Around the turn of the century China couldn’t get enough manufacturing. Foreign investors were parking plants there en masse to take advantage of low labor and land costs, contributing to economic growth around 10% per year until 2010. Now as factory work costs more in China, foreign investors are considering new venues and Vietnam has stepped up as one of Asia’s chief alternatives, a reason for its steady GDP growth of around 6% per year.

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Commercial video services are a funny thing- they seem to go through ebbs and flows of industry excitement. One day it seems boring and the next thing you see is live video from a drone, Google releasing Duo, a patient traveling on a dogsled to receive care from a doctor a 1,000 miles away… and then everyone gets excited again. I worked for AT&T in the early 90’s so I’ve seen my share of video excitement curves.

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Where do we get the name for ammonites from?

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IoT disintermediates B2B account management. What is sales’ role when machines take care of and order for themselves? The findings of study into the characteristics of successful sales people are shared and their relevance in the era of IoT.

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NASA shared time-lapse video of Hurricanes Lester and Madeline baring down on Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean, as well as Gaston in the Atlantic.

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The Robots are Coming… to Take Your Job. That’s the title of a recent article in Knowledge@Wharton, which describes how today’s job losses due to automation are just “the tip of the iceberg.”

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Like any innovator, Sydney Skybetter defies stereotyping. Trained at Interlochen Arts Academy and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Skybetter could roughly be described as a choreographer, curator and consultant, catalyzing innovation inside organizations ranging from The National Ballet of Canada to The DeVos Institute / Bloomberg Philanthropies to the University of Southern California. But I’d probably just call him a classic Human Venn Diagram. (His personal website is already on-brand for such a designation.) 

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Steam is cracking down on rampant refund requests for No Man’s Sky.

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