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AT&T, Time Warner, and What Makes Vertical Mergers Succeed

Harvard Business

Combining the second-largest wireless carrier with the fourth-biggest entertainment company — one whose impressive assets include HBO and CNN — is likely to create an unassailable mobile-entertainment business. You gain market power, allowing you to price the asset higher than you could otherwise. That leaves synergy.

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Meet "OSHbot" Lowes New Store Helper; Goodbye Retail Associates, Hello Robots

MishTalk

The future of shopping has arrived Retail Robotics is an exciting and fast growing new market and Fellow Robots is at the forefront. After scanning and identifying the object, OSHbot will provide product information to the customer and guide them to its location on store shelves. OSHbot Specs Front Screen: 19.5 It''s well worth a play.

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How disruptive is the 'Sharing Economy'?

freshminds

Another market to target could be single parents who could get involved in tasking platforms such as Taskrabbit to earn money on a schedule that suits them and fits with their childcare commitments. Car companies are also starting to develop wireless entry mechanisms so that owners can rent their vehicle without having to hand over keys.

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