Pushed news: when the news comes to the cellphone

Good news when commitment comes from top management

A great part of our daily life is “governed” by software operated systems. Nevertheless, software engineering is still an “elite realty”, often considered an optional plus. Why do we not experience daily disasters using machines? The main reason is that process and controls are embedded in the programmers’ minds. Their skills and experience generally guarantee acceptable final quality-to-market...

Sensing the News: User Experiences when Reading Locative News

This article focuses on user experiences on reading location-aware news on the mobile platform and aims to explore what experiences this kind of locative journalism generates and how such experiences change the users‟ social interaction with news. We produced a specially designed mobile application and tailored news stories specific to this project called LocaNews in order to explore participan...

Breaking news! When it comes to complications of catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation, experience matters.

D uring the past decade, catheter ablation of atrial fibrilla-tion (AF) has emerged as an important treatment option for patients with symptomatic AF refractory to anti-arrhyth-mic drug therapy. The 2012 Heart Rhythm Society/European Heart Rhythm Association/European Cardiac Arrhythmia Society Expert Consensus Document on Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation provides a Class 1 Level of Evid...

Here comes the sun: good news for bone health!

When Can the Market Identify Old News?∗

Why do investors react to old information? We conjecture that it is cognitively difficult to identify old content combined from multiple sources. We use a unique dataset of news passing through the Bloomberg terminal to differentiate “recombination” stories that draw content from several sources from direct “reprints.” Firms see larger price moves on days when they have more recombination stori...