If staying on message is the first rule of corporate communications, it is also the cardinal sin of social media.More than half of all Americans online use two or more social-media sites. Yet many companies replicate the same message across Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Pinterest and other sites.
If you look at how many times a person says ‘wasted’ in their profile, it has some value in predicting whether they’re going to repay their debt
Michelangelo and Raphael; Leibniz and Newton; Constable and Turner. Does every creative genius need a bitter rival?
Around 29% of millennials — aged 18 to 34 — and 28% of baby boomers — aged 55 to 64 — said they have no money in their savings account.
iOS is the ultimate platform. Developers make unprecedented money off of it, consumers the world over love it, and Apple owns an entire market’s profits in a non-monopolistic way—unlike platforms past.
Of course, California isn't the only state struggling with new methods of public transport. The U.K. police recently announced that hoverboards were not legal to be used on the sidewalk in England or in Wales.
Where do the rights of property owners to rent out their homes end, and where do those of quiet-loving neighbors begin?
Employees with strict workday expected to focus on work in the office, unplug fully at home.
A phone or a tablet or even a Wi-Fi router is more than a product; it's an instrument. They're pieces of culture that also create culture. If you think of your phone as a tool, you're going to dehumanize the person on the other end of it. If you treat it like an instrument, you understand its place, your place, and your relationships' place in the grand symphony of human culture.
The Harvard Business Review methodology allows the public to see which CEO is the most predatory, by looking at the divergence between its financial standing versus its score on “environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance.
Online, Playboy has been PG-13 for more than a year. The magazine found that when it made its website totally “safe for work,” and safe for social media sharing, by dropping nudity, the average reader’s age also dropped—from a late-40s guy to an early-30s dude.By clothing the models in print, Playboy can help the magazine reach another demographic.
The social media site paid just £4,327 ($6,643 US) in UK corporate tax in 2014.Archbishop of York John Sentamu sa(id) individuals and businesses not paying their full tax liabilities (are) “not only robbing the poor, they are actually robbing God.”
Snapchat, with its disappearing content and audience of more than 100 million users, seemed like a natural fit for its own idiosyncratic version of video. But the company may have miscalculated the appetite for original content on the platform—and the cost of producing it. The shuttering of Snap Channel is a reminder that producing original content is hard.
Global venture capital investments surged during the third quarter of this year, reaching highs not seen since the dotcom bubble years even as fears of overheating spread in Silicon Valley.
The legal case being argued in Spain and France highlights a shifting balance between private property and a country’s cultural heritage.At the heart of the matter are questions that many countries are now grappling with: What constitutes a national treasure? And what are the limits of private property rights when it comes to precious art?
"Smart" objects simply don't lend themselves to screens. The result will be new screen-free interfaces, driven by such things as voice commands and gesture controls, or simply automated responses to sensor data. So far, people seem to prefer these next-generation interfaces. In fact, screens came in a distant third in terms of popularity,
Two-dimensional barcodes and QR codes can hold a great deal of information, and the codes printed on airline boarding passes may allow someone to discover more about you, your future travel plans, and your frequent flyer account.
It’s no surprise that most fuerdai, after summering in Bali and wintering in the Alps, reading philosophy at Oxford and getting MBAs from Stanford, are reluctant to take over the family toothpaste cap factory. The Communist Party seems to consider them an economic or even political threat. “They know only how to show off their wealth but don’t know how to create wealth.”
Some employees found out because they no longer had access to their work email accounts and other work tools like GitHub when they woke up.
The court(s) reasoned that, although an isolated gene such as BRCA1 was "a product of human action, it was the existence of the information stored in the relevant sequences that was an essential element of the invention as claimed." Since the information stored in the DNA as a sequence of nucleotides was a product of nature, it did not require human action to bring it into existence, and therefore could not be patented.
To its champions — the people who believe we are on the threshold of a flexible work revolution — the human cloud promises to eliminate skill shortages, ease unemployment and create a global meritocracy where workers are rewarded for their output, regardless of their location, education, gender or race. Critics see unregulated virtual sweatshops, breaking down service sector work into its constituent parts, making people compete in a worldwide race to the bottom
Money back—or free ad pages—if sales don’t increase after running print ads in their publications.16 major media companies representing 72% of the total magazine audience in the U.S. qualify to offer the program. These include Time Inc ; Meredith Corp. ; Hearst Magazines, a unit of Hearst Corp.; and Condé Nast, a unit of Advance Publications Inc.
Researchers estimate that driverless cars could, by midcentury, reduce traffic fatalities by up to 90 percent. Using the number of fatalities in 2013 as a baseline, self-driving cars could save 29,447 lives a year. In the United States alone, that's nearly 300,000 fatalities prevented over the course of a decade
Right now, the purported rise of the gig economy isn't even showing up in official numbers. The number of people who are self-employed or who hold multiple jobs hasn't risen in recent years. But Internal Revenue Service numbers show that income from workers who use 1099 tax forms is increasing. Either the media frenzy around Uber-type jobs is overblown. Or, perhaps, our data collection methods aren't well-equipped to recognize it.
What if there is a penalty for not agreeing to submit to a kind of surveillance? It seems like one question when it's offered as a carrot, but what about when the carrot becomes a stick? What at first seems like a matter of consumer choice becomes embedded in habits and expectations that leave little scope for genuine choice in how much personal data to share.
Viewership of broadcast TV shows on the big four networks (ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC) among 18-to-49-year-olds is down 25 percent from last year. What are they doing instead? Recording shows and watching them later, watching via on-demand services like Netflix, or skipping TV and watching on their phones in apps like YouTube, Facebook, or Snapchat.
Studies continue to indicate that people either aren’t aware of what they’re giving up, or they don’t understand the implications. Part of the reason for this is that the privacy policies of most major corporations (Apple included) are written by lawyers
It’s about how to bring more value to the driver community. (It) has partnered with Hertz to deliver car rental rates for its drivers on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.To help drivers reduce their costs, Lyft has formed a partnership with Shell. The more rides a driver gives in a week, the more money they save at a Shell gas station. Lyft has partnered with Stripe for drivers to get their earnings on demand.
It’s incredibly difficult to have a computer algorithm that duplicates the enormous creativity of taxpayers, but it’s promising. JL
As companies internationalize, their employees lose their shared assumptions and norms. People in different countries react to inputs differently, communicate differently, and make decisions differently. When companies begin to expand, implicit communication stops working.
Dubbed Amazon Connections, the internal system poses questions daily to employees to collect responses on topics such as job satisfaction, leadership and training opportunities.
“We are raising a US$50,000 bounty to obtain the footage, the cockpit audio, the inquiry report and other relevant materials.“We are raising a US$50,000 bounty to obtain the footage, the cockpit audio, the inquiry report and other relevant materials such as the Rules of Engagement active at the time.”WikiLeaks' new bounties could raise hairy legal and security questions.
The “sharing economy” is a meaningless term that was only coined in the first place because of the tech industry’s desire to pretend everything it does is new and groundbreaking. Customers hire temporary labor to cook, clean, drive or queue for the latest iPhone. It’s a far cry from “collaborative consumption”.
There is growing and legitimate research on happiness, and as valid as the much larger and older body of work looking at its inverse: unhappiness. "Measuring happiness is no more mysterious than measuring depression or anxiety. And should be no more controversial."
Though television has long been vilified for the way it supposedly transforms us into passive, shiftless voyeurs, it has just as easily been among the most powerful media forces pushing cultural unity. TV is the cultural baseline — the background that commands attention, that sets the conversation. Now, on our phones and our computers, the conversation continues.
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As a Partner and Co-Founder of Predictiv and PredictivAsia, Jon specializes in management performance and organizational effectiveness for both domestic and international clients. He is an editor and author whose works include Invisible Advantage: How Intangilbles are Driving Business Performance.
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