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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

The world's biggest and fastest search engine can't help but generate terabytes and petabytes of actionable investment intelligence. In fact, Google chief economist Hal Varian (and other economists and forecasters) already use the search engine's data and analytics to predict economic futures.

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You Need a Community, Not a Network

Harvard Business Review

Consider Ashoka , which provides start-up funding and support for social innovators worldwide. Inspiring these consumers to help make electronics retailing more women-friendly, they gave what was at best a loosely connected network of customers some of the trappings of a community.

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What HoloLens Has That Google Glass Didn’t

Harvard Business Review

I admit that when Microsoft unveiled its holographic computing engine at its Windows 10 event last week, I didn’t pay much attention. Doesn’t this face the same ethics and social challenges as Glass? This is precisely what made Glass vulnerable to the ethical and social issues that dogged it. Courtesy of Microsoft.

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Ocado Is Transforming Online Grocery Shopping with AI, But A Skills Challenge Lies Ahead - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM OCADO 

Harvard Business Review

This has been our experience at Ocado, a leading online-only grocery retailer, as we’ve embedded AI across our technology estate. The technology that powers this revolutionary solution is designed and built in-house, and we are now making this platform available to large brick-and-mortar grocery retailers around the world.

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