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Dynamic pricing is going to drive us crazy

“How much does this cost?” has become a surprisingly complicated question. Loading audio narration… The rise of e-commerce, algorithmic pricing, and black-box systems has left consumers feeling like they’re playing roulette when they buy something.To show how unpredictable the process can feel, BI’s Juliana Kaplan conducted an experiment. She tracked…

The billionaire founder of Palo Alto Networks started a new cybersecurity company. Here’s why many people are calling it ‘crazy.’

After more than 25 years building Palo Alto Networks into a $125 billion security giant, billionaire Nir Zuk is making a contrarian bet again.His new startup, Cylake, is rejecting the cloud-based model he once championed, instead building an AI-powered, hardware-based security system for governments, defense contractors, and other highly regulated…