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(PDF) BCG - How a Digital Storm Will Disrupt the Parcel and Express Industry
[Business]
2016/12/20 10:20
It’s the year 2026, and you’ve just emerged from a tough earnings call with analysts. Revenue was down by 10%, and profits fell twice that. You tried to pin the blame on e-tailers’ price promotions for their delivery options, but the analysts didn’t buy it. They said you would just have to get used to fighting for share against these new rivals with all their momentum and tech buzz. What a...
OneWeb Raises $1.2 Billion to Launch a ‘Constellation’ of Satellites for High-Speed Internet Access
[Investing]
2016/12/20 10:20
OneWeb, a company that’s setting out to launch a “constellation” of micro-satellites to deliver broadband access, has raised a whopping $1.2 billion in private equity funding from Japan’s SoftBank Group, with participation from some of its existing investors, which include Qualcomm, Airbus, Intelsat, Coca-Cola, and Virgin.Founded out of London in 2012, OneWeb is planning to bring high-speed...
Adding Emotional Intelligence to AI - Emotibot
[Tech]
2016/12/20 10:20
Emotibot combines deep-learning AI, image and text-based recognition software to offer an open-source API for more emotionally aware chatbots.The use of AI chatbots is on the rise, whether it’s helping users with recruitment, insomnia or acting as a hotel concierge, and now China-based Emotibot are enabling developers to offer more personable automated user experiences.In collaboration with MI...
Why Your Customers Are Leaving – and How To Win Them Back
[Consumer]
2016/12/20 10:20
One of the most important questions facing a business of any size is: why do your customers leave?It doesn’t matter if you are a part of a Fortune 500 firm, or if you are a local plumber that works out of a van. This question should be important to you, because it has a huge impact on your livelihood.Oddly enough, it turns out the answer to the question could be deceivingly simple. Businesses...
Kellogg Pivots To Boost Sales of Morningstar Farms
[Business]
2016/12/20 10:19
More meatless options are hitting retail shelves.Much has been made in recent years about how declining cereal sales have hurt breakfast giant Kellogg. The company also has to contend with helping revive another core brand: meatless foods leader Morningstar Farms.Morningstar Farms has had a couple of tough years. It was stung by a recall in early 2015. It holds market-leading positions in the m...
(Video) Gatebox Reimagines Amazon Alexa as Fawning Anime Girlfriend
[Product]
2016/12/20 10:19
"Azuma Hikari" is the holographic interface for the Gatebox.While artificial intelligence-based smart speakers like Amazon Echo and Google Home may be grabbing the headlines, Tokyo-based Vinclu's Gatebox is looking to set itself apart with a virtual assistant who isn't just a disembodied voice, but takes the holographic form of a tiny anime girl who seems a bit too eager to please. The device w...
Analyzing Trump’s ‘Tech Summit’ : The Attendees Ranked By Valuation And Post-Summit Stock Performance
[Investing]
2016/12/19 10:29
Netflix, Salesforce, Yahoo, HP, Uber, and Airbnb were all notably absent.When president-elect Donald Trump held a meeting with founders and executive officers from the technology industry on Dec. 14, the roster of the companies included — and excluded — from the meeting was a matter of intense scrutiny.We examined the companies in attendance and looked at their respective public market valuat...
Aging Is Reversible—at Least in Human Cells and Live Mice
[Tech]
2016/12/19 10:29
Changes to gene activity that occur with age can be turned back, a new study shows.New research suggests it is possible to slow or even reverse aging, at least in mice, by undoing changes in gene activity—the same kinds of changes that are caused by decades of life in humans.By tweaking genes that turn adult cells back into embryoniclike ones, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological S...
How Does Your Favorite News Source Rate on the ‘Truthiness’ Scale ?
[Business]
2016/12/19 10:29
Patent attorney Vanessa Otero recently fanned the flames of the fake news debate when she re-posted a chart on Facebook breaking down various sources by reliability and political viewpoint.“We are living in a time where we have more information available to each of us than ever before in history. However, we are not all proficient at distinguishing between good information and bad information,...
Mercedes-Benz Debuts Croove, Its Own Car-Sharing Network
[Business]
2016/12/19 10:29
It’s become a well-trod refrain, but carmakers are looking at what comes after ownership, and car-sharing between individual owners and renters is one of those models. Mercedes-Benz has begun its own car-share service that adopts that approach – Croove, a platform that has now launched as a pilot in Munich, Germany.Croove is pure peer-to-peer car rental model, where renters use an app to make...
(Video) This Underground Tunnel for Cars Could Cut an Hour-Long Commute Down to 15 Minutes
[Design]
2016/12/19 10:29
Like many cities, London has a serious problem with gridlock. According to Eurostat's Urban Europe report, the city has the worst congestion in Europe — an average commuter there spends 101 hours in traffic every year.An obvious solution to this problem would be to upgrade or expand the existing tube, train, and bus networks to be more efficient and far-reaching, so that more locals use mass t...
These Are The World’s Most Valuable Brands – And This is What They’re Worth
[Business]
2016/12/19 10:29
Apple is the world’s most valuable brand, according to the latest Interbrand ranking.Measured across three components, the ranking looks at the impact of brand on business growth. A brand value of over $178 billion sees Apple top the ranking.Tech is the most valuable sector in this year’s ranking. Fourteen brands are valued in excess of $600 billion. In an article, Interbrand’s Associate Tec...
