Business – Page 39

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The race to monetize artificial intelligence has begun

May 31, 2016

The artificial intelligence (A.I.) battle has been heating up. IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google all continuously release impressive technologies in the space that are capturing the minds of developers and customers. From a market standpoint, A.I. is positioned to become a pillar of the next generation of software technologies. We can expect all those software giants to capture segments of the A.I. space, however, the most interesting question is who can monetize A.I. at scale first.

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Messaging apps are bigger than social networks

May 31, 2016

Around the world, users are logging in to messaging apps to chat with friends and to connect with brands, browse merchandise, and watch content. What were once simple services for exchanging messages, pictures, videos, and GIFs have evolved into expansive ecosystems with their own developers, apps, and APIs.

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China to test ‘Straddle Bus’

May 27, 2016

If you’ve ever imagined yourself driving a monster truck over rush hour traffic, there might be a real job for you some day as a straddle bus driver.

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Ditch traditional banks for bitcoin

May 24, 2016

I’ve been interested in bitcoin (BTC) as a concept since its inception. However, I considered bitcoin more of a cryptographic experiment than something that could affect my daily life.

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A new device can bring super fast internet speeds into your home

May 19, 2016

A Boston startup called Starry is creating a cheap device that can deliver internet access to your business or home, wirelessly, and 100 times faster than the average home connection. The technology behind this device, millimeter wave active phased array, has become increasingly cheaper, and less bulky.

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Japanese automated farm expanding in size and types of vegetables

May 19, 2016

Spread, a Japanese company in the agricultural industry, is expanding into the 21st century. Spread’s automated vertical farm has gained it a lot of fame and now it looks to open new locations and grow new kinds of produce. Vertical farming is quickly emerging across the world and some are even moving into supermarket’s produce section.

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Lack of online privacy causing people to stay away from the internet

May 19, 2016

A survey for U.S. Department of commerce shows nearly half of American household refraining from doing business, posting on social media, or buying online. The reason being the constant threat of data breaches, data collection, and surveillance.

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Startups seeing trend of cutting overspending on employee perks

May 17, 2016

Climbing walls, vacation money, and on-site barbers are all employee perks that could be getting the axe this year in some of Silicon Valley’s start-ups. The culture, finding their venture capital drying up, has become more cash strapped and are starting to take conservative measures to keep the business operating.

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Blockchains are becoming the new secure way to share data

May 12, 2016

Even in 1981 inventors were trying to solve the Internets problems of privacy, security and inclusion with cryptography. With every new process, no solution was perfect, because a third party was involved. Paying with credit card was insecure because too much personal information was involved and transaction fees were steep. In 1998, Nick Szabo wrote a short paper entitled “The God Protocol” in which his point was: Doing business on the Internet requires a leap of faith.

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Public roads may soon see self-driving electric taxis thanks to GM and Lyft

May 10, 2016

GM has invested $1 billion in Lyft and self-driving car technology so they can start testing self-driving taxis on public roads. The program will feature electric Chevy Bolts and “real customers,” who will have the chance to opt in or out, but many details haven’t been hashed out.

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Pharmeceutical companies need to change their business strategies to keep up in the digital age

May 7, 2016

High drug prices are restricting people who need access to potentially life saving medications, from getting what they need. In the U.S. when government authorized patents expire, pharmaceutical companies rush to buy the patents and raise the prices of drugs by 6,000 percent. Martin Shkreli, at a conference, said he didn’t go far enough when raising the price of HIV drug Daraprim by more than 5,000 percent. Now with the rapid growth of digital and medical technology some may have to rethink their strategies for the future.

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Bots are coming to market

May 4, 2016

It used to be that the dream of an iPhone developer was to get an app in front of every user, but now with saturation of the app market and the demands of technological growth, bot stores are becoming the new fad. Chatbots are text based services that let users complete tasks such as checking news, organising meetings, ordering food or booking a flight by sending short messages.

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