Genuine Tech Hub (and That Was Before Amazon). nytimes.com/2018/11/14/tec…. Need to deliver on the complementarities.