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Inside the Big Tech’s Brutal Layoffs

HR Digest

The month ushered in an utterly haunting whiplash in the form of ‘layoffs,’ and shattered the stability of thousands of technology workers across the States. While Twitter is experiencing more root-and-branch, as well as chaotic, activity, advertisers are still avoiding that platform (even if it is just temporarily).

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Word-of-Mouth and Social Media

Coaching Tip

Kenny Rogers does the same thing when he's in town." You wouldn't think that anyone as big in the entertainment field as Jay Leno and Kenny Rogers needs to give away their performances, but they do. Old-School Business + New-School Technologies = Success. He gives a special show for taxi drivers at two in the morning.

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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business Review

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Now some are deepening their existing relationships with local governments and branching out into other types of smart technology implementation. But that’s only one side of the story.

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When Rising Revenue Spells Trouble

Harvard Business Review

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. Industry leaders were buoyant because advertising revenues continued to grow over the next couple of years. Everyone still here? Thought so.

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How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together

Harvard Business Review

Roger Adams, CMO says: “As USAA developed into a data-driven organization, we were able to accurately predict the impact of different marketing investment decisions. New marketing-finance relationships combined with advanced analytics technology are increasing efficiency and delivering “found” dollars to the bottom line.

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The Mainstreaming of Augmented Reality: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., The first AR technology was developed in 1968 at Harvard when computer scientist Ivan Sutherland (named the “father of computer graphics”) created an AR head-mounted display system.

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What Happens After You’re Forced to Resign

Harvard Business Review

As the technology becomes more integrated into everyday life, it will, paradoxically, become more invisible. Jeff Kehoe Sans Chic Making Wearable Tech More Wearable The New Yorker Speaking of technology becoming invisible, let''s face facts: Wearables are ugly. In essence, he learned how to manage it.

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