The 2011 movie "Moneyball" starring Brad Pitt, tells the story of how Oakland A's manager Billy Beane shuns the mainstream methods to scout and fill a major league baseball team roster, and instead uses data to an algorithm called sabermetrics to...
The female icon was also the first person to fly solo from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Oakland, California, doing so in 1935, which also made her the first person to fly across both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Yahoo introduced Genome yesterday at a splashy event in Soho, New York at the Internet Week headquarters, which was kicked off with a talk by Billy Beane, general manager of Major League Baseball's Oakland A's.
Other conference highlights included Oakland A’s GM Billy Beane talking analytics and Forrester Research’s Josh Bernoff on social amplification and positive disruption. The sessions and networking time were predictably abuzz about the convergence...
Josh Bernoff was the Day Two keynote speaker at Covario’s INFLECTIONPoint event, following an excellent conference opening keynote on analytics by Oakland A’s GM Billy Beane. If you’re really lucky, staff members will actively try to cause trouble...
As Beane pointed out, though, the concepts and strategies he used to lead the Oakland A’s to unheard of success against teams who traditionally would have bought the talent and therefore the wins, are just good business.
As described in Michael Lewis’ “Moneyball”, Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane fielded the winningest team in baseball while spending half as much on player salaries as their nearest rival, the New York Yankees.
August marks the month of the annual Second Life Community Conference (this year held in Oakland, California), during which the things one expects from a convention generally happen. I said a few weeks ago that Linden Lab had been doing a bunch of...
If you had signed up to receive more information on Google Offers and live in New York City, Oakland, or San Francisco, you should have noticed an email or two from them in the last day. Get $10 worth for $5 with a limit of one per person - the...
While Portland is now officially available, NYC Downtown, NYC Midtown, NYC Uptown, Oakland / East Bay, and San Francisco are still listing as "coming soon. During an interview last night with Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt at the D9...
Google Offers, Google's version of Groupon or LivingSocial, has launched in Portland, Oregon, and will soon offer daily deals from local restaurants and businesses in New York City (Downtown, Midtown, Uptown), Oakland/East Bay, and San Francisco.
Google Offers, Google's version of Groupon or LivingSocial, has launched in Portland, Oregon, and will soon offer daily deals from local restaurants and businesses in New York City (Downtown, Midtown, Uptown), Oakland/East Bay, and San Francisco.
Oakland County prosecutors, using a Michigan statute normally used to prosecute identity theft or stealing trade secrets, charged Leon Walker, 33, with a felony after he logged onto a laptop he shared with his wife.
At the top of the list is the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, California DMA where fully 32.3 percent adult residents own or use at least one of the three core Apple products. San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA: With Silicon Valley and Apple...
Carol LaGraves was being treated for rheumatoid arthritis at the Center for Rheumatology, Immunology and Arthritis in Oakland Park since last year. CNN/crime nailed one Google search crime story but missed the other.
Google Maps missing Ontario on JetBlue flightOn Sunday, I flew from Boston, MA, to Oakland, CA, on JetBlue -- and was surprised to find that Ontario, Canada, was a blank area on Google Maps when we flew over it.
Google Maps missing Ontario on JetBlue flightOn Sunday, I flew from Boston, MA, to Oakland, CA, on JetBlue -- and was surprised to find that Ontario, Canada, was a blank area on Google Maps when we flew over it.
Google Maps missing Ontario on JetBlue flightOn Sunday, I flew from Boston, MA, to Oakland, CA, on JetBlue -- and was surprised to find that Ontario, Canada, was a blank area on Google Maps when we flew over it.
On Sunday, I flew from Boston, MA, to Oakland, CA, on JetBlue -- and was surprised to find that Ontario, Canada, was a blank area on Google Maps when we flew over it. Last month, JetBlue launched a real-time flight tracking channel featuring Google...
OAKLAND, Calif.and WALTHAM, Mass. Reuters reports that Ask.com has reached a deal with Lycos to power their search engine and search ads. Lycos is the 5th "most popular U.S. Web portal. Ask.com will provide Web search, image search, zoom search and...
