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Who Received the Most U.S. Patents Last Year [List of Top 15]

According to IFI Claims, IBM was assigned a record 6,809 patentsin the United States last year, marking the 21st straight year that IBM has topped the unofficial U.S. patent ranking.

 

via Statista 

 

Google and Apple, often considered the most innovative companies in the world, were ranked 11th and 13th, respectively, both breaking into the Top 20 for the first time.

 

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Here Are Some Links to Start Your Week

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• $292 Million Down The Drain: White House Fires Main Obamacare IT Contractor. (ZeroHedge)
• Consumer Electronic Show 2014 ‘Best Of’ Awards Lists Roundup. A list of lists. (TIME)
• Awesome: A New York Times bot is second-guessing NFL coaches on Twitter. (GigaOM)
• 2013's Most Striking Fine Art Photography. (HuffingtonPost)
• The 40 Most Viral YouTube Videos of 2013. (Mashable)

 

Trading Links:

• Confessions of an Institutional Investor. (Big Picture)
• Hugh Hendry Throws In the Bearish Towel: His Full Must-Read Letter. (Zerohedge)
• Rasmussen Investor Index Reaches Six-Year High. (RasmussenReports)
• Here Is a List of Market Predictions for 2014. (StockTwits)
• The Probability Problem. "Unlikely" happens with surprising frequency. (PragCap)

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The Shopping Decision Tree - from MIT Tech Review

Here are some stats about the retail market this year.

 

via MIT Technology Review.

Here Are Some Links to Start Your Week

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• Elon Musk's 15 Business Lessons. (Incomediary)
• People Window-Shop on Their iPhones, But Actually Buy Things on Their iPads. (Qz)
• 10 Websites That Will Help You Do Your Holiday Shopping. (Lifehack)
• It's Better to Be Imperfect Than Sorry. (Harvard Business Review)
• Talk About Turning the Other Cheek: Kissing an Opponent Draws Foul In WNBA Game [VIDEO]. (BusinessInsider)

 

Trading Links:

• The Richest World Leaders Are Even Richer Than You Thought. (HuffingtonPost)
• QE-infinity Is Not Sustainable: The Elephant’s Gonna Have to Leave the Room. (AllAboutAlpha)
• Will Next Time Be Different? A Report from the 30th Cato Monetary Conference. (Economist)
• You Spent $1.2 Billion Shopping Online on Black Friday. (AllThingsD)
• Cyber Monday Brings In Record $2.29B Online Sales. More than 18% of which was purchased via a mobile device (TheNextWeb)

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Holiday travel made better for the NSA now that the FAA allows travelers to use electronics during takeoff and landing.

  

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• Best Business Leaders 2013. (BusinessInsider)
• Software Patent Reform Just Died In The House, Thanks to IBM and Microsoft. (WP)
• Why Is Turkey Cheaper When Demand Is Higher? - NYTimes. (NYTimes)
• Cyber Monday 2013: Best US Deals and Sales. (Pocket-Lint)
• Temperament is More Important than IQ. (FarnamStreetBlog)

 

Trading Links:

• Apple is Sitting on 10% of All US Corporate Cash. (Quartz)
• Thanksgiving Digest: Mobile 43% Of All Traffic, Over 25% Of All Online Sales. (TechCrunch)
• Credit Card Companies Use Free Shipping as Weapon in E-Commerce Battle. (AllThingsD)
• Putting a Speed Limit on the Stock Market. (NYTimes)
• The Future of Computer Based Trading.   (Magic-Maths-Money)

Finally, a way to use your Desktop like an iPad

Have you seen kids poking and swiping at restaurant menus or magazines ... it is because they expect them to work like an iPad.

Well now you can access your desktop computer on your iPad, like an iPad, even when you are using a native Windows (or Mac) application.  This is cooler than it sounds.

Parallels Access ‘applifies’ your Windows and Mac applications, letting you remotely access and experience them as if they were made for iPad.  Tap, swipe, pinch and scroll any Mac or PC software application – even if they were not optimized for the iPad.

This is a very useful app that helps you get more done on-the-go.

Here is a video showing how it works.

 

 

My experience with it has been very positive.  Terrific on the road ... but I've even used it from the bedroom to finish up a little work that would have distracted me otherwise.

Add a comment below to enter a drawing for a free one-year subscription to Parallels Access.

 

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Apple released their new high-end iPad this week ... PC-makers weeped.

Apple has effectively taken the air out of the tires of the personal computer market with the iPad.

Here is a jaw-dropper of a chart.

 

via Horace Dediu at Asymco.

Talk about Creative Destruction ...

 

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Where Microsoft Makes Its Money

Microsoft released some interesting stuff this week.

The update to Windows 8 is here.

 

 

They released an app that lets you control your desktop from your iOS or Android device.

Also, here is a chart that shows where Microsoft makes its money.  For someone that doesn't pay that close attention to micro moves coming out of Redmond, the chart is somewhat surprising.

On one hand, notice that Microsoft's Windows franchise (which was once dominant) is now stagnant. On the other hand, it's easy to see that there is much more to Microsoft than just Windows.

 

 

As you can see, the Office business, and the Server & Tools business are both bigger than Windows and growing at a healthy rate.

 

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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Funny cartoon by Nate Beeler.  Error: The Government has stopped responding.

  

Too bad it's not just a cartoon.

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• 59% Think U.S. More Exceptional Than Other Nations. (RasmussenReports)
• We are #1: 60% of Porn Websites Are Hosted in the United States. (Statista)
• Trouble Using iOS 7? Here Are 15 Tricks To Make The Transition Easier. (Forbes)
• London "Fatberg": 17-ton ball of fat found in London's sewer. (Slate)
• Economist: A McDonald's Hamburger Is the Cheapest, Most Nutritious Food in Human History. At least when starvation, rather than obesity, is your problem. (Neatorama)

 

Trading Links:

• Apple Beats Coca-Cola to Emerge as Most Valuable Global Brand. (The Industry Standard)
• U.S. Third Quarter Earnings Warning Ratio Is Second Worst Since 2001. (Reuters)
• Why Stock Markets May Be Lagging Indicators. (Forbes)
• Time to Graduate to Futures? (TheStreet)
• White House Releases Animated Explanation of ObamaCare. (WSJ)

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Speaking of dangerous Red Lines ...

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• Siri Gets Sassy With Swipes At Google Glass. (AppAdvice)
• The NSA Machine: Too big for anyone to understand. (Yahoo News)
• Dolphins Name Themselves. They also answer to those chosen ‘names’ (ScienceNews)
• Viktor Frankl on the Human Search for Meaning. (BrainPickings)
• Not Science Fiction: A Brain In A Box To Let People Live On After Death. Would you want to live in a robotic body? (FastCo)

 

Trading Links:

• We Don't Need a Brilliant Fed Chairman. What is important for this job? (Slate)
• Only 43% of Americans Pay Federal Income Taxes. (CNN/Money)
• Asset Allocation Strategies Compared. (MebaneFaber)
• Apple Fingers Payment Revolution. (Forbes)
• 2020 Future Value Chain Trends - Building Strategies for the New Decade. (Husdal)