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Perhaps the best way to value a company is by how many enemies it makes.

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Batteries and power supplies generate heat. It’s a simple matter of physics. However, some generate too much heat—possibly enough to cause injury or start a fire. Apparently, a number of power cords from earlier Surface Pro models are subject to excessive overheating, and Microsoft will initiate a recall program later this week.

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Being the technology at the heart of more than 200,000 small to medium sized ecommerce and retail businesses means that Shopify has a unique view into changes in both how consumers are looking to buy, and how the ecommerce and retail industries are shifting to deal with new opportunities created by technology. Here is how we see the year ahead, based on the trends in our data and our perspective on the market.

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Amsterdam’s Adyen has found a $50 billion opening in the thicket of online international transactions.

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Over the past few years, we’ve seen a steady rise in the importance of data analytics, in organizations as varied as consumer goods companies, professional sports franchises, political consultancies, medical research institutions, and financial firms. At the steering wheel of many of the analytics these organizations perform is not necessarily the ever-elusive data scientist but often a data analyst who understands his or her business and department in addition to the data it uses to drive decisions. In fact, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the job market for various data analyst disciplines is growing at 27% annually—far exceeding the national job growth average, which is a mere 11%. Many factors are lining up to make 2016 the “Year of the Data Analyst.”

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It took a lot of work to make Quicken Loans’ Rocket Mortgage fast and simple.

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Research demonstrates that the omnichannel retail experience, allowing customers to move easily among stores, social media, catalogs, and ecommerce websites, is still more dream than reality.

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Lots of chip companies like ARM Holdings,  Intel, NVIDIA and  Qualcomm are spending time and effort to find a place for themselves in the IoT market because they, like I, believe in a gigantic, future market. Some companies are focusing on wearables and drones while others are looking to automotive and smart home. Qualcomm previously spent a lot of their effort on repurposing smartphone chipsets for IoT purposes, which in the short term made sense, but in the long term wasn’t really sustainable. Qualcomm saw this challenge and I believe has addressed it with a multitude of new technologies that address almost every major IoT segment. This is partially because Qualcomm is a big enough company, like Intel, that they can focus on multiple verticals at the same time and actually grow businesses out of them. At CES 2016, Qualcomm showed off the products they have designed purpose-built for IoT. These products include a smart home reference platform, an automotive grade Snapdragon 820A, an LTE modem optimized for IoT and a Bluetooth smart SoC for IoT. They also made some announcements around Wi-Fi connectivity and self-organizing networks, which still somewhat ties into IoT.

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