FAVORITE HEADLINE OF THE WEEK:
“Two new CEOs don’t add up to meaningful change at Oracle”
FAVORITE NEWS OF THE WEEK:
What the future holds for AWS and commodity cloud
THIS WEEK’S NOTABLE QUOTES:
“If the run up on Alibaba’s stock continues, and Yahoo’s stock sags, the value of [Yahoo’s] core business could dwindle to nothing at all. — Jason McCormick, contributor, Silicon Valley Business Journal
I think it’s a fair statement to say most people would rather be Mark Zuckerberg than Will Smith. I think that’s a fair statement, and that’s pretty fascinating. — Timothy Karunaratne, whose agency pairs emerging companies with influential investors
I know this sounds strange, but in the next evolution of Convergence Analytics, the “Analytics Oracle,” could end up cutting many data scientists and convergence analysts out of the picture. This directly contradicts the McKinsey group’s prediction of a shortage of data scientists for the foreseeable future. That’s not so far-fetched, considering analytics applications have become progressively more intelligent and aligned to basic business tasks that are connected to specific industries. — Marshall Sponder, analytics consultant and WebMetricsGuru blogger
By introducing a watch that is basically a computer on your wrist, Apple missed an opportunity not just to reorient the wearables market to something much better than “tragically pathetic,” but also to define the design and usability principles for the Internet of Things. — Gil Press, writer on technology, entrepreneurs and innovation