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(PDF) Bain - Reimagining the Digital Bank Branch of the Future
[Business]
2019/01/21 11:34
AI-assisted support and specialists’ advice converge in the branch of the future. More digital, more coaching, better teaming and new networks can lower costs and improve the overall experience.- Leading banks outpace laggards by a factor of four in migrating sales and service interactions to digital channels, delivering a better experience and economics.- It’s crucial to make digital easy an...
Chobani Looks Beyond Yogurt with Its First Plant-Based Product
[Product]
2019/01/21 11:34
Chobani is growing up from its scrappy startup days.This winter, the 10-year-old company launched 30 new items, more than it ever has in one season. The products are spread across three new lines: A lower-sugar alternative to its flagship Greek yogurts, Gimmies for kids and its first-ever non-dairy Chobani retail product, which hits shelves on Wednesday.It's been an "unprecedented" period of ex...
Davos Predicted the Stock Market Selloff of 2018
[Investing]
2019/01/21 11:34
Degates predicted complacency among investors on Fed rates. Consensus right on bonds and Bitcoin, but not on commoditiesThey may not be happy about it, but the masters of the universe proved accurate in predicting the stock market selloff of 2018.Long ridiculed as a reverse indicator, especially for failing to predict the financial crisis, the consensus of delegates at the World Economic Forum...
The Worlds Smallest ‘Computer’ is So Small That a Grain of Rice Dwarfs It
[Tech]
2019/01/21 11:34
The world’s smallest “computer” is so tiny that one would think that it is utterly useless, but as it turns out, it could be big news for the future of health monitoring.IBM’s announcement that they had produced the world’s smallest computer back in March raised a few eyebrows at the University of Michigan, home of the previous champion of tiny computing.Now, the Michigan team has gone eve...
The Future of Voice Assistants like Alexa and Siri Isn’t Just in Homes - It’s in Cars
[Business]
2019/01/21 11:33
As smart speakers take off in the home, it’s important to note that cars are an even bigger market for voice assistants. Some 77 million US adults use voice assistants in their cars at least monthly, compared with 45.7 million using them on smart speakers.There are a few reasons for this:Way more people own cars than smart speakers.Voice tech in cars has been around since 2004 when IBM launche...
The More Coffee You Drink, the Longer You Live, Says Huge Research Report
[Consumer]
2019/01/21 11:33
Drinking coffee in moderation is good for your health but drinking a LOT of coffee is even better.The National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, and the Feinberg School of medicine at Northwestern University recently analyzed coffee-drinking data from the UK Biobank, a long-term study of half a million people in the U.K. aged 38 to 74.The Biobank is a huge sampling, many orders o...
(Infographic) 8 Companies That Own The Beauty Aisle
[Business]
2019/01/21 11:33
Beauty is booming and the number of brands in the space is exploding. The global beauty and personal care market is worth approximately $180B.[click to enlarge]While there are tons of startups pushing forward new beauty trends, the market still largely belongs to a handful of companies who own the majority of household personal care brands.P&G, with a market cap of approximately $199B, rece...
A Speaker and Headphones in Coexistence - Plus/Nest 2019
[Design]
2019/01/21 11:33
An evolution of this original design by Deepanjan Sinha, the Plus/Nest 2019 makes the switch from headphones to speaker a seamless experience.Imagine that you’re just getting home from work and in the middle of your favorite song or tuned in to breaking news on your headphones. You want to change out of your work clothes but don’t want to miss anything by removing your headphones. Well, now y...
(PDF) Deloitte - Tech Trends 2019 : Beyond The Digital Frontier
[Business]
2019/01/20 09:10
What innovations and trends lie beyond the digital frontier? To see clearly and stay ahead of the game, companies must work methodically to sense new possibilities and define their ambitions for tomorrow.LOOKING back a decade to headlines of the day, we are reminded how at that now-distant moment much of the world was still grappling with a cataclysmic recession. In the technology sector, Oracl...
