Friday, August 10. 2018
Michigan & San Francisco
The sharing economy grew in the last years in different industries. In 2018 the automaker General Motors Inc. (haedquartered in Detroid, MA) launched its peer-to-peer car-sahring service. The couchsurfing platform AirBnB Inc. (haedquartered in San Francisco, CA) celebrated its 10th anniversary.
Friday, July 27. 2018
Redmond & Santa Clara
On the one hand Microsoft Inc (founded 43 years ago and haedquartered Redmond, Washington) and its business were well under way. On the other Intel Inc. (haedquartered Santa Clara, California) and its 50-yerar-history delivered 10 interesting facts.
Friday, June 8. 2018
Grand Rapids & Mountain View
There are 2 lists: On the one hand Forbes magazine published the world's highest paid athletics in 2018. The ranking shows the boxer Floyd Mayweather (born in Grand Rapids, MI) as number #1. On the other hand WPP PLC listed the most valueable global brands in 2018. Google Inc. (headquartered in Mountain View, CA) is the top of the list.
Tuesday, April 17. 2018
Washington D.C. & Aberystwyth
Firstly my eyes went to fuelling the future, which is the haedline of an article with the same name written by Iwan Rhys Morus (living in Aberystwyth, UK). Secondly Timothy B. Lee (living in Washington D.C.) described the fuel at the topic of self-driving cars: The way we regulate self-driving cars is broken—here’s how to fix it.
Thursday, March 29. 2018
Shenzen & Florence
Fast Company published the 50 most innovative companies in 2018. The ranking listed Dà-Jiāng Innovations (located in Shenzhen, China) for his product spark, which is the first drone you can control with hand gestures. Also Gucci (located in Florence, Italy) were awarded: How Gucci brought streetwear swagger to a 96-year-old brand.
Friday, March 16. 2018
Hangzhou & Seattle
On the one hand there is Alibaba Group (haedquartered in Hangzhou, China) and the question, how Alibaba met the challenges of the the present with artificial intelligence. On the other hand a story about Amazon's AI program and how deep learning came to power Alex, Amazon Web Services, and nerly every other division of Amazon Inc. (headquartered in Seattle, WA).
Friday, February 23. 2018
Cambridge & New York
2 book recommendations: Firstly Jeff Sutherland (living in Cambridge, MA) wrote the non-fiction Scrum: The Art of doing twice the work in half the time. Secondly the author Jay McInerney (living in New York, NY) published the novel The good life.
Friday, February 2. 2018
Alexandria & Boston
On the one hand the National Science Board (haedquartered in Alexandria, VA) published the Science & Engineering Indicators 2018. On the other hand Rudina Seseri (living in Boston, MA) examined the question, how AI is changing the game for recruiting?
Friday, January 19. 2018
Boston & Portland
5 ways the web will evolve in 2018, according to Ally MacDonald (living in Boston, MA). Meanwhile Google Inc. launches the new service AutoML: Frederic Lardinois (living in Portland, OR) described the service, which lets you train the custom machine learning models without having to code.
Wednesday, January 10. 2018
Raleigh & Washington D.C.
Firstly Tracy Buckner (living in Raleigh, NC) answered the question: How to be an open business analyst? Secondly Danny Vinik (living in Washington D.C.) outlined the macro economic thesis about the real future of work.
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