By Stuart A. Thompson
YOUR SMARTPHONE is probably sending your precise location to companies right now. Their job is to turn your shopping trip or doctor’s visit into “Big Data” — another term for corporate intelligence. So far, the companies and individuals profiting from your everyday movements have mostly evaded scrutiny.As Times Opinion continues reporting on a giant trove of mobile phone location data, the companies and people profiting from the privacy invasion are coming into focus.
By Abdo Riani
Building a startup doesn’t begin the day app developers start coding. In fact, with the right team, the easiest part of launching a startup can be building the product. The hardest part is identifying what should be built that your target buyers need and will pay for. Before hiring an app developer, your job is to validate and invalidate hypotheses about user persona, customer expectations, features and pricing.
