Business – Page 73

Analysis, Business, Economy, Latest Trend, Money Talk

Crowdfunding will provide $65B to boost the 2014 global economy

September 22, 2014

A new law will allow entrepreneurs to equity crowdfund from anyone with the cash and the interest.

Crowdfunding is really big and it’s only going to get a whole lot bigger. If you’ve been skeptical of all the crowdfunding buzz, consider this: By the end of 2014, crowdfunding is estimated to add at least 270,000 jobs and inject more than $65 billion into the global economy, according to estimates from crowdfunding platform Fundable. (Infographic)

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Analysis, Business, government, Latest Trend, Money Talk

U.S. intends to make public drug company payments to doctors despite calls for delay

September 22, 2014

The database is part of the government’s “Open Payments” program.

Scores of doctors’ groups have called for postponement, but the Obama administration intends to stick to its 30 September deadline for making public a database detailing payments and gifts from the drug industry to US physicians, a spokesperson for the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said on 15 September.

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Business, Latest Trend, People Making a Difference, Robots, Science & Technology News

Should Robots Have Their Own Bank Accounts?

September 22, 2014

Typical house-bot shopping on a budget

Futurist Thomas Frey: The year is 2027 and Winston, a newly born house-bot charged with doing a number of domestic chores including cleaning, meal prep, laundry, and building maintenance, has been programmed to not only perform the work, but also restock supplies once they reach a certain level.

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Analysis, App, Business, Great Videos, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

LittleBits’ BitLab is an app store for hardware

September 19, 2014

LittleBits has just announced something called the BitLab, a contest merged with a crowd sourced technology system that allows inventors to create new LittleBits blocks, upload them, and have them made and sold by the company. The system also includes a hardware development kit that allows anyone access to LittleBits’ custom magnetic snap-together leads. (Videos)

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Analysis, Business, Economy, Latest Trend, Money Talk, Science & Technology News

Micro-payments between connected devices could enable a new layer of the economy

September 19, 2014

Many of us now receive payments as well as make payments.

Ross Dawson: Last week I gave a keynote on The Future of Banking to a group of the most senior risk leaders in a major bank, sharing some provocative ideas on how the banking landscape may change in the years to come.

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News, Video Games

China is years ahead of western mobile gaming

September 19, 2014

Instead of putting fun first, Western developers focused too heavily on analytics.

The mobile-gaming gold rush is over, according to Rick Thompson of Signia Venture Partners. But he says the industry can reestablish a stronger, more sustainable model by looking to the East.

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Analysis, Business, Energy, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News, Solar Power, Wind Power

$100B invested in wind or solar will produce more energy than oil

September 18, 2014

By the late 2020s or early 2030s renewables could be competing much more aggressively with the oil market.

Kepler Chevreux, a French investment bank, has produced a fascinating analysis that has dramatic implications for the global oil industry. The investment bank estimates that $100 billion invested in either wind energy or solar energy – and deployed as energy for light and commercial vehicles – will produce significantly more energy than that same $100 billion invested in oil.

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Competition is for losers: Peter Thiel

September 17, 2014

Google makes so much money that it is now worth three times more than every U.S. airline combined.

This question is harder than it looks – what valuable company is nobody building? That’s because your company could create a lot of value without becoming very valuable itself. Creating value isn’t enough—you also need to capture some of the value you create.

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App, Business, Food, Great New Product, Science & Technology News

Brewbot lets you download, brew and drink craft beer right in your own home

September 17, 2014

Brewbot

It isn’t easy to brew your own beer. It’s also hard to brew a good batch of beer, and even harder to duplicate that batch to drink later on. And it is near impossible to simplifying the process so that it’s as effortless as baking cookies because of all the factors involved with the brewing process, including fermentation, location, temperature, and of course the availability of equipment itself.

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Analysis, Business, Education, government, Latest News

Apprenticeship programs could close the skills gap, but have been slow to gain traction

September 20, 2014

Governors from Michigan to North Carolina and the Obama administration have a solution for some of the U.S. manufacturing sector’s woes: German-style apprenticeship programs.

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3D Printer, Analysis, Business, Energy, Great Videos, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News, Solar Power

The sky’s the limit for 3D printing solar panels

September 16, 2014

Solar cell printers.

We’ve come a long way from the solar-powered calculator to waiting to see when innovators are going to give us solar-powered smartphones, where most of our calculators are these days. While the average energy consumer is busy worrying about such everyday concerns, scientists at the Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium (VICOSC) are wondering how to power entire buildings, and pretty much the whole planet, as the technology they are creating will be easily transferred inexpensively to developing and third-world areas, thanks to 3D printing and design. (Video)

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Top 10 ways connected devices will impact every business

September 16, 2014

The IoT will affect all types of organizations.

The number of mobile-connected devices this year will exceed the world’s population. Most organizations will have to respond in some way to the rise of connected devices in order to survive the next decade. As connected products, connected logistics, and connected phones become ubiquitous, they create value for users and risks for companies.

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