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Predicting Changes In The Price Of Bitcoin

The Horizons Tracker

The movements of cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, often seem to be based on no concrete measures, but research from the Illinois Institute of Technology nonetheless proposes evidence that can help to guide investors. In total, they analyzed 25 different variables, including other asset prices, macroeconomic factors, and investor sentiment.

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Changes In Job-Related Training Since Covid-19

The Horizons Tracker

in 2011 to 6.4 “It appears that these general declines apply across industries, with the exception of the construction and wholesale & retail sectors where expenditure per trainee appears to have risen between 2011 and 2017, though average days per trainee declined in these sectors.” in 2011 to 6.4

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Women win class action status to sue Google over pay disparity

HR Digest

This is a significant day for women at Google and in the technology sector, and we are so proud of our brave clients for leading the way,” Kelly Dermody, an attorney representing the women, wrote in an email to Bloomberg. million in 2020. Google had over 135,000 employees as of December.

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It’s Time To Stop VCs Driving Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, data reveal that rates of entrepreneurship have been in perpetual decline across the United States between 1978 and 2011. Indeed, globally venture capital investments are at a record high, with data suggesting that around $300 billion was invested in the first half of 2021, which is more than the entirety of 2020.

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How New Technologies Push Us Toward the Past

Harvard Business Review

Think through the implications of these technologies, however, and an even more startling vision emerges: the future will look more like the past. Today, information and communications technologies remove the need for such proxies. Helping to effect this reversal are any number of new technologies.

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Protect Your Supply Chain During a Pandemic by Using Automation

Strategy Driven

as well as the Tohoku earthquake in Japan in 2011. All of these crises foreshadowed a reality that the global pandemic of 2020 confirmed: There are systemic weaknesses in most companies’ global supply chains that must be mitigated. This is where technology can save the day. Automation may be one of the most important solutions.

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A Futurist Looks at the Future of Marketing

Harvard Business Review

By 2020, most interruptive marketing will be gone. By 2020, unauthorized targeting of consumers will essentially be useless. About Gerd Leonhard: Gerd Leonhard is considered a thought-leader and global influencer in media/content, technology, marketing & communications, telecom, and culture, consulting many leading global companies.