The Wall Street Journal reports that Bill Burr, who worked for the US Government, in 2003 issued a guide on the best way to create strong passwords. Combine letters, numbers and symbols he said. Change it regularly he said. Burr now admits he messed up. "Much...

The ABA Journal reports that Amazon's Alexa-enabled artificial intelligence devices now can help attorneys, accountants and other timekeepers keep track of their billable time. According to the story, Thomson Reuters has a new assistant that can allow users to simply speak to Alexa and record time. It...

I was honored Thursday to speak on a panel at the SEC's annual small business capital formation forum. I also co-moderated a breakout session developing recommendations to improve regulation of smaller reporting companies. My talk on the panel provided an update on Regulation A+ and...

As reported in the ABA Journal, the unprecedented runaway success of the mobile augmented-reality game Pokemon Go is beginning to create problems in the workplace. For example, as the app directs you to certain places, you could end up in "off limits" areas or a location with...

Your humble blogger was honored yesterday to appear on the SiriusXM Business Radio program "The Business of Health" hosted by the very capable Mitch Goldman. The topic: medical marijuana. We had quite the fascinating group of folks interviewed, including doctors, entrepreneurs and yrs truly. It...

As the thermometer hits 79 today here in NY, the IPO market also seems to be thawing out of a long winter. Last week the BATS stock exchange went public and saw a 21% bump in its first day of post-IPO trading after raising about...

The ABA Journal reports that California may be the first state to approve the use of autonomous or self-driving cars within just a few years. As faithful blogees know, I'm fascinated, excited and maybe a little scared by the prospect of this, as many others...

According to Bloomberg, the Native Americans are getting ready to accept cash earned by cannabis growers and sellers who are not able to deposit it in regular banks due to the still federally illegal nature of what they are doing. The report indicates that only...

I attended a two-day Wharton School-sponsored conference on upcoming business opportunities on Cuba, the second such conference put together by my alma mater. Very high level fascinating speakers and very candid and blunt interactive discussions. Congrats to my friend Faquiry Diaz as one of the...