Focus less on where value is shifting from and more on where value is shifting to.
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Air travelers resisting the ‘incredible shrinking airline seat ‘
Spirit Airlines, at least, is honest about the tight quarters on its planes. “We’re a cozy airline,” it says on its website. “We add extra seats to our planes so we can fly with more people. This lowers ticket prices for everyone, just like a car pool.”
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Is Technology about to decimate white-collar work?
Kai-Fu Lee, the former head of Google research in China and a top tech investor, sees a huge opportunity to automate routine office work.
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The checkout line’s death knell
Machine vision AI is going to change everything about shopping.
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8 innovative industries that will really boom in 2018
Lots of different fields, from medicine to marketing and tech to leisure, are poised to achieve breakthroughs and revolutions next year.
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A Singapore lab is growing synthetic diamonds and marketing them to millennials
They are real diamonds. That’s what the industry behind diamonds made inside a scientific laboratory wants you to believe.
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The ‘retail apocalypse’ is a myth
If you read the business headlines, it sounds like brick-and-mortar retail stores are dying – a so-called “retail apocalypse.”
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Starbucks closes online store to focus on in-person experience
A Starbucks retail store. The company said it was closing down its online shop at a time when it has aimed to improve the in-store experience.
The next big thing in beer is being a small taproom
Medusa Brewing Company co-founder Keith Sullivan checks on the beer in the brewing area. “There are very few big breweries that have this family, community, connected feel. That’s what we’re selling,” he says.
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Best Buy bets on adults remotely monitoring their aging parents
By 2020, 45 million Americans will be caring for 117 million seniors. The retailer offers a $29 monthly monitoring service using internet-connected gear.
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Asset prices are high across the board. Is it time to worry?
With ultra-loose monetary policy coming to an end, it is best to tread carefully
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Google debuts Tez, a mobile payments app for India that uses Audio QR to transfer money
After several weeks of speculation and leaked details, today Google officially unveiled its first big foray into mobile payments in Asia. The Android and search giant has launched Tez, a free mobile wallet in India that will let users link up their phones to their bank accounts to pay for goods securely in physical stores and online, and for person-to-person money transfers with a new twist: Audio QR, which uses ultrasonic sounds to let you exchange money, bypassing any need for NFC.