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(Infographic) Amazon’s Massive Distribution Network in One Giant Visualization
[Business]
2018/09/11 11:01
Last year, Amazon shipped over 5 billion (with a “B”) Prime packages, and the retail giant’s ecommerce market share in the U.S. is on the verge of surpassing 50%.Moving that kind of volume takes an impressive amount of technical sophistication, manpower, and distribution infrastructure. While Amazon does lean on third parties for deliveries and warehousing, the company is also building an in...
(PDF) Mckinsey - A Decade After The Global Financial Crisis
[Investing]
2018/09/10 10:54
The world economy has recently returned to robust growth. But some familiar risks are creeping back, and new ones have emerged. It all started with debt.In the early 2000s, US real estate seemed irresistible, and a heady run-up in prices led consumers, banks, and investors alike to load up on debt. Exotic financial instruments designed to diffuse the risks instead magnified and obscured them as...
Italians Respond To Starbucks’ First And ‘Most Beautiful’ Store Opening In Italy
[Design]
2018/09/10 10:54
Italians Respond To Starbucks’ First And ‘Most Beautiful’ Store Opening In Italy. Starbucks recently opened its “most beautiful store in the world” within the birthplace of the authentic espresso: Italy. Its grand 2,300-square-meter Reserve Roastery that’s situated in the historic Poste building in Piazza Cordusio, Milan, was met with strong opposition when first announced last year. A po...
Gen Z Is Coming to Your Office. Get Ready to Adapt.
[Consumer]
2018/09/10 10:54
More than any generation on record, Gen Z wants financial security. The generation now entering the workforce is sober, industrious and driven by money. They are also socially awkward and timid about taking the reins.Sean McKeon was 11 years old when the 2008 financial crisis shot anxiety through his life in Hudson, Ohio. He remembers his father coming home stressed after the Federal Deposit In...
Artificial Intelligence Could Be The Key To Longevity
[Tech]
2018/09/10 10:53
What if we could generate novel molecules to target any disease, overnight, ready for clinical trials? Imagine leveraging machine learning to accomplish with 50 people what the pharmaceutical industry can barely do with an army of 5,000. It’s a multibillion-dollar opportunity that can help billions.The worldwide pharmaceutical market, one of the slowest monolithic industries to adapt, surpasse...
48% of Millennials Would be Interested in Using Cryptocurrency Primarily
[Consumer]
2018/09/10 10:53
The most well-known cryptocurrency among Americans is Bitcoin.Cryptocurrency — a form of digital or virtual money that is generally designed to be decentralized, secure, and in many cases, anonymous — is popular amongst Americans. A vast majority (79%) of Americans are familiar with at least one kind of cryptocurrency, according to new data from YouGov Omnibus.By far, the most well-known cryp...
(Video) Nubia’s Alpha is a Completely New Direction for Smartwatches
[Product]
2018/09/10 10:53
Nubia wants to be one of the first companies to ride that wave, and the Alpha smartwatch gives us a taste of what that future will look like.With Samsung promising flexible screen phones as early as November this year, it only begs to wonder if fancy folding gadgets will become mainstream in the next couple of years. The Alpha is absolutely radically different. Built with the silhouette of an A...
Why Books are the Only Form of Physical Media Whose Sales are Growing
[Business]
2018/09/10 10:53
The media and entertainment industry has a long history of embracing disruptive innovations, from the printing press to the personal computer. But the rapid shift from physical to digital over the past decade or so has been truly revolutionary. In general, physical media has suffered a great deal. Printed newspapers and magazines have migrated to online versions, while DVDs and CDs have been su...
One-Step USB Disk
[Design]
2018/09/10 10:53
Gone are the days when you have to be so frustratingly delicate with your digital devices! Designed to be touched and shaken, this twist on the USB disk provides modern innovations that make file access quicker, safer, and easier than ever.Only slightly larger than a traditional USB, the One-Step drive features an OLED touch-sensitive screen that performs a variety of tasks on its own. Users ca...
