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Analysis, Business, government, Science & Technology News, Video Games

Analysts predict $13.1 billion game market for China in 2013 with end of game console ban

October 4, 2013

The end of the console ban means that Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft can now legally sell their systems in the country.

Niko Partners, an Asian games market research firm, predicts a $13.1 billion game market for China in 2013. This is in its China Games Market Mid-Year 2013 Update Bulletin, which includes data and analysis of video game salesfor the country that has recently lifted a long-standing ban on consoles. That’s a 28 percent growth for online PC games compared to 2012 and a 60 percent increase for mobile games revenue.

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The Future Favors the Bold – 8 Backcasting Scenarios for Understanding the Future

October 4, 2013

Futurist Thomas Frey: Did you hear about the spy who was caught stealing huge amounts of data by hiding it in the DNA of his skin? Officials couldn’t find any trace of the information on him so they eventually had to let him go.

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Mobile coupons are going mainstream

October 4, 2013

Mobile commerceis exploding. As recently as late 2010, commerce transacted from phones and tablets was only 3% of e-commerce. By the end of last year’s holiday shopping season, that number had risen to 11%. That’s approximately $18.6 billion in consumer spending — and that doesn’t even include travel-related purchases.

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Europe’s biggest loss-making cars

October 3, 2013

Europe’s car makers are facing a rough ride. Their sales are at a 17-year low region-wide. It may seem cruel of the brokerage, Sanford C. Bernstein, to remind them of their biggest commercial wrecks. Most major makers suffered billions in losses. Yet not all cars failed by accidents of poor design, ill-judged technological leaps or wildly optimistic production forecasts.

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Business, Internet, Science & Technology News

Google Shopping Express – a same-day delivery service for online shoppers

October 3, 2013

Google Shopping Express

After six months of testing, Google has officially opened its new service, Google Shopping Express in the San Francisco Bay Area. Google Shopping Express is a new same-day delivery service that is available in the Bay Area, which includes San Francisco and San Jose.

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New frontier of digital franchising will revolutionize the way businesses operate

October 3, 2013

The concept of franchisingas a distribution model has been around since the nineteenth century. In the 1940’s, McDonald’s was the first company to pioneer the distribution model.

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Analysis, Business, Globalism, Latest Trend

What it costs to run a startup in 8 major cities around the world: Infographic

October 2, 2013

London

Running a startup in Zurich versus San Francisco can cost you a whole person’s salary more. Hiring a developer in Mumbai is 15 percent cheaper than if you were hiring one in Sydney.

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Top 8 futuristic office technologies that will change how we work

October 2, 2013

“There’s a lot of potential to build off existing technologies if you can recognize the right business use.”

The Kiplinger Letter has forecast future trends set to change the way we work for 90 years. According to a statement released by the letter, In 1959, they forecast copiers and printers, and in 1963, it mentioned “pocket gadgets” that would allow workers to call anyone from anywhere.

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Business, government

U.S. Postal Service pays futurist to study the future of stamps

October 2, 2013

The Postal Service will pay the futurist $565,769 to assess the future of stamps.

The United States Postal Service is financially strapped but they are paying a futurist more than half a million dollars to assess the future of stamps as the agency struggles to raise revenues.

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Analysis, Business, Robots, Science & Technology News

47% of U.S. jobs could be done by computers: Study

October 1, 2013

Will computers do our jobs better than we can in the future?

Almost half of U.S. jobs are vulnerable to being taken over by computers as artificial intelligence continues to improve, according to a recent study released by Oxford University.

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College degrees are now accessible to anyone with a computer with UniversityNow

October 1, 2013

Gene Wade, CEO and founder of UniversityNow.

UniversityNow is receiving $20.4 million in funding to bring U.S. education out of a “code red.”UniversityNow is building a network of accredited, online universitieswhere students earn undergraduate and graduate degrees at a low cost and in a flexible environment. Its goal is to make higher education more affordable and accessible for people everywhere through the intelligent use of technology.

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Elance debuts Private Talent Cloud to drive freelance revolution

September 30, 2013

By 2020, 40 percent of labor in the U.S. will be comprised of contingent/independent workers.

The federal jobs report that came out recently may have looked bleak, but there is a large and growing group of people who have a sure place in this economy — freelancers. And Elance had debuted its Private Talent Cloud to help companies hire, manage, and pay their freelancers on demand.

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