Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
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2019-02-22

Michelle Meyer & Mark Zandi - Next U.S. Recession, in 2021? (video)

What Will Cause The Next Recession - Michelle Meyer On Elevated Risks

Bank of America's Head of U.S. Economics Michelle Meyer predicts a slower global economy in 2019 compared to last year, especially China, which is likely to have some impact on the United States. But despite the risks being higher, the economic data shows an imminent recession is not in the cards. She also explains why wages have improved, "The labor market is tight," she says. And it's not just for high-skilled workers, but for lower income jobs as well.

What Will Cause The Next Recession - Mark Zandi Says Student Loan Debt

CNBC video above published Jan 14, 2019: Chief economist of Moody's Analytics Mark Zandi says the $1.5 trillion of outstanding student loan debt has created a 'crisis' for young Americans. It's part of the reason millennials are waiting longer to start families, buy houses, and launch businesses. It might also lead to the end of the US economy's 'virtuous' cycle in 2020. To solve the problem, he suggests shifting focus from providing student loans to increasing the supply of education options – including trade schools, online learning, and community colleges. Editor's noteMark Zandi, chief economist for Moody’s Analytics, hasn’t contributed to any Republican “for any federal office since 2008” and was an “Obama adviser and Clinton donor.”



Editor's note: post originally published under title What Will Cause the Next Recession? Michelle Meyer & Mark Zandi (video). 

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2019-01-28

Codam Is A New Way To Train Tech Professionals (video)

Codam: a new way to train much-needed tech professionals

No teachers. No fees, and no qualifications needed. Codam is an unorthodox coding college designed to address educational inequality, and a shortage of tech professionals. The FT’s Harriet Agnew goes to Amsterdam to meet Codam’s founder and funder, one of the brains behind TomTom, Corinne Vigreux, and discover a new way of learning. Financial Times (ft.com) video above published Jan 15, 2019.

Domain: codam.nl


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2018-12-18

Reimagining Education with Ted Dintersmith and Abby Falik (video)

Reimagining Education: Ted Dintersmith and Abby Falik

Goldman Sachs video above published Nov 13, 2018: In this episode of Talks at GS, filmed at Goldman Sachs’ Builders + Innovators Summit, author Ted Dintersmith and Global Citizen Year Founder and CEO Abby Falik discuss ways to innovate the future of education for the next generation of teachers and students. Domains: teddintersmith.com and globalcitizenyear.org.



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2018-10-23

Harvard Business School's HBX Online Learning Digital Platform (video)

Where Will HBX Take You?

Harvard HBX participants talk about how HBX propelled them forward in their life and careers. Learn more at  Online learning reimagined by Harvard Business School--hbx.hbs.edu. Harvard HBX video above published Sep 18, 2017.

See also: Harvard Business School’s HBX Is Fundamentally Transforming Online Learning--businessbecause.comThe digital platform makes Harvard more accessible and can improve students' job prospects.

Domain: hbx.hbs.edu



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2018-10-12

Google IT Curriculum via Coursera Online + College Credit (video)

Edgar Barragan: IT Support Specialist

Google video above published Jan 16, 2018: Edgar Barragan achieved his dream of working in tech after participating in the program that inspired the new Google IT Support Professional Certificate.
Google Curriculum, College Credit: "Tech giant gets hands-on with its new online IT certificate, as a growing number of community colleges and Northeastern University create credit pathways with the curriculum"--insidehighered.com Sep 26, 2018.
The Google IT Support Professional Certificate: "The IT Support Professional Certificate, developed by Google and hosted on Coursera.org, can help you become ready for an entry-level job in IT support in about eight months. No experience is necessary."--grow.google/programs/it-support/


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2017-12-06

Brexit: Luring Tech Talent to the UK vs EU (video)

How Brexit Is Impacting Europe's Tech VC Landscape

Bloomberg Technology video above published Dec 4, 2017: Tom Wehmeier, Atomico (domain: atomico.com) partner and head of research, discusses the funding climate for European startups with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on "Bloomberg Technology."

source: Atomico.com
Facebook's new London offices

Financial Times (ft.com) video above published Dec 4, 2017: Facebook has ramped up plans for its new London offices by pledging to hire 800 more “high tech” employees than expected.

London will be Facebook's largest engineering hub outside the United States. UK has the 2 best universities in the world, and three of the top ten:

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2017-09-07

McGraw-Hill Education CEO: AI In The Classroom Is Here (video)

McGraw-Hill CEO: AI In The Classroom Is Here

Video above published Aug 23, 2017: David Levin, CEO of McGraw-Hill Education (domain: mheducation.com), discusses how artificial intelligence is changing the way students learn as traditional media companies shift into technology.


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2017-05-06

Tech Review | Trump Effect: Infosys to Hire 10,000 in U.S. | TR2017-05-06

Tech Review (TR 2017-05-06)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech news:

Features • 1) Trump Effect: Infosys to Hire 10,000 in U.S., 2) Q1 2017 Earnings Season, 3) Broadband Internet & Satellites, 4) Chrome OS killing Microsoft & Apple in Education, 5) Net Neutrality, 6) Can Amazon and Twitter Kill Off TV, 7) ICYMI.

1) Infosys to Hire 10,000 Workers Amid Visa Crackdown

Video above published May 2, 2017: Techonomy CEO David Kirkpatrick and Bloomberg's Cory Johnson discuss Infosys Ltd.'s plans to hire 10,000 Americans in the next two years. They speak with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on "Bloomberg Technology."

2) Q1 2017 Earnings Season on Domain Mondo this past week Apple $AAPL, GoDaddy $GDDY, and Facebook $FB. This coming week on May 9th both Tucows $TCX and Rightside $NAME report Q1 2017 results.

3) Broadband Internet & Satellites--Investing in America’s Broadband Infrastructure: Exploring Ways to Reduce Barriers to Deployment - Hearings - U.S. Senate Committee On Commerce, Science, & Transportation | commerce.senate.govMay 3, 2017: During the Senate Commerce hearing on Wednesday, Patricia Cooper, SpaceX V.P. of satellite government affairs, testified about the company's plans to deploy a constellation of 4,425 satellites to deliver broadband internet around the world. Note that there currently are only an estimated 1,459 satellites in orbit around Earth. Transcript of Ms. Cooper's prepared testimony (pdf).

4) Chrome OS killing Microsoft & Apple in Education: In 2016, mobile devices running Alphabet Inc's Google’s Chrome operating system accounted for 58 percent of the U.S. market for primary and secondary schools, according to Futuresource Consulting.--Reuters.com

5)  Net Neutrality Rules May Slow Innovation, but Uncertainty Will Be Worse | TechnologyReview.com"FCC chairman Ajit Pai argues that rules governing Internet providers discourage investment, but killing them could create more problems for content providers."

6)  Can Amazon and Twitter Kill Off TV by Streaming Live Events? | TechnologyReview.com"New live Twitter programming and streaming NFL games on Amazon Prime will test whether the Internet can hold the same allure for live action as the humble TV." See also"Celebrate the company that is driving the zeitgeist, where all stories get started, where those addicted to news live. Newspapers come second. TV is a comparative joke. And everybody worth their salt in either medium is right there on Twitter"--Lefsetz.com.

7) ICYMI Tech News Quick Takes:

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2017-04-05

Nolan Bushnell Keynote: The Future of Technology (video)

Keynote "The Future of Technology", Nolan Bushnell

CeBIT Global Conferences - 23 March 2017: Keynote "The Future of Technology" / Nolan Bushnell, Founder Atari & Father of the video game industry 

Interview with Nolan Bushnell

Published on Mar 23, 2017: Nolan Bushnell is a technology pioneer, entrepreneur, engineer and published author. He is best known as the founder of Atari Corporation and Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater. Often cited as the Father of the video game industry, Mr. Bushnell introduced videogames to the masses with "Pong" and many other legendary games.

Over four decades, Bushnell has been a prolific entrepreneur, founding numerous companies, including: Catalyst Technologies, the first technology incubator; Etak, the first car navigation system whose mapping is still the basis for car navigation systems today; Androbot, a personal robotics company; and ByVideo, the first online ordering system.

With his latest startup, BrainRush, he is intent on fixing education with software that uses gamification principles to "addict" students to learning. 

Nolan famously was also the first and only boss Steve Jobs ever had when he worked at Atari. In Walter Isaacson's book "Steve Jobs", Nolan is described as one of the most important mentors and influences in Job's life. Nolan published his first book in 2013, "Finding the Next Steve Jobs". In it he explains how to find, hire and nurture creative people.


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2017-04-04

How Pearson $PSON $PSO Is Disrupting Education Worldwide (video)

How Pearson Is Disrupting Education:

Video above published Mar 20, 2017: CEO John Fallon talks about Pearson’s initiatives.

Pearson PLC


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2017-04-01

Tech Review | Samsung All-in-One Android Smartphone Computer (video)

Domain Mondo's weekly review of technology news:

Features •  1) Samsung DeX: Android Smartphone & Desktop, 2) Q1 2017 Earnings Season, 3)  Digital Learning, Browsers, and Apps, 4)  PayPal On The Edge, 5) The End of Retail as We Knew It, 6) ICYMI Tech News: 12 Quick Takes, and 7) One Last Thing.

1) Android desktop: all you need is a smartphone and dock + external monitor + keyboard + mouse--Samsung’s DeX dock for the Galaxy S8 costs $150 and will ship in April--T-Mobile is giving a free dock to its @Work enterprise customers who reserve the Galaxy S8 in-store. The Samsung Galaxy S8 or S8 Plus connects to the DeX Station via USB-C and lets you also plug in an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse.--TheVerge.com

UPDATE April 3, 2017Android overtakes Windows for first time | StatCounter.com"Android now world’s most popular operating system in terms of internet usage."

Samsung DeX puts your Galaxy S8 on your desktop:

Video above published Mar 29, 2017: Samsung's new DeX dock uses special Android apps to give you a full-screen experience, like a PC. More info here. See also CNET.com's first Galaxy S8 impressions.

Reminiscent of Motorola's Atrix 4G Lapdock (no longer produced), you can expect other Android manufacturers will come out with competing products similar to Samsung's DeX. Will Apple's iPhone and iOS ever catch up with Android? 

Android desktop demo:

Video above published Mar 29, 2017: Currently compatible with Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+, Samsung DeX provides an Android-based, desktop-like experience that enables users to seamlessly access mobile apps, edit documents and browse the web. See also: [Hands-On] 8 Galaxy S8 Features You Should Know About | Samsung.com

Other Tech News:

2) Q1 2017 earnings seasonApple: Panic Time, Again? | Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) | SeekingAlpha.com: Significant share loss in China. Challenges in penetrating Indian market. Declining gross margins for iPhone. A mature and slowing smartphone market. See also Apple iCloud hack threat gets worse: Here's what we've learned | ZDNet.comQ1 2017 earnings coverage on Domain Mondo (alphabetical order): Alibaba BABA; Alphabet GOOG / GOOGL; Amazon AMZN; Apple AAPL; Facebook FB; GoDaddy GDDY; Rightside NAME; Tucows (TO:TC) (NASDAQ:TCX); Twitter TWTR; Verisign VRSN.

3) Digital Learning, Browsers, and Apps | Technology and Learning | insidehighered.com:
"Many of us working in edtech thought that the app would supplant the browser for digital learning. The app seemed to have so much going for it. First, we thought that digital learning would follow social media - migrating from the computer (and the browser) to the mobile device (and the app). Next, we also believed that the app was a more robust and powerful platform to design immersive learning environments than the browser. Web applications were thought to be clunky as compared to the potential elegance of the app. We were wrong. In 2017 online courses continue to be designed for, and run mostly through, our browser based learning management systems (LMS). Every LMS platform has a mobile app, but they continue to be mostly add-ons and appendages to the primary action that occurs in the browser. Nobody has come up with a mobile-first, or mobile-only, LMS app that has the potential of supplanting the browser-first design of the dominant learning management systems."

4)  PayPal On The Edge Of A Cliff  (NASDAQ:PYPL) | SeekingAlpha.com: PayPal will likely face off either directly or indirectly with the big ecosystem plays--Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), in the next five years.

5) The End of Retail As We Knew It--The Retail Death Spiral Continues | SeekingAlpha.com Mar 28, 2017--"... eBay CEO Devin Wenig, March 27, 2017, cnbc.com:
"The fourth quarter, the last holiday season, was a really important inflection point. That was the end of retail as we know it. The restructuring of retail is going to happen much faster than many people expect. I'm not sure that many retailers will make it to the next holiday season." ... Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, recently dumped his decades-old position in Wal-Mart (WMT), and he almost NEVER sells ..."

6) ICYMI Tech News: 12 Quick Takes:
  1. GOP faces backlash over attack on internet privacy rules | TheHill.com
  2. The 265 members of Congress who sold you out to ISPs, and how much it cost to buy them | TheVerge.com: "chump change"
  3. With Washington’s Blessing, Telecom Giants Can Mine Your Web History | WSJ.com"Congress’s repeal of FCC privacy rules could be data boon for Verizon, Comcast, AT&T."
  4. Here's exactly what information of yours ISPs can now collect and sell | mic.com
  5. Latest WikiLeaks release shows how the CIA uses computer code to hide the origins of its hacking attacks and 'disguise them as Russian or Chinese activity' | dailymail.co.uk
  6. The Sleazy Origins of Russia-gate | washingtonsblog.com
  7. Cisco exposes uncomfortable truths about U.S. cyber defense | Reuters.com
  8. T-Mobile Introduces New Network Technology to Protect Customers from Phone Scams | T-Mobile.com
  9. FCC Moves to Confront Scam Robocalls & Malicious Spoofing | Federal Communications Commission | fcc.gov
  10. The Wall Street Informant Who Double-Crossed the FBI | Bloomberg.com
  11. James Comey’s Twitter Account | gizmodo.com
  12. 3 billion solar mass black hole rockets out of a galaxy at 8 million kilometers per hour. | blastr.com
7) One Last Thing: "... Google’s geopolitical aspirations are firmly enmeshed within the foreign-policy agenda of the world’s largest superpower. As Google’s search and internet service monopoly grows, and as it enlarges its industrial surveillance cone to cover the majority of the world’s population, rapidly dominating the mobile phone market and racing to extend internet access in the global south, Google is steadily becoming the internet for many people. Its influence on the choices and behavior of the totality of individual human beings translates to real power to influence the course of history. If the future of the internet is to be Google, that should be of serious concern to people all over the world—in Latin America, East and Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, the former Soviet Union, and even in Europe—for whom the internet embodies the promise of an alternative to US cultural, economic, and strategic hegemony ..."--Julian Assange, Google Is Not What It Seems | wikileaks.org


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2017-03-20

Google X Founder Says Udacity Is Reinventing Universities (video)

Google X Founder Says Udacity Is Reinventing Universities

Video above published on Mar 8, 2017: Sebastian Thrun, Udacity co-founder and the first head of the Google car project, discusses Udacity's new hiring partners and President Trump's policies with Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde on "Bloomberg Technology."

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2017-01-23

MacroView | Trump's Worldview: Brexit & Friends, Partners & Adversaries

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Domain Mondo's weekly review of  macro economic and investing news:

MacroView Feature • Trump's Worldview: Brexit & Friends, Partners & Adversaries:

UK Prime Minister Theresa May to meet with President Trump in Washington D.C., Friday Jan 27:

UK Prime Minister Theresa May will hold talks with US President Donald Trump in the White House this coming Friday (Jan. 27) on issues such as trade and security, with the UK Prime Minister being the first foreign leader to meet the US President since he took office. She told the BBC that the special relationship between the two countries enabled her to raise difficult matters.

Donald Trump: I’ll do a deal with the UK"Donald Trump will offer Britain a quick and “fair” trade deal with America within weeks of taking office to help make Brexit a “great thing”."--The Sunday Times | thetimes.co.uk Jan. 15, 2017.

Bannon and Kushner engineer UK meetings | Axios.com Jan. 21, 2017: "Donald Trump will take his first foreign leader meeting as President with British Prime Minister Theresa May ... A senior source tells Axios that Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon played an important role in pushing the meeting to happen earlier than originally planned. Bannon has also been in contact with Boris Johnson, the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and one of the chief cheerleaders of the Brexit movement. Jared Kushner was also very influential in the process, we are told ..."
"The US is already Britain's second-largest trading partner by country, after Germany. Trade between both countries is already more than 150 billion pounds ($186 billion), and the US is the single biggest source of inward investment to the UK, the [UK] embassy said."--CNN.com Jan. 22, 2017.
Trump's Worldview using the 4 levels noted in Rex Tillerson's Senate confirmation hearing:
Chart: Trump's Worldview | ©2017 DomainMondo.com All Rights Reserved.
Note: "Partners" too numerous to list all. Domain Mondo Editor's categorization based on Trump's past statements
"In India, where the right wing shares a strong political affinity with the American right, Mr. Trump’s inauguration was celebrated by Hindu nationalists and business leaders eager for more trade between the two nations ... “Trump’s victory is confirmed early due to his thoughts against Islamic terrorism and love for India and Hindus,” the group’s leader, Vishnu Gupta, said, according to Reuters. In Egypt, support for Mr. Trump remained fervent among the country’s anti-Islamist establishment."--NYTimes.com

EU Populists See Trump Victory as Beginning of End for Old Order | Bloomberg.com"While a meeting of the populist right would once have been dismissed as a sideshow, Trump’s unexpected rise and the U.K.’s decision to leave the EU in last year’s referendum have focused investors’ concerns on the where the next threat to the European Union project might emerge. “The first major hit on the old order was Brexit,” Le Pen told a couple of hundred cheering supporters in Koblenz’s conference center. EU countries will soon “leave the prison of Europe,” she predicted, branding Merkel’s decision to let almost a million migrants into Germany last year “a catastrophe.” Trump himself has called the move “a catastrophic mistake.” Hammering on the key themes of her election campaign, Le Pen said every member of the euro area must have the possibility of leaving and that the shared currency [euro] is “destroying” the French economy."


Other Macro Economic and Investing News:

•  TPP is deadTrade Deals Working For All Americans | whitehouse.gov: ".... This strategy starts by withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and making certain that any new trade deals are in the interests of American workers. President Trump is committed to renegotiating NAFTA. If our partners refuse a renegotiation that gives American workers a fair deal, then the President will give notice of the United States’ intent to withdraw from NAFTA. In addition to rejecting and reworking failed trade deals, the United States will crack down on those nations that violate trade agreements and harm American workers in the process. The President will direct the Commerce Secretary to identify all trade violations and to use every tool at the federal government’s disposal to end these abuses." (emphasis added)

•  China says can resolve trade disputes with new U.S. government | cnbc.com"I believe China and the United States can resolve any disputes through dialogue and negotiation and that the China-U.S. commercial relationship will not significantly stray from the path of mutual benefit."--Chinese Commerce Ministry spokesman Sun Jiwen

 •  Inside the Trump White House"Mr. Priebus [White House Chief of Staff] is navigating a West Wing crowded with powerful figures in their own right, including the president-elect’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who will always outweigh anyone else regardless of title; the chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon; the counselor Kellyanne Conway; Vice President-elect Mike Pence; and the economic adviser Gary Cohn, the blunt former Goldman Sachs executive who is rising fast in Mr. Trump’s circle."--NYTimes.com. Also: Warren Buffett Supports Trump on Cabinet Picks‘ Overwhelmingly’ | Bloomberg.com.

 •  EU corrupt or just inept? Spain’s Banks Openly Flout the Law Like Never Before | WolfStreet.com: "...“We probably have the best mortgage system in the world,” explained Francisco González, Executive Chairman of Spain’s second largest bank, BBVA, seemingly with a straight face last week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos ..." See also: These Are The 3 Main Issues For Europe In 2017 | ZeroHedge.com"... The EU is built around a massive exporter: Germany ... Neither China nor Russia will be increasing demand for German goods due to their own economic woes. And while Germany has managed to survive thus far by increasing exports to the UK and the US, this is not sustainable ..."

•  Memos from Howard Marks | oaktreecapital.com: "Think back to just before ... [the] election.  What did we know? The polls were almost unanimous in saying Hillary Clinton would win ... There was a near-universal belief that a Trump victory – as unlikely as it was – would be bad for the markets. So what happened?  First Clinton didn’t win ... And secondthe U.S. stock market had its best week since 2014! ... Thus two key observations can be made ... Firstno one really knows what events are going to transpire. And secondno one knows what the market’s reaction to those events will be. One of the key conclusions we should draw from the surprises of 2016 is that the pundits often failed to understand people and their views.  It’s clear that people who work in the media hadn’t understood many average Americans ..."

•  Cutting Cash Would Be a Boon for the World’s Poor, Rogoff Says | Bloomberg.com"The Nordic nations all rank among the least corrupt and most transparent in the world. Cash accounts for less than 5 percent of the money in circulation, making them the least cash-reliant group of countries on the planet. “If you do financial inclusion the way you’ve done it in Denmark for example, where you give everyone free debit cards, it would help a lot of problems,” Rogoff said in an interview in Copenhagen on Thursday, after speaking at a Skagen Funds conference. “I think the poor would be among the biggest beneficiaries.”"  See also These are the Countries with the Biggest Debt Slaves, and Americans Are Only in 10th place | Wolf Street.com.

•  Obama Presidency postscript--nice guy, good golf partner, failed President--among Obama's many failures: Obamacare, Syria, Libya ... and EducationObama administration spent billions to fix failing schools, and it didn’t work | WashingtonPost.com.

 One More Thing:
•  Putin apparently got in the last word on the Russian Dossier Hoax #FakeNews:

Video above published Jan 17, 2017 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin: ".... I am not acquainted with Mr. Trump, I have not met him, I do not know what he will do in the international arena so I have no reason either to attack him, criticise him for something or defend him ... But these false stories are utter nonsense ... When Trump came to Moscow a few years ago, he was not a politician and we did not know about his political ambitions. He was a businessman, one of the rich people in America. Does anyone really think that our security services chase every American billionaire? Of course not, it is complete nonsense ... Trump arrived [in Moscow] and immediately went to meet with the Moscow prostitutes? First, he is a grown man and secondly, he is a man who was engaged in the organisation of beauty contests and communicated with the most beautiful women in the world for many years. You know, I can hardly imagine that he ran into a hotel to meet with our girls with low social responsibility ... Prostitution is a serious, ugly social phenomenon because many women are involved in it as they have no other way to provide themselves. And it is pretty much the fault of the society and the state. But people who make-up such falsifications that are currently spread about the US President-elect, that are invented and used in the political struggle, those people are worse than prostitutes. They have no moral restraints."


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2017-01-17

Confirmation Hearings LIVE: Trump's Cabinet Nominees (video)

Treasury Secretary Nominee Steven Mnuchin - Senate Confirmation Hearing Jan 19, 10am ET:

Starts at 10 a.m. ET, Senate Finance Committee. "The confirmation hearing on Thursday for Steven Mnuchin, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Treasury secretary, is expected to be divisive and fiery." TheHill.com

Watch LIVE and Replay: Wilbur Ross's confirmation hearing for Commerce Secretary:

Starts: January 18, 2017, 10 am ET

WATCH Betsy DeVos confirmation hearing:

Watch LIVE and replay above (replay also available here and here): Betsy DeVos confirmation hearing to be Secretary of Education, Tuesday, January 17, 2017, 5:00 pm ET, before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

Of greatest interest to investors this week:

Wednesday:
Wilbur Ross (see video above)
Nomination: Secretary of Commerce
Hearing: 10 a.m. ET, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Thursday:
Steven Mnuchin (see video above)
Nomination: Treasury Secretary
Hearing: 10 a.m. ET, Senate Finance Committee

Coverage of confirmation hearings also via c-span.org
Complete list of confirmation hearings listed here.

See also:

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2015-10-13

Udemy, Online Marketplace for Education (video)



Udemy: Online Marketplace for Education (video above) - Dennis Yang, Udemy's chief executive officer, discusses the company's on demand courses and the online education market with Bloomberg's Brendan Greeley on "Bloomberg West," September 28, 2015.

Udemy.com is a platform or marketplace for online learning. Unlike academic MOOC programs driven by traditional collegiate coursework, Udemy provides a platform for experts of any kind to create courses - Wikipedia


Domain name: udemy.com

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2015-07-23

Pearson Sells Financial Times to Nikkei, CEO John Fallon Statement


UPDATE (video above) July 24, 2015: Why Nikkei paid Pearson $1.3 billion for the Financial Times: Japan’s biggest financial news publisher surprised the media world by buying the Financial Times and paying a quite a premium compared to other recent newspaper deals. Nikkei Inc., whose flagship Nihon Keizai Shimbun is Japan’s leading business daily, is paying $1.3 billion to Pearson Plc to buy the FT Group, which owns the salmon-hued paper with an editorial team of roughly 500 journalists in more than 50 locations around the world.

Pearson PLC, 5-year stock chart NYSE: PSO
Pearson PLC, 5-year stock chart above (source: google.com)
Pearson NYSE:PSO (5-year chart above) announced today it has agreed to sell its financial media asset Financial Times (FT) to Nikkei, a Japanese financial newspaper. Statement at Pearson to sell FT Group to Nikkei Inc.

Principal domain names of referenced entities:
pearson.com
ft.com
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Pearson CEO John Fallon to Pearson staff (emphasis added)--

"Dear Colleagues,

Today we have made a significant announcement, which is that we have agreed to sell the Financial Times to Nikkei. This is an important moment for both Pearson and the FT, so I wanted to share more about what’s happening and why.

For fifty-eight years, Pearson has been the proud owner of the Financial Times. We’ve invested in its global expansion and digital transformation, through good times and bad; and all the time, protecting its editorial independence and championing the quality and breadth of its journalism. Both Pearson and the FT have benefited greatly from the relationship. The FT is recognised across the globe as an intelligent and authoritative commentator on world events, finance, commerce and economics.

As you all also know, in recent years, we’ve developed an increasing focus on our biggest, most exciting opportunity – to help people make progress in their lives through learning. As that opportunity has crystalised, it’s become clear to me and the Pearson board that the scale of the challenge requires our undivided attention.

The changing media landscape

At the same time, we are at an inflection point in global media.The pace of disruptive change in new technology – in particular, the explosive growth of mobile and social media – poses a direct challenge to how the FT produces and sells its journalism. It presents the FT with a great opportunity too – to reach more readers than ever before, in new and exciting ways.

Nikkei has a long and distinguished track record of quality, impartiality and reliability in its journalism and global viewpoint.The Board and I are confident that the FT will continue to flourish under Nikkei’s ownership.

I’ve every confidence in the FT’s ability to seize the moment, as it has done ably so far, in its digital transformation. The readership is at an all time high, with readers willing to pay more than ever for its journalism. But, after much reflection and detailed analysis of both the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead, we have concluded that the best way to ensure the FT’s continuing journalistic and commercial success is for it to be part of a global, digital news organisation that is 100% focused on these same issues.

The FT remains part of Pearson until we complete the transaction around the end of this year. I’m very pleased that we will continue to work together in areas like business education and teaching English to professionals in countries such as China.

I’ll be over at the FT later this afternoon to meet in person with as many colleagues as possible.

I know many of you across Pearson will have questions about what this means for our Professional line of business, of which the FT is a part. Pearson VUE and our English business remain incredibly important to Pearson, and are a big part of our future. John Ridding, Bob Whelan and Tas Viglatzis will be in touch directly with the Professional teams today, and in the weeks ahead, to keep everyone updated.

Looking Ahead

We plan to reinvest the proceeds from today’s sale to accelerate our push into digital learning, educational services and emerging markets. We will focus our investment on products and businesses with a bigger, bolder impact on learning outcomes, underpinned by a stronger brand and high-performing culture.

This will help us progress toward a future where learning is more effective, affordable, personal and accessible for people who need it most. By doing so, we can help more people discover a love of learning and make progress in their lives.

This is the promise of learning– and the future of Pearson."

Pearson PLC is a British multinational publishing and education company headquartered in London. It is the largest education company and the largest book publisher in the world. (source: Wikipedia)


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