Two Governmental Regulators Highlight Cybersecurity Issues In 2015 Priorities

It is no surprise that numerous government regulators have listed cybersecurity amongst their priorities for 2015. This past week, two of these regulators – the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of...By: King & Spalding

Negotiating between friends

Adapted from “Dealing with Friends,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter.
We all know people who have “alligator arms.” When the restaurant check comes, they can’t manage to reach their wallets, or they quibble that they had the small tomato juice, and you had the large.
With our close friends, of course, the opposite tends to occur,

Are You Hiring For Sales EQ?

Hiring top sales talent is no easy task.  More than one sales manager has been frustrated because he discovered he hired a terrific interviewer---not a terrific salesperson.   There are several reasons for misfires on talent acquisition. 

Jennifer Lawrence and Jennifer Aniston: Asking for More in Business Negotiation

“We’re very much a sexist society,” actress Jennifer Aniston said in a recent interview with the New York Times, addressing not just the constant questions she faces about marriage and children, but about recent revelations of pay discrimination in Hollywood.
“Women are still not paid as much as men,” Aniston continued. “I’ve been up against that

Microsoft reveals its Internet Explorer successor will support extensions

Microsoft is planning to support extensions in the successor to its Internet Explorer browser. Currently codenamed Spartan, the new browser will be included as part of Windows 10 across PCs, phones, and tablets. Spartan’s extension support isn’t clear, but Microsoft’s browser development team confirmed the feature on Twitter by noting that "we're working on a plan for extensions for a future update to Project Spartan."

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Microsoft's stream processing engine boosts Bing, Azure services

A streaming analytics engine developed by Microsoft Research is giving advertisers on the company’s Bing Web search service more timely analysis on how their ad campaigns are faring, according to the company.The streaming analytics engine, called Trill, can process data at two to four orders of magnitude faster than today’s typical streaming engines, Microsoft said.

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