Category Economy

Tiny Snips, Economy, Miscellaneous

TS #46 – The Dire Need for Human Capital

With the growing demand for products and the economy as a whole growing exponentially these days post the pandemic slump, the need for human capital is also on the rise. Companies are courting employees by either incentivizing, keeping the bar…

Shreesha S
June 7, 2021

Tiny Snips, Cybersecurity, Economy, Miscellaneous

TS #33 – The Get-Rich-Quick Business Idea!

To be read in tandem with this earlier post. The perpetrators of the Colonial Pipeline hack DarkSide had sought a $5 million ransom in Bitcoins to free them from their clutches. With no other option, Colonial acquiesced. Right after that,…

Shreesha S
May 19, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Economy, Miscellaneous

TS #23 – The Cost Of A Name Change

Recently, the name of the second oldest colonial city in South Africa – Port Elizabeth or PE – was changed to Gqeberha. The word mixes some of the unique linguistics of a widely spoken language known as Xhosa. And yet, as…

Shreesha S
May 11, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Economy, Tech

TS #22 – Protestify!

In January, Spotify was granted a patent for a voice recognition tech that analyzed user’s voice to infer their mood. The software would also attempt to determine other aspects of user’s identity like gender, age and accent. These data together…

Shreesha S
May 10, 2021

Tiny Snips, Economy, Finance, Miscellaneous

TS #18 – The Swedish Carbon Tax

A carbon tax is basically tax on burning fossil fuels that contain high percentages of carbon. In a more technical term, it is a fee that a government imposes on any company that burns fossil fuels. This is imposed so as…

Shreesha S
May 2, 2021