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25 Groundbreaking Companies To Watch In 2017
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The Disruptors To qualify for Inc.'s list, founders needed groundbreaking ideas--and ambitious plans for bringing them to market. Check out the finalists: They're growing food indoors, developing diamonds in a lab, and much more...
Turns Out the World's Best Sales Development Rep Is A Robot
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For all the talk about artificial intelligence (AI) and chat bots, it's refreshing to speak with a company that has tangible results that nearly any business can put to work for their own company. Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to sit down with Alex Terry, CEO of Conversica, who wants to...

Organizing Your Marketing Tech Stack
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Figuring out how to organize your marketing stack is almost like putting together a 1,000 piece blank jigsaw puzzle - impossible. A Q1 '17 survey by CMO Council and RedPoint Global revealed...

Is Artificial Intelligence Ready For Social Media?
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65% of US population uses social media. Worldwide, the number of SM users has topped 2 billion. That's twice as much as the number of people who own a car. Every minute social media users generate 350 thousand Twitter updates and 4 million likes and shares on Facebook. In light of recent events - that is,...

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
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Engineers in the U.S. built a tiny cyber-backpack that allows them to control a dragonfly in flight, their colleagues at MIT equipped a robot with sensors that gave it a sense of touch and their colleagues in Rhode Island and China designed a heat-resistant ceramic that can be squished like a marshmallow but survive temperatures up to 800 degrees Celsius. That's hot...
Coming Soon To Airports Near You: Fast Hybrid-Electric Aircraft For Everyone
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What if quiet flights from nearby airports could get you places much faster and for less than today? What if air transit could be as simple as boarding a bus or a train today? Hybrid-to-electric aviation is poised to bring high-speed regional travel to...
Leaner Than Lean: How Digitalization Transforms Manufacturing
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If you want to see the future of manufacturing, follow the Tama River about 45 kilometers upstream from Tokyo's Haneda Airport to the GE Healthcare facility in Hino, Japan. Inside this outwardly conventional, low-rise suburban business complex is emerging the blueprint for...
The Startup Power Plant: These Engineers Are Building Turbines The Silicon Valley Way
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Many management experts are obsessed with "startup culture," the particular mix of vision, energy and nimbleness that allows companies to take an idea, rapidly prototype it and get it to market in short order. But could the same spirit live inside a large industrial company? GE thinks so, with the help of FastWorks, its speedy product-development initiative. In fact,...

Microsoft Reveals Xbox One X, Its Most Powerful Console Ever
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Bye Project Scorpio, hello to the new Xbox One X. The console, revealed by Microsoft at its E3 2017 conference on Sunday, is promising better graphics for players, whether or not they have a 4K television. They do this by using a technique called "supersampling," where the computer creates images at a quality far higher than the TV can show, and then shrinks it down. This, Microsoft said, makes games look that much better. The new console is...
iPhone 8 Could Bring You Wireless Charging, Face Recognition
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Apple's annual WWDC conference is less than a day away, but you may not have to wait until then for some saucy Apple news. A trio of people who work within Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturer that makes many of Apple's products, did an...
Samsung's Android Rival Wants Some Respect, Finally
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The Hilton Union Square Hotel in San Francisco was busier than normal as people hustled to grab boxed sandwich lunches. The food was provided by Samsung, which played host to a developer conference last week to promote its homegrown Tizen operating system. With a turkey sandwich in hand,...

Fintech Tools That Can Change The World Of Finance
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Fintech, or financial technology, is rapidly gaining ground with consumers as a more accessible alternative to traditional payment and banking systems offered by financial firms. As new fintech tools and software emerge to disrupt the established model,...

The iPhone Decade
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The design for the device that would revolutionize mobile phones and, eventually, the culture at large, arose from hatred. When considering whether to create the iPhone, Apple CEO Steve Jobs found that people largely despised the phones that they had. "Everybody has a cell phone, but I don't know one person who likes their cell phone," he once told...

Former AOL CEO Steve Case Tells CEOs To Prepare For The Tech 3.0 Revolution
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Steve Case, co-founder and former CEO of America Online, has watched the Internet evolve from its earliest days of noisy dial-up access to today's integration with almost every aspect of commerce. Since retiring from the company in 2003, Case has engaged in a number of entrepreneurial endeavors, and also has served as...
Intelligent Robots Could Bring New Opportunities To Manufacturing
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Manufacturers have been using robots and automated applications for a number of years, but new technologies could give machines the ability to think intelligently and learn to optimize their own performance. Michael May, head of Technology Field Analytics & Monitoring at Siemens Corporate Technology, told an audience of...

The $500,000,000 Trend Spinning The Toy Industry Upside Down
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You've seen them on the streets, on your commute and in your office; fidget spinners. The three-pronged pieces of plastic that are flicked for fun were originally designed as a therapeutic tool for children with ADHD and Autism to help calm fidgety behaviors and promote concentration. Kids (and adults alike) are...

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America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster And More Efficient
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Sometime in the next couple of months, the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon and its 808 horsepower will show up in dealership windows like some kind of tiny, red, tire-melting factory. Yes, 808 horsepower. There's no typo...

A Sensor That Could Soon Make Homes Scary-Smart
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If you want to set up a connected home, you've got two options. You can buy a bunch of smart gadgets that may or may not communicate with other smart gadgets. Or you can retrofit all of your appliances with sensor tags, creating a slapdash network. The first is expensive. The second is a hassle. Before long, though,...

Amazon's Store Brand Makes A Lot Of Great Tech, But These Are The 10 Gadgets Actually Worth Buying
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Since 2009, Amazon has sold a variety of products through AmazonBasics. Its generic brand covers everything from tech and fitness to dining supplies. The goal is to give you the most bang for your buck, and while their products might not be as flashy as their competitors', they get the job done. They're also significantly cheaper, and...
10 Must-have Travel Tech Accessories
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Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Life is a journey, not a destination", yeah, well he never had to take a ten-hour flight in coach. Vacations are fun (hopefully), but getting to the destination and losing out on some of the creature comforts of home is kind of a drag. Then you have to...

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