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General Electric, Local Motors and University of Louisville have joined forces to open the FirstBuild Micro-factory.
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In order for companies to grow or survive, the strategy of merger and acquisition (M&A) tends to be quite a popular option. It’s either to merge with or to purchase another company, in hope that the synergycreated will be more positive, or often described as “a sum larger than two”. That’s certainly what’s preferred by some of the leading or major players in the software and networking service, namely Apple,Facebook, Google and Twitter.
New media, old problem: Where's the diversity?
Aljazeera.com
As newsrooms strategise to survive in the new economic reality, executives and experts have focused primarily on marketing and innovation as a way to generate revenue.
The technology platform itself was built by global analytics powerhouse SAS SAS who will continue to host the online service, provide analytics software and technical domain expertise.
BIg data will have surpassed big oil in economic value, and we will have global privacy, data protection and surveillance agreements, writes CEO Gerd Leonhard.
BMW's DriveNow car-sharing service wants to add 25 new cities, including 15 in Europe and 10 in the US.
Amid the hubbub surrounding the quota debate and the best way to develop female talent, there's a potential mass exodus waiting to happen.
The companies are aiming to expand the Internet by making it available and easily accessible for everyone.
In the “sharing economy,” cheap access to resources that would otherwise go unused (a spare bedroom, a car, a weed whacker) is just one click away. And for many consumers of services like AirBnB and Lyft and TaskRabbit, the “sharing economy” is pretty nifty.
37 of the world’s 100 largest economies are corporations. Of those 37, most of them are oil companies or banks. It’s worth bearing this in mind when considering why the problem of rising inequality or our failure to act on climate change.
Corporations are created by state-issued charters. Where corporations are violating their duty to the public trust — for example by pouring climate-destroying greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere — governments have an obligation, to stop them from doing so or to revoke their charters.
The rise of the sharing economy has created a new class of entrepreneur. Their startups are monetizing everything from tool swaps to unused parking spots in cities, and one of them just might be the next Airbnb.
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Zipcar and AirBnB aside, sharing isn't just for consumers.
WikiLeaks shows that big corporations and the billionaires behind them consider themselves powerful enough to just ignore governments.
The boss of one of Europe's largest media companies has strongly criticised Google in an open letter printed in a German newspaper.
Yesterday, the German cabinet approved the Renewable Energy Act Reform. The reform, referred to by some as the Feed-in Tariff 2.0 (FiT 2.0), was necessary: In the past few years, Feed-in Tariffs successfully boosted renewable energy deployment in the country. This sparked public and policy discussions around the grid development, market integration and financial instruments that would finally enable Germany to reach its policy target of 80% renewable electricity by 2050.
Unfortunately, the bill passed yesterday fails to address any of these questions. Instead, it strengthens the corporations and energy utilities that have failed to integrate renewables into their business model in the past decade. The following analysis shows why the reform cannot be considered FiT 2.0.
Starting as ‘economy’ stores in America in the early 1900s, staffed by a few employees selling only canned goods, supermarkets have come a long way in a relatively short period of time.
Facebook (NASDAQ: FB ) has taken its time, listened to feedback, and is now fully prepared to launch video advertisements to compete with peers Twitter (NYSE: TWTR ) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ) . With the stock hovering around $70, and being a top industry performer, will it benefit the most from this service?
A few days after selling WhatsApp to Facebook for US$19 billion, Jan Koum stepped into a suite at the St Regis Hotel in San Francisco to celebrate with old friends, including CEOs, reformed hackers and a few people who fell into both those camps.
I think this is a very correct assumption as there seems to be no exit-door in this 'networked society' and clearly technology does not have ethics — but where does this leave us mere mortals?
For the purpose of this discussion lets define 'big data' with my 5V's (expanded from Gartner): the exponential growth of data-velocity, -variety, -volume, -virility and -value. In other words, a lot like before but vastly larger, faster, more varied, more viral and massively valuable - and in the aggregate of these 5 trends lies its mind boggling potency. IMHO, Big Data's economic and social importance will rival that of the oil economy by 2020 - and mobile devices are already the key driver of big data, globally.
Or, how to make money for Silicon Valley venture capitalists while pretending to espouse progressive ideals
Paris, 31 January 2014 — La Quadrature du Net launches a crowd-funding campaign to support the making of the upcoming animation movie about privacy, mass surveillance, and the urgency to rethink our relationship with technology. Help us finance this project!
Big data has consistently been one of the hottest trends to dominate the business world for the past few years, in the context of both large enterprises and small- and medium-sized businesses. One of the primary reasons why it has been so loudly touted and widely adopted is its possibilities for benefiting companies' bottom lines in the best possible ways. Typically, this advantage is realized through the methods in which analyticsand business intelligence are used as the foundation for sales strategies, service initiatives and other tactics for generating revenue.
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