Every day, we hear about companies deploying applications with the dreadful acronym AI to provide the best customer service or something. They talk up their solution, the most advanced solution, with the best AI that money can buy. And of course all that AI that is their big differentiator is a highly guarded secret. It’s also a source of vulnerabilities.

Did you know that for less than $4 per month you can learn how you move, sleep and ... sound? That's right. How you sound to others.

If you’ve never had to deal with ransomware (lucky you!) and are not quite sure what it is, ransomware is a kind of software. You either get tricked to install it on your machine, or a hacker will find a vulnerability and install it for you. The typical outcome is that every bit of information on your computer gets encrypted. Then, the message with instructions on how to buy Bitcoin and where to send it, appears.

The honeymoon is over and the big guys are moving in.

It is 1989 and Sir Timothy Berners-Lee builds what we today call the web. The combination of language (HTML), a communication protocol (HTTP) and the means to see the information (The browser). The objective was to give better access to thousands of documents created at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

Another week, another announcement about vaccination. However, this time it is not from the CDC or a national health official. It is from Uber. Now you can book a vaccination appointment through its app.

Some might ask, “isn’t Uber a ride-hailing company?” Actually, it’s much more than that. The company is very much aligning its business with its vision statement - “We ignite opportunity by setting the world in motion.” In doing so, it is maturing along the way towards a profitable future. It’s growing up while losing dead weight of underperforming or non-core business operations, while boosting its immune system against competition.

Look at how Amazon is rolling out new technologies and how it is commercializing them. Who knew that when Amazon built its own data center for selling books online, it would turn this spare computing capacity into the Amazon Cloud (AWS)? And that it would build a multi-billion dollar business out of it? If this innovation is good for Amazon, it must be good for everyone else and Amazon will provide access to it to everyone - right? Sharing (for profit) is caring.

Today, you can extend this call to action to the 'healthy developers'. Why? Microsoft just added to its arsenal Nuance. It’s the speech recognition company which, among other things, powers Siri, the voice assistant found in Apple products.

What's so significant about this transaction? (I mean, aside from the $19 billion purchase price.)

There’s business strategy… and then, there’s execution. Netflix is showing what a company can do when it does both well and continues to adapt. That’s how a company can win, even against the most powerful competition around.

Another day, another buzzword is rolling through the streets of the Internet, creating more sets of flashy headlines.

Which buzzword? The NFT (Non-fungible token) is the latest craze.

Big tech’s problems are like a prize pig at a country fair: too big (and maybe too ugly) to cover up. So, once again, the top CEOs in Silicon Valley are testifying in front of Congress.