Gary Hershorn / Reuters When pressed about the 2014 Sochi Olympics’ record $51 billion price tag — a sum that is five times the amount spent on the last Winter Games in Vancouver and that dwarves the GDP of three-fifths of the world’s countries — Vladimir Putin has shrugged off allegations of corruption, insisting that…
Making of Colorado’s Marijuana Millionaires January 14, 2014 I’ve seen a lot of marijuana over the past two weeks, but nothing like this. Less than two miles north of Denver’s central business district lies the headquarters of Garden of the Gods, one of the region’s largest commercial cannabis operations. “We grow 280 pounds a month,”…
Real-Time Data Is Changing The Way Marketers Understand Consumers JAN. 13, 2014, The optiX dashboard gives marketers insight into consumer behavior. This post is sponsored by eXelate. For the last 50 to 70 years, the market research industry has been focused on the same surveys and panels. (Think of those prototypical focus groups,…
The Terrifying Target Data Breach Is Even Worse Than We Thought Up to 70 million Target customers are now believed to have had their data stolen, up from an original estimate of 40 million. The massive Target data breach is much larger than first reported last month and has hurt sales, the company announced Friday….