Tag: Apple
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Apple confirms plan to buy music recognition app Shazam
Shazam confirmed on Monday that it had “entered into an agreement to become part of Apple”. Deal would be iPhone maker’s biggest since $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics Apple on Monday confirmed its plan to buy Shazam, the UK-based music recognition app, in its biggest acquisition since the iPhone maker’s $3 billion deal…
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Athenry gets €4.5m food innovation campus as Apple ‘in limbo’
Regional development projects secure more than €30 million in State funding A new €4.5 million food innovation hub for Athenry is a “vote of confidence” in the town earmarked for Apple’s data centre project, says local TD Seán Canney. “Apple is not dead, but it is in limbo, and this shows that it is not…
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Gigante de tecnologia ameaça bancos
Embora as “fintechs” sejam frequentemente apontadas como um desafio para os bancos tradicionais, é nas grandes empresas de tecnologia que reside a maior ameaça a eles, mostra estudo da consultoria Bain & Company. De acordo com um levantamento, 89% dos clientes de bancos pretendem experimentar um produto financeiro de uma companhia de tecnologia. No entanto,…
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Google’s $2.7 billion EU fine will help innovation, competition commissioner says
Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition, European Commission, on centre stage during the Web Summit 2017 The record $2.7 billion antitrust fine that the European Union slapped on Google in June will help drive innovation, the European commissioner for competition told a tech summit Tuesday. Margrethe Vestager, who has been criticized for targeting U.S. tech…
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Want More Innovation? Change Your Mission Statement.
When it comes to creating an innovation culture, you get what you ask for. The Talking Heads may have alluded to this phenomenon most eloquently in the song “Give Me Back My Name.” The lyrics read: “There’s a word for it, and words don’t mean a thing. There’s a name for it, and names make…
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Innovation: are you delaying the inevitable?
My three-year-old son is constantly teaching me things. Things I should know, like the difference between a Triceratops and a Centrosaurus, and things I thought I knew but didn’t, like how good children’s hearing is (even when you think you’re eating chocolate more quietly than you ever have before.) But I didn’t expect him to teach…
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Innovation is best way to grow economy
We are on the verge of the fourth industrial revolution. All the earlier industrial revolutions were based on commodities, be it water, steam or electronics. However, industrial revolution 4.0 is a different ball game. It is a digital revolution anchored on decommoditisation of economies. Due to its disruptive nature, this is not an…
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When Innovation Centers Don’t Innovate
It’s easy to understand why enterprises find innovation centers attractive. We operate in economies increasingly defined by rapid change — by cloud computing, mobility, on-demand culture, platforms, networks effects, machine learning, apps, pervasive connectivity and, above all, digital disruption. Launching an innovation center probably sounds like a good response to all that of firms navigating digital…
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Buffett faz 87 anos hoje. Ele tem 47 ações que valem R$ 162 bilhões de dólares. Veja quais são.
São Paulo — Warren Buffett, um dos maiores investidores da história, completa 87 anos hoje. Conhecido como o “Oráculo de Omaha”, o bilionário costuma explicar seu sucesso com alguns hábitos simples. São eles: usar boa parte do dia para estudar, não dar muita importância para a opinião alheia e se aproximar de pessoas íntegras. No universo…
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CEO Expedia assume UBER com missão de resgate
Dara Khosrowshahi: a contratação pode custar até 160 milhões dólares ao Uber (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) O iraniano naturalizado americano Dara Khosrowshahi, presidente do site de viagens Expedia, foi escolhido como novo presidente do aplicativo de transportes Uber nesta segunda-feira. A informação é extraoficial, e espera-se que o Uber oficialize a escolha ainda hoje. Em um…
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