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The Battle for the Last Unconquered Screen-The One in Your Car - WSJ - 0 views

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cars screens Technology entertainment

shared by evgeny lavrov on 08 Apr 19 - No Cached
  • The average American driver spends 51 minutes a day in the car
  • On future screens, local restaurants, doctors’ offices and other services could target ads based on typical driving routes
  • “We see this as the battle for the fourth screen,”
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  • Data privacy is a particular concern for German car makers
  • Beyond Apple and Google, other tech companies are working to get their offerings incorporated into car systems
  • Samsung Electronics Co
  • Microsoft Corp. is also edging
  • The launch of self-driving vehicles in the coming years could bring even more screens into the car, on and off the dashboard, as passengers get more time to work, shop or watch movies on the road.
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Google's Got a Plan to Make the Mobile Web Less Slow | WIRED - 0 views

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Global Technology Society Content Internet

shared by evgeny lavrov on 07 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • it’s clear that in the future, tech companies—not publishers—will be the chief distributors of the news we consume.
  • Google’s AMP
  • is a continuation of that trend
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  • AMP aims to ensure that web content loads just as instantly, and looks just as sleek as it would in a native app.
  • This is about making sure the World Wide Web is not the World Wide Wait
  • The hope, among publishers, is that faster, cleaner content on the web will drive engagement. Attention spans on the web are short, after all, and there are plenty of other articles to read.
  • Google is opening this format to all publishers
  • It will also be interesting to see how Facebook responds to the news
  • While Facebook is onboarding publishers one by one
  • But now, more than ever, these platforms are not only determining what news matters to us, they’re determining the best way to present and publish it, as well
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Web Fashion Retailer Yoox Net-a-Porter Rises on Trading Debut - Bloomberg Business - 0 views

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EMEA Economy Fashion e-com

shared by evgeny lavrov on 05 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • Yoox Net-a-Porter SpA climbed on its debut after the Web distributors of Prada totes and Burberry trenchcoats combined to create the world’s largest online luxury retailer
  • Yoox agreed in March to buy Net-a-Porter from Cie. Financiere Richemont SA in an all-stock transaction.
  • competition intensifies in Web retailing of luxury goods
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Technology Banking Alternative Currency Economy

shared by evgeny lavrov on 28 May 15 - No Cached
  • M-Pesa’s success has been phenomenal. Recent statistics show that fully one-quarter of the Kenyan economy flows through M-Pesa.
  • Other countries are taking a crack at a similar mobile digital currency. Vodacom
  • has launched M-Pesa in other African nations, as well as India and parts of Eastern Europe. In Latin America, Ecuador recently announced it would launch a nationwide digital currency, residing largely on people’s smartphones
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  • digital currency will bring the same safety and ease of monetary transfer that the M-Pesa has to Kenyans to the roughly 40% of Ecuadoreans who don’t have access to a bank account. Plus, it offers Ecuadoreans the opportunity to start saving
  • What is increasingly evident is that the traditional role of banks is being reimagined by non-banking software and hardware companies
  • Bitcoin will increasingly enter the mainstream and challenge the traditional rails of finance along which money has moved.
  • Goods of all kinds can reach customers in places that just didn’t make financial sense in the past.
  • This leads to the increased competition for all kinds of things, especially for information-based products and services that the United States leans on for much of its economy. Digital currencies, Bitcoin in particular, will lower economic barriers.
  • It might be different kinds of loans, payroll and other small business services and specialized accounts that serve specific needs and populations.
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Inside L'Oreal's Plan to 3-D Print Human Skin | WIRED - 0 views

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Technology Medicine 3D Bioprinting skin

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  • L’Oreal makes cosmetics and hair color. It also makes skin
  • Now it’s talking about
  • printing
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  • The idea is to produce skin more quickly and easily using what is essentially an assembly line developed with Organovo, a San Diego bioprinting company.
  • L’Oreal already
  • produce its patented skin, called Episkin
  • Organovo pioneered the process of bioprinting human tissues, most notably creating a 3-D-printed liver system
  • In concept, it’s the same idea of programming the 3-D printer to print architecture on an X-Y-Z axis
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New Gadget From Amazon Makes Grocery Shopping Dangerously Easy | Gadget Lab | WIRED - 2 views

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Technology connected shopping automation

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