Sometimes fast food requires patience, lots of patience!
Quote of the Day: “He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.” – Billy Wilder
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The mobile payment ‘tsunami’ is coming
People are shopping on their phones more so than ever before.
You won’t need to carry a wallet in the not-so-distant future. Smartphones are transforming the way we pay for things online and offline, but mobile payments still have a long way to go before they’re ubiquitous.
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How the Millennial generation shops online
Millennials engage in nearly every online shopping activity.
Millennials have grown up embracing the deep discounts and convenience offered by online shopping. A January 2013 survey from ad agency DDB Worldwide of US web users’ attitudes toward ecommerce found that both males and females ages 18 to 34 were more likely than their 35- to 64-year-old counterparts to engage in nearly every online shopping activity, with 40% of males and 33% of females in the younger age group reporting that ideally they would buy everything online.
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Major retailers that are most threatened by mobile
Mobile raises the showrooming threat to a new level.
The practice of “showrooming,” or viewing an item in a retail store and then buying it online, has brought the e-commerce threat directly to bricks-and-mortar retailers.
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“Worker bee, where were you when I needed you?”
Quote of the Day: “If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?” – Will Rogers
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Second Life officially turns 10 years old
Second Life provides startups with a few hard but valuable lessons on the realities of creating products and building audiences.
The once-trendy virtual world Second Life officially turns 10 years old this week. It’s been years since its initial hype wave. Many technorati thought it would be as important to the internet as Facebook itself and many may even be surprised that SL still exists. In fact, the pioneering VR world is both profitable and maintains a relatively large userbase for a 3D online world.
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A look at the digital future of global retail marketing
Online shopping is the way of the future, and retailers across the globe must keep in step with that trend. (Infographic)
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Webvan rising from the dead, Amazon builds a grocery business
AmazonFresh
Webvan, the online grocery start-up, may have been the single most expensive flame-out of the dot-com era, blowing through more than $800 million in venture capital and IPO proceeds in just over three years before shutting its doors in 2001.
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Steven King’s wife. No, not that wife, the other one!
Quote of the Day: “I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.” – Steve Martin
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Clay Christensen looks at how online learning will shape the future of education
“The future of learning is blended learning for the majority of students.”
Will brick-and-mortar schools as we know them be on their way out? It’s easy to think they will when you hear disruptive economics guru Clayton Christensen’s prediction that by 2019 half of all K-12 classes will be taught online.
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Hmmm, now which car did I drive to work?
Quote of the Day: “I never said most of the things I said.” – Yogi Berra
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Udacity introduces $7,000 Master Degree Program
Georgia Tech teams up with Udacity.
Sebastian Thrun and Udacity’s resolve to re-imagine higher education in a more affordable, accessible virtual classroom. Udacity continues to push forward with its plans to bring higher education online — and not just in bits, pieces and homework assignments.
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