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

MishTalk

Advances in sensors, wireless networking, voice recognition and design prototyping are enabling us to build the smart retail robots that can autonomously navigate through stores, help communicate with customers to understand what they need and locate it quickly. Not even the most knowledgeable human clerk can do that. It''s well worth a play.

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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. But there’s an old saying in corporate strategy: Two turkeys don’t make an eagle.

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How disruptive is the 'Sharing Economy'?

freshminds

However, by 2025, these same sectors could generate over half of all overall sales in these sectors – a potential revenue opportunity worth $335bn. 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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