Business – Page 153

The future of coworking and why it’s not just for startups and freelancers anymore

January 16, 2013

Coworking is not just for entrepreneurs or freelancers anymore.

Do you define your workplace as fun, friendly, inspiring, collaborative, or productive? If you don’t, then you may need to ditch your desk and head for the nearest coworking space. According to Deskmag’s annual Global Coworking Survey, you don’t need to be an entrepreneur or freelancer to gain the benefits of coworking. Seventy-one percent of participants reported a boost in creativity since joining a coworking space, while 62 percent said their standard of work had improved.

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Alternative Transportation, Business, Great Videos, Science & Technology News

Audi first automaker to get autonomous vehicle license

January 16, 2013

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Audi has became the second company (Google was first) to be licensed to run autonomous vehicles in Nevada. As seen at an exhibition of the tech from its Electronic Research Laboratory, its cars are already well on their way to ditching the driver.

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Analysis, Business, Science & Technology News

Do taller workers earn more money because they are more intelligent?

January 15, 2013

Are taller workers smarter?

Taller workers earn a substantial wage premium. Studies that go back to the middle of the last century attribute the premium to non-cognitive abilities, which are associated with stature and rewarded in the labor market. More recent research argues that cognitive abilities explain the stature-wage relationship.

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend

China’s one-child policy stifles innovation: Study

January 15, 2013

China’s one-child law may be stifling its citizens’ innovation.

Development of a child can greatly be influenced by the number of siblings they have. But what happens when you have an entire nation of only children? China’s one-child law indicates that the policy may be stifling its citizens’ innovative instincts because single children born under the law there are less likely to be competitive, are more pessimistic, and less inclined to take risks, according to a new study. Those were the findings of researchers from Monash University in Australia.

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Business, Latest Trend, sports

Social media is spoiling the Super Bowl ad surprises

January 15, 2013

Super Bowl ad surprises ruined by social media.

There is a growing feeling that marketers’ use of social media is ruining the surprise of Super Bowl ads. Last Super Bowl, just one memorable ad bucked this trend last Super Bowl–Chrysler’s offering with Clint Eastwood–while other firms such as Honda made similar versions available on YouTube and Facebook. General manager-brand marketing for Audi, Loren Angelo, reckons that, with just 24-48 hours’ worth of Internet chatter about the Super Bowl, the reveal is worth everything, allowing an advertiser to have “a much longer conversation with consumers.”

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Analysis, App, Business, facebook

Instagram drops from 40 million to 17 million active users in one month

January 15, 2013

Instagram loses half it’s active users.

At the end of 2012, Instagram changed its Terms of Service (ToS) and it has proved far more calamitous for the Facebook-owned Photo app than first imagined. According to new data, Instagram appears to have lost half of its active users in a month.

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Analysis, Business, Science & Technology News

Top 7 free technologies libraries should be using

January 14, 2013

Free technologies libraries should be using.

There are a lot of free applications and software you can use in your daily life. Here is a list of some of the major free technologies that everyone could be using in their own libraries.

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Analysis, Business, Food, Globalism

Ending the global food crisis – we just need to make use of what we have

January 14, 2013

We could double our food supply just by making farming, shipping, and cooking more efficiently.

By 2075 the global population is set to hit 9.5 billion. It is widely assumed the world will eventually run out of food. According to one UN study, we will need to increase agricultural production 70% by the middle of the century, if we’re to cater to all the expected bellies.

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Analysis, Business, Culture, Latest Trend

If you want to hire a great Chinese engineer you will need to impress his girlfriend’s mother

January 11, 2013

Opportunities in China have generated high expectations from the elders and potential spouses of this new professional class.

China produces 600,000 engineering graduates every year. A former Google product manager thought hiring a good engineer would be easy when he launched his startup, Julu Mobile, in China in 2011. He learned hiring the best wouldn’t be easy.

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Analysis, Business, Great Videos, Human Behavior, Science & Technology News

How research misses the human behind the demographic

January 11, 2013

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Volkswagen recognized that our purpose as people is to lead better lives, not to consume their products.

The word “consumer” is an unavoidable term in marketing. But the label is counterproductive and misguided. The word is counterproductive and misguided and puts corporate interests over customer concerns. It presupposes a response you haven’t earned yet. Their purpose is not to consume your product.

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend

Collaboration – the new competition

January 11, 2013

Even the best individual efforts of leaders and organizations can’t stack up against today’s complex and interconnected problems. They are collaborating to build a new civic infrastructure to advance their shared objectives. It’s called collective impact and it’s a growing trend across the country.

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend

Jobs in the U.S. with the lowest (and highest) unemployment rates

January 10, 2013

Unemployment rate for petroleum engineers is .06%.

Petroleum engineers, detective supervisors, and animal breeders all have one thing in common. They are extremely employable. They’re among the occupations with the lowest jobless rates over the last two years along with dentists and nuclear engineers, according to the Wall Street Journal’s study of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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