Many organizations are unprepared for the mobile future.
There are hundreds of entrepreneurs every year whose business plans include the “mobile” buzzword. Many of them are app companies that target consumers or ad networks and platforms that help reach them. But there are even bigger opportunities for startups that leverage mobile technology to solve the most pressing problems for enterprises.
Continue reading… “3 trends that will transform how employees use their phones”
Machines are often filling in for our smarts, not just for our brawn — and this trend is likely to grow.
Although last week’s labor market report showed modest job growth, employment opportunities remain stubbornly low in the United States, giving new prominence to the old notion that automation throws people out of work.
Continue reading… “Is automation alone killing our jobs?”
Filmmakers have a bright future in cinema.
The Technology Summit on Cinema in Las Vegas gave filmmakers a vision of hope as well as a warning at last week’s presentations. The Summit sees a bright future for filmmakers but a cloudy forecast for theaters.
Continue reading… “The future of cinema”
Amazon, Trader Joe’s, and Wal-Mart are, at least experimenting with grocery delivery.
From an economic prospective, the grocery business is loaded with friction. Once a week or more, shoppers must drive to stores, traipse through aisles hunting for what they want, and stand in lines — a gigantic, continual waste of time, patience, and gasoline. Grocers, which stand between food producers and consumers, must maintain chains of stores dotted across a geographical region or across the country, and each store must be serviced by a complex logistical and transportation infrastructure. If any industry is ripe for disruption by online shopping, it should be the grocery business.
Continue reading… “The grocery industry is ripe for disruption”
Amazon was not content with unveiling its Amazon Fire TV set-top box earlier this week, they casually dropped a new gadget into the tech realm Friday — the Amazon Dash. (Video)
Continue reading… “Amazon Dash – barcode scanning, voice-recording grocery gadget”
The solar industry in the U.S. had a record-breaking year in 2013 and it is continuing its explosive growth. Continuing its explosive growth, the U.S. solar industry had a record-shattering year in 2013. Photovoltaic (PV) installations continued to proliferate, increasing 41% over 2012 to reach 4,751MW, According to GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association’s (SEIA) Solar Market Insight Year in Review 2013.
Continue reading… “2013 a record year for U.S. solar industry”
UPS engineers found that left-hand turns were a major drag on efficiency.
UPS announced a new policy for its drivers in 2004: the right way to get to any destination was to avoid left-hand turns. Even if that means following this route that a UPS driver described to an incredulous press member:
“We’re gonna make a right turn onto 135th to Western. We’ll make another right on Western down to 139th. Right turn on 139th and go down to the end of the block and we’ll make another right turn.”
Continue reading… “Why UPS trucks never turn left”
Futurist Thomas Frey: My wife Deb and I just returned from a weeklong trip to South Korea where much of our travel inside the country involved riding on the high-speed KTX Train (Korean Transit eXpress) from city to city.
Continue reading… “The Great Barrier Backlash”
3D printing.
A 20-year-old Indonesian student has helped General Electric save considerable sums of money in development and manufacturing costs by designing a critical aircraft part that was 83 percent lighter and yet still met the safety and design criteria, according to GE’s general manager for technology Christine Furstoss.
Tesla, the electric car company, is slowly reshaping how people think about driving. Following the same pattern can help any social entrepreneur get people excited about world-changing products. Here’s what Tesla is doing.
Continue reading… “Tesla is driving the new Purpose Economy”
There’s been an unprecedented move to in education to standardize the curriculum in schools. Because of that there has been a flurry of business activity among startups and tech companies to cash in on the education reform.
Continue reading… “Education reform has led to an education gold rush”
Candy Crush
If you mentions startups many people think of the dotcom bubble. It seems like it is 1999 all over again: since the highly successful stock market listing last November of Twitter, the micro-blogging service, young technology companies have been lining up to go public.
Continue reading… “Startups are exploding around the world”
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