Image copyrightBloomberg The BBC’s weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Howie Liu, the founder and chief executive of the fast-growing spreadsheet start-up AirTable. Silicon Valley boss Howa…
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Month: November 2019
‘I’ve given up’: Apple founder abandons hope in autonomous cars
For as long as the automobile has existed, society has dreamt of self-driving and flying forms of car. While the latter has remained a fable (save for the high volume of ‘start up’ firms with concepts that inexplicably never make it to production), the forme…
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Glenn’s Tech Insights For November 4, 2019
(Glenns Tech Insights used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can get more visibility. It covers interesting new hardware and software developments that are generally relevant for SQL Server). It…
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More airports consider going off the grid as power outages ground flights
Aerial view of the Pittsburgh International Airport Should airports go off the grid? Pittsburgh International Airport and others think so. Remember that 11-hour power outage at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in December 2017 that canceled …
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NewsWatch: Seeing America again through new eyes
In 2011, at 50, I took early retirement from my job as an air-traffic controller, left Texas and began traveling the world. See full story. How to dig yourself out of debt There are four basic ways to get out of debt, big or small. Here they are, along with…
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