Career Development How 3 Manufacturing and Production Companies Are Creating ‘Innovation by All’Fortune - Christopher Tkaczyk The manufacturing and production sectors are composed of companies from many different industries. One only must look at the recently published …
Startups FarmWise and its weed-pulling agribot harvest $14.5M in fundingTechCrunch - Devin ColdeweyAutomating agriculture is a complex proposition given the number and variety of tasks involved, but a number of robotics and autonomy companies are giving it their best shot. FarmWise seems to have impressed
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Job Satisfaction Exploring The Next Chapter In Your CareerForbes - H.V. MacArthurWhen I’m coaching people on their careers, many people come to me at a crossroads. They know they are ready for something different but not sure what that is. I call this the Exploratory Stage. It’s a
Sales Collaborative Selling Is The Future Of CPQForbes - Louis ColumbusBottom line: Relying on the wrong or an outdated CPQ system for collaborative selling is like a leaky pipe that drains manufacturers of valuable revenue, margins, time and the chance to grow their channel
Startups Cybersecurity company Acronis hits unicorn status after raising $147 million led by Goldman SachsTechCrunch - Catherine ShuCyber security solutions provider Acronis announced today that it has raised $147 million in funding led by Goldman Sachs, bringing it to unicorn status. The company did not disclose its valuation, but
Startups The team behind Codementor launches Arc to help companies hire talented developers around the worldTechCrunch - Catherine ShuArc, a platform that wants to simplify the process of hiring developers who work remotely, is launching officially today. The new company grew out of Techstars-backed Codementor, an online education platform
Biology Biology as technology will reinvent trillion-dollar industriesTechCrunch - Navin ChaddhaWe face two major threats today: one to the health of our planet and the other to our own. The U.N. says the global population will hit 9.7 billion by 2050, meaning more people consuming more natural than
Fourth Industrial Revolution Why the Fourth Industrial Revolution could spell more jobs – not fewerweforum.org - Jayant Menon Ever since Homo erectus carved a piece of stone into a tool, the welfare of humanity has been on the increase. This technological breakthrough led …
Emmanuel Macron Macron Secures €5 Billion Investment to Boost French Tech StartupsThe Wall Street Journal. - Noemie BisserbePresident unveils commitment from insurers, asset managers in pursuit of global backers for domestic companies PARIS—French insurers and asset managers have pledged €5 billion in investment for homegrown
Education Not All Gifted Children Are From Affluent FamiliesThe Wall Street Journal. - Jason L. RileyTo help the poor rise, the education system needs to ‘raise the ceiling’ as well as ‘lift the floor.’ All of us understand why so many discussions about K-12 education center on bringing low-achieving
Opinion Something Special Is Happening in Rural AmericaThe New York TimesWICHITA, Kan. — For more than a century following the Industrial Revolution, rural and small-town people left home to pursue survival in commercial meccas. According to the American story, those who thrived
Artificial Intelligence AI 50: America’s Most Promising Artificial Intelligence CompaniesForbes - Jillian D'OnfroArtificial intelligence is infiltrating every industry, allowing vehicles to navigate without drivers, assisting doctors with medical diagnoses, and mimicking the way humans speak. But for all the authentic
Apple Store Report: Apple and suppliers investing $1 billion in India to ramp up manufacturing9to5Mac - Chance MillerApple is looking to ramp up its investment in India, according to a new report today. The Times of India reports that Apple will invest $1 billion in India through its “partners” as it looks to expand
Photons This Is Why Neutrinos Are The Standard Model's Greatest PuzzleForbes - Ethan SiegelA. B. McDonald (Queen’s University) et al., The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Institute The Sudbury neutrino observatory, which was instrumental in demonstrating neutrino oscillations and the massiveness
Innovation Create a Culture of Innovation with the 10 Laws of TrustInc Magazine - Soren KaplanLeading organizational change to create a corporate culture that delivers continuous innovation is one of today's most strategic business imperatives. We've seen what happens to companies when customers
Facebook The tech backlash is real, and it’s acceleratingThe Verge - Casey NewtonIs there a backlash toward the technology industry in the culture? I tend to think so, having written about its various twists and turns most weekdays for the past couple years now. But sometimes an obsession
Cement Electrolysis technique makes cement CO2 emission-freenewatlas.com - Michael Irving As the most widely-used building material in the world, it’s no surprise that making cement is one of the single biggest contributors to our carbon …
Accenture How to rearm the creative industry to keep the consultants at bayFast Company - David LidskyStorytelling, the last refuge of ad agency differentiation, is in trouble. The signals are everywhere: Accenture’s acquisition of Droga5, the collapse of Barton F. Graf, even Bain’s purchase of Kantar
Startups How Can Entrepreneurs Assess Their Product-Market Fit?Inc Magazine - QuoraHow can entrepreneurs properly assess their product-market fit before launching? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better the
CEOs Research: Companies Led by Inventors Produce Better InnovationsHarvard Business Review - Emdad Islam and Jason ZeinSeveral studies have shown that leaders play a key role in determining a firm’s innovation success. For instance, overconfident CEOs, CEOs with sensation seeking personalities, and those with general experience
Innovation What is an SFO? Here's Everything You Need to Know About This Type of InvestorInc Magazine - Serhat PalaA new type of angel investor has emerged and they're looking for amazing businesses to put money into. But, unlike other types of angel investors, Single Family Offices (SFO) have a distinctly family to
Startups The secret behind a successful IT startup revealedtimesofisrael.com - Adam Blaier This is the era of unicorns with loads of successful tech companies mushrooming across the world and changing lives. We hear about sassy tech …
Cryptocurrency A New Business Model for the Web? $100 Million Creators’ Fund Seeks to Break Tech Giants’ MonopolyFortune - Jeff John Roberts Tech entrepreneur Stefan Thomas wants to create a version of the Internet that frees creative types from relying on ad money from YouTube or …
Wi-Fi Wi-Fi 6 officially launches today, ahead of iPhone 11 availability on Friday9to5Mac - Ben LovejoyWi-Fi 6 officially launches today, a few days ahead of availability of the iPhone 11, which supports the new, faster standard… Previously, consumers have had to grapple with very unintuitive names to out
Software Development Software development tops list of most in-demand tech skillsTechRepublic - Jonathan Greig In the past year, an astounding 588,504 technology job descriptions included "knowledge of software development principles" according to RS …
Startups Element AI raises $151M on a $600-700M valuation to help companies build and run AI solutionsTechCrunch - Ingrid LundenWhile tech giants like Google and Amazon build and invest in a multitude of artificial intelligence applications to grow their businesses, a startup has raised a big round of funding to help those that
Startups Boston gets a new biotech accelerator with the launch of PetriTechCrunch - Jonathan ShieberAs biotechnology becomes more central to new innovations in healthcare, material science, and manufacturing, one of the nation’s research hubs is getting a new accelerator called Petri to launch companies
Lifestyle (Canada) Quantifying the value advisors provideThe Globe and Mail - Alison MacAlpineFor financial advisors, telling their clients that they “add value” is one thing, but providing them a number that actually demonstrates it makes the argument more compelling. Russell Investments Canada
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