The number of offshore banks where savers can keep their money and receive good rates is dwindling.
People trying to save are having a tough time at the moment. It is very difficult to get a real return on savings because of low interest rates and relatively high inflation. And there’s still the question of safety: the banking crisis which left millions of savers worrying about the security of their banks was only a few years ago.
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ABC’s Weekend Breakfast with Andrew Geoghegan
Futurist Thomas Frey: On Nov 26-28th, I will be speaking at the Creative Innovations 2012 event in Melbourne, Australia. The theme of the conference will be “Wicked Problems, Great Opportunities! Leadership and courage for volatile times.”
William Sahlman, professor of entrepreneurship at the Harvard Business School
The U.S. economy is in a tough state, with mile-high deficits and slow growth in jobs. There are other countries that are pulling ahead, but some cling to the hope that startups and the spirit of entrepreneurship embodied in Silicon Valley could save the country. That’s one of the conclusions reached by a team of Harvard Business School professors who toured the valley this fall.
iPad foosball table
If you found it hard to give up foosball after you graduated from college and you just don’t have room for one now, all you need now is an iPad and a willing opponent.
Half of people check their phones immediately if they wake up during the night.
A new infographic by Online Psychology Degree shows the extent to which smartphones have basically become a new bodily appendage: (Infographic)
Continue reading… “90% of young adults sleep with their smartphones”
Seeing-eye mannequins
The high-fashion mannequin maker Almax has released the new $5000 EyeSee mannequins. The mannequins contain cameras in their eyes that are connected to facial recognition software that analyzes customers’ faces, classifying them by age, sex, race, and ethnicity. The cameras also can tell merchandisers when the store is getting crowded, and what products or clothing are attracting the most attention.
Continue reading… “EyeSee – seeing-eye mannequins that check out customers for age, sex, and race”
Three billion dollars is almost triple the entire 2011 Black Friday sales of e-commerce sites in the United States.
The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba shocked the web last week with the news that its subsidiaries Taobao (like a Chinese eBay) and T-mall (like Amazon) sold a massive $3.06 billion in product in a single 24-hour period.
Continue reading… “Chinese e-commerce company had $3 billion in sales in just one day”
Jalapeno Kibbles n Bits with Built-in Flamethrowers never really took off.
Something about hand-grenade hairballs making their way into the sock drawers!
Quote of the Day: “The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it’s just sort of a tired feeling.” – Paula Poundstone
Everyone spends their time discussing the work they should be doing rather than actually doing it.
It seems like almost everyone is social today. Every minute, Twitter users average 100,000 tweets, Facebook users post 684,478 pieces of content, Tumblr blog owners publish 27,778 new posts and Flickr users add 3,125 new photos. Facebook and Twitter are great tools for connecting and communicating with people in our social lives, or for brands communicating with customers, the real value of pure-play social tools as standalone applications within a business has yet to be proven.
Continue reading… “Social media in the workplace – Is anyone actually working?”
The iPad is the number one product people want in the next year.
According to the latest data from Nielsen, Apple is going to dominate holiday shopping in the U.S., once again. (Chart)
Continue reading… “Will Microsoft lose the next generation of computer users to Apple?”
Silicon Valley tops the list.
The world’s unquestionable leader in generating high-tech start-ups that launch new technologies that change the way we live and work is Silicon Valley. Many cities around the world have tried to emulate its success. But until recently, the data has been lacking to calibrate and rank how far they have come.
“These models will predict your likelihood of separating from your employer based on everything we know about you and the position.”
You did everything by the book when you went in for that job interview. But, after going through all the effort, would you feel slighted if the interviewer made the ultimate decision about whether or not to hire you based on an algorithm?