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(Patent) There's a Ford Self-Driving Round Games/Meeting Room in Your Future
[Tech]
2018/04/17 10:44
A recent patent shows some of the thinking about fully autonomous cars, which might look nothing like cars do now.Whenever we have shown self-driving cars or autonomous vehicles as imagined 50 or 60 years ago, people are always playing board games or cards, because they didn't have iPads or phones to play with then. But as we know, millennials are driving a board game revival. That's why it is...
Initial Coin Offerings : 1Q 2018 in Review and Future of Crowdfunding.
[Investing]
2018/04/17 10:44
Initial Coin Offerings: 1Q 2018 in Review. There's a bear narrative in the air about ICOs and crypto currencies. It starts out by suggesting that last year was a bubble around Bitcoin, that many unscrupulous parties tried to jump on the bandwagon and take naive investors' money. This spilled out in the fintech, crypto and public markets. See, for example, Long Island "Blockchain" being de-liste...
(M&A) Programming Ed Tech Startup, General Assembly, Sells to Adecco for $413 Million
[Investing]
2018/04/17 10:44
The European human resources services company Adecco Group said that is acquiring the New York-based, programming, design, and management training startup General Assembly for $413 million.With the acquisition, Adecco adds to its ability to provide job training and re-skilling services for businesses. It’s proof that General Assembly’s own business has come a long way since its early days as...
This Chart Shows Every Major Technological Innovation in the Last 150 Years
[Investing]
2018/04/17 10:43
Former Apple chief executive Steve Jobs holds an original iPhone, one of the biggest technological breakthroughs of modern times. - Since 1760, productivity has increased almost 30 fold.- That is largely down to technological innovations like electricity, telephones, and the internet.- Barclays chronicled the world's rising productivity in its latest Equity Gilt Study.Humanity is always moving...
(Video) Sweden's New Electric Highway Works Like a Scaled-Up Slot Car Track - eRoadArlanda
[Tech]
2018/04/17 10:43
The Swedish project eRoadArlanda powers electric vehicles through a slot car-like track embedded in the road.In a move that will probably delight anyone who raced slot cars as a kid (or an adult), the Swedish Transport Administration has just opened a 2-km (1.2-mi) stretch of electrified road that works the same way. The project, dubbed eRoadArlanda, involves embedding electric rails into the r...
The Victorinox Swiss Army SwissCard Fits Discreetly in Your Wallet
[Product]
2018/04/17 10:43
Traditional utility tools are often somewhat bulky and can be awkward to fit anywhere outside of a backpack, so the Victorinox Swiss Army SwissCard has been designed as a solution to this problem.About the size of a credit card and capable of being stored in your wallet, the tool kit includes a ballpoint pen, screwdriver, nail file, scissors, tweezers, a toothpick and a small blade to ensure yo...
(Infographic) Brand Purpose : Consumer Care That Brands Care
[Consumer]
2018/04/17 10:42
According to a new study, 75 percent of global consumers expect brands to contribute to their well-being and quality of life. And purpose is an especially important consideration when marketing to millennials and Gen Zers, who factor in companies’ positions and efforts on social and environmental issues when deciding what to buy and where to work.“The boardroom is prioritizing brand purpose,...
(Patent) Apple's Heads-Up Display Tech for Self-Driving Cars Uses AR to Enhance Driver Safety
[Tech]
2018/04/16 16:46
Apple's work on augmented reality could find a place in its ongoing automotive initiative, with the company considering ways to use AR to show information about the road ahead, including things that are out of the driver's vision. Joining together two fields of interest to Apple, the patent application for an "Adaptive vehicle augmented reality display using stereographic imagery" details an AR...
(PDF) BCG - Global Corporate Banking 2018 : Unlocking Success Through Digital
[Business]
2018/04/16 11:17
Digital technology began reshaping retail banking years ago but has been much slower to shake up corporate banking. Secretly, some corporate bankers might have even hoped they would be spared major disruption. But those hopes, never realistic, have been dashed. Digital disruption has finally come to corporate banking—with a vengeance. Bankers now find themselves under substantial pressure to a...
