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Do Emojis Reinforce Cultural Stereotypes About Race?

The Horizons Tracker

“For a lot of our technologies there is an ideal user imagined, and these skin-tone modifiers created a moment of rupture for those users—in this case, white people—who suddenly were made aware of race in an interface that had previously seemed raceless to them.” ” Supporting communication. .

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Think SoLoMo or SoCoLoMo – Social Commerce, Local & Mobile – For Digital Success

Modern Servant Leader

Billion in 2010 to 7.9 Billion in 2015. Forrester Research: US eCommerce to Reach Nearly $300 Billion by 2015. CMSWire: Key location-based Technology Stats and the Effect on Business. Pew Internet: The power of mobile. Magnitude : US eCommerce is expected to reach $278.9B Checking In: 16.7

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New Year Entertainment: Predictions, Forecasts, and Projections

The Practical Leader

Forecasters (and politicians) playing to our dark side can trigger those menacing and powerful emotions. Experts forecasted in 2000 that 30 gigawatts of electricity would be generated worldwide through wind power by 2010. It was 200 gigawatts and reached 370 by 2015. ” As of 2014, 390 million units were sold.

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business Review

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives. You would be wrong.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. For example, the global energy player ENGIE and its local partners apply it in the independent power production business in the Middle East.

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Solving the Looming Talent Shortage in the Energy Industry

Harvard Business Review

So just when electric systems need to operate flawlessly — whether to power air conditioners, pump water, or heat homes — long-term challenges to power grids are multiplying. By 2030, the BPC predicts , utilities in the United States will need to hire 150,000 additional workers in information-technology intensive roles.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Similarly, Charles Schwab was the early adopter client of Siebel’s revolutionary CRM system.