How can companies use machine learning to efficiently understand the needs and wants of their customers, without sacrificing the insights that come from employeesâ intuition and empathy? My company is in the business of helping other firms create...
Read more12 ways to get smarter â in one chart
The level of a personâs raw intelligence, as measured by aptitude tests such as IQ scores, is generally pretty stable for most people during adulthood. While itâs true that there are things you can do to fine tune your natural capabilities, such...
Read moreThe technology coming in 2018: a realistic analysis
 Artificial intelligence and its ramifications, such as machine learning, were the great success stories of 2017, and everything indicates that the technologies that teach machines to think like humans will shape the future. But entities such as...
Read moreTech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats
SAN FRANCISCO â At the start of this decade, the Arab Spring blossomed with the help of social media. That is the sort of story the tech industry loves to tell about itself: It is bringing freedom, enlightenment and a better future for all...
Read moreThis tiny nation has become a âliving labâ for urban innovation
When you think of innovation hubs around the world, Andorra, a tiny country tucked between Spain and France, may not come to mind. But, for several years, the 180-square-mile nation of 77,000 people has served as a âliving labâ for researchers...
Read moreKnow your competencies and control points
A small number of market leaders in the ICT space sit at the top of the ecosystem chain and pocket most of the profits. Despite helping the ecosystem flourish, the majority receive pitiful low returns. Operators that hope to boost their profits...
Read moreThe World’s Fifty Most Innovative Companies in 2017
This year marks the 10th edition of the Fast Company World’s Most Innovative Companies ranking. Our reporting team sifts through thousands of enterprises each year, searching for those that tap both heartstrings and purse strings and use...
Read moreThis biodegradable car is made from sugar beet
Environmentally friendly motoring is often associated with electric or hybrid vehicles or improved fuel efficiency. Now a group of students is challenging the idea that itâs not just the carâs fuel-usage credentials that matter, but its very...
Read moreEmerging economies might be deindustrializing too quickly
As todayâs developed countries grew richer, they experienced a process of âstructural transformationâ. This means they first went through a period of industrialization as the economic center of gravity shifted from agriculture to manufacturing...
Read moreChinese tech giant Tencent has surpassed Facebook in market value
HONG KONG â China’s biggest social network and gaming firm, Tencent Holdings, which last week reported forecast-beating quarterly results, is close to making Malaysia the first foreign country to roll out its WeChat ecosystem, an executive...
Read more100 million more Indians are going to be connected to the internet, thanks to this ambitious plan
India is gearing up for a massive digital transformation of its vast hinterland. In three years from now, the Narendra Modi government plans to lay down the necessary infrastructureâincluding one million kilometres of optical fibre networkâto...
Read moreWarren Buffett perfectly describes why the retail apocalypse is dooming Macyâs, Sears, and JCPenney
Retailers such as Macyâs, Sears, and JCPenney are closing stores as sales decline. Warren Buffettâs book of essays has an explanation for the root of the problem: companies prioritizing short-term goals over long-term investments. If Buffettâs...
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