Google virtual assistant aims to upstage Siri
AP: Google is trying to upstage Siri, the sometimes droll assistant that answers questions and helps people manage their lives on Apple’s iPhone and iPad.
Year: 2013
Weather delays raising of WTC spire
CBSnews.com: When the last pieces of its spire eventually rise to the roof, the 104-floor skyscraper that replaces the fallen twin towers will be just feet from becoming the highest in the Western Hemisphere.
What is driving the cost of health care?
Cost shifting‚ an aging population and new technologies are pushing health costs ever higher. State and federal health care reforms seek to reverse the upward spiral.
Farm futures: private equity goes organic
Can a private equity fund stabilize financing for small farmers while advancing cutting-edge sustainable agriculture?
Combined Transport keeps on trucking
Think trucks are smelly, polluting dinosaurs crowding the nation’s highways? Think again, says Mike Card, president of Central Point-based Combined Transport.
Betting on biotech
A scientist grows an incubator.
Will this startup succeed?
A data scientist crunches the numbers.
Celly launches its DIY network
Does the world really need another social network?
Food cart owner Nong balances life, work and play
Narumol Poonsukwattana (Nong), 33, runs one of Portland’s most famous food carts: Nong’s Khao Man Gai.
Reader input: digital world
In 2008, readers weren’t bullish on using digital technologies for business purposes. Less than 10% of respondents to an online survey had used Facebook or business networking sites in the previous six months. Five years later, that number has surged to about 40%.