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Can Virtual Worlds Provide A Glimpse Into Real-World Behavior?

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers tested their question out via the EVE Online game, which has around 500,000 players fighting, trading, and collaborating in a futuristic galaxy. The researchers tracked trade activity data to understand how people behaved towards each other along a spectrum of friendliness or aggression.

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Mentally Challenged - Was It Bad Hardware, Bad Software or Bad Data?

Building Personal Strength

I'm pretty good at keeping my composure, and it got tested recently at the grocery store. Not just our galaxy, which has over 100 billion stars, but all the stars in all the billions of galaxies. I pushed my cart into a checkout stall where a woman was completing her purchase. But for some reason, there was no forward movement.

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How To Restore A Business Reputation

Strategy Driven

Just look how the reason release of the Samsung Galaxy Fold was handled. Sending out test units to online reviewers, many content creators found that the foldable screen could easily break when pulling off a seeming screen protector. This was not told to said creators ahead of time, and so they quite understandably fell into that trap.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Ratchet & Clank

Joseph Lalonde

People are inspired by you: With the approaching danger of Drek and his evil minions, Captain Qwark (Jim Ward) puts out a call to the galaxy. That was, until this past weekend. The movie theater wasn’t showing anything that caught my attention. So, it was off to Netflix. And figured it was my chance to watch the video-game movie.

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How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market

Harvard Business Review

To get ideas past the approvals gauntlet, it is crucial to have a detailed understanding of how the test works. They had identified a problem with the Galaxy phone brand: If you switched to the Galaxy S2, it was difficult to import your contacts, photos and other data from your old (non-Samsung) phone. What do you do?

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Why Congress Needs to Pass the Innovation Act This Time

Harvard Business Review

Apple settled all of its remaining cases with Google and others last year, and ended its war with Samsung over Galaxy devices running Android , at least outside the U.S. All told, according to the Consumer Electronics Association, a leading trade association, patent abuse is costing the U.S. economy $1.5 billion a week. Yes, a week.

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It's Time for a "Slow Conversation" Movement

Harvard Business Review

I have a Blackberry for production, and a Samsung Galaxy and an iPad for consumption. My day job as a venture capitalist focuses on innovations in digital media and big data, and new models of business information and community connectivity. To put a finer point on it, quantity of conversation cannot substitute for quality of conversation.