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Goldman Sachs Tells Its Bankers to Loosen Their Neckties
[Consumer]
2019/03/07 10:42
Lunchtime in Manhattan. A memo from Goldman executives told employees, “Please dress in a manner that is consistent with your clients’ expectations.For decades, Goldman Sachs’s bankers have flown across the world pitching prospective clients and drawing up multibillion-dollar deals in expensive suits, ties and pantsuits.Those deal makers can now plan on dressing down — at least a little bit...
App Turns Ordinary Shoppers Into Fashion Models - Superpersonal
[Product]
2019/03/07 10:41
App targets $4.88 trillion online retail market by letting users virtually try on clothes.Spotted: UK-based startup Superpersonal has created an app that will allow users to try on clothes virtually. Users feed the app basic information including gender, height and weight. The app then records the user’s head movements. From this limited data, the app will create a virtual version of the user...
(Infographic) Why Retail Cannabis Could Be the Next Big Investment Boom
[Investing]
2019/03/07 10:41
Imagine being an investor in Microsoft at the time of the company’s IPO in 1986. Or better yet, buying Amazon shares while it was still just an aspiring online book store in the late 1990s.Chances to be an early adopter in the next billion-dollar industry are far and few in between – but it’s exactly what is happening today with the nascent cannabis market. After close to a century of prohib...
‘iPhone X Fold’ Concept Images Envision the Foldable iPhone
[Design]
2019/03/06 10:46
Let’s ignore the fact that this conceptual iPhone XFold has the exact same format as the Samsung Galaxy Fold, because this who-did-it-first battle between iPhone and Samsung isn’t worth our time. It should be, however, more of a who-did-it-better battle. The Samsung Galaxy Fold is absolutely gorgeous, but the iPhone XFold looks like it would be a bigger commercial success… and that’s becaus...
(PDF) BCG - The Emerging Art of Ecosystem Management
[Business]
2019/03/06 10:45
Today’s artists express their vision by stretching far beyond the boundaries of canvas and paint. Through unorthodox juxtapositions of light, color, video, sound, and nature, artists such as Bill Fontana and the artist couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude create immersive experiences that require the input of a complex and highly adaptable network of collaborators—including the spectators themsel...
(Video) Philips Envisions Use of Augmented Reality in Operating Room
[Tech]
2019/03/06 10:45
Philips showcases unique augmented reality concept for image-guided minimally invasive therapies developed with Microsoft.Companies collaborate to combine Philips’ industry-leading Azurion image-guided therapy platform with Microsoft HoloLens 2 mixed reality computing platform as a concept for the operating room of the future Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Barcelona, Spain – At the MWC Barcel...
Amazon's Escalating Logistics Costs
[Investing]
2019/03/06 10:45
Amazon launched a new service called Amazon Day on Thursday, which enables Prime members to have all their orders delivered on the same day of any given week. While Amazon is selling this new feature as a perk that will help customers take control of deliveries and reduce packaging, the new delivery option could also help the e-commerce giant achieve its ultimate goal of carbon-neutral shipment...
Virtual Reality Adds to Tourism Through Touch, Smell and Real People’s Experiences
[Business]
2019/03/06 10:45
Back in 2001, an acquaintance who worked for Lonely Planet told me about a surprise discovery. The travel guide business had an audience of people who would buy their travel books, but never travel. Lonely Planet dubbed them “virtual tourists”.Now Lonely Planet, and others, have become excited by tourism powered by virtual reality (VR) – both on this planet and, thanks to NASA, on others.VR...
Bitcoin's 4-Year Cycle ? This Pattern Suggests Bitcoin could be En Route to $20,000
[Investing]
2019/03/06 10:45
Bitcoin may be getting its groove back, albeit slowly. The digital currency finally snapped a record-setting, six-month losing streak by closing out February with a win, gaining 11% to finish the month just shy of $3,800.[Canaccord Genuity Capital Markets]Now, with a potential base forming, chart watchers are eyeing a pattern, that if correct, could take bitcoin, BTCUSD, -0.18% the best-known c...
