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Manny Osborne-Paradis focused on Olympic push
A wry smile drifts across the face of Manny Osborne-Paradis when a reporter asks the 33-year-old speed skier if he has grown up. “I think I’ve been growing up slowly but surely every year,” he says, while breaking into laughter during an interview with CBC Sports at a downtown Toronto hotel. From his earliest days […]
Lexus LS+ Concept Is a Flagship Focused on Automated Driving
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Lexus LS+ Concept Is a Flagship Focused on Automated Driving
– There are three things auto manufacturers are pretty much required to develop now to stay relevant: electric vehicles, crossovers, and autonomous-driving technology. As to that last one, the industry has decided it’s no longer a question of if driverless cars are coming; it’s a matter of when. Dozens of recent concept cars from all parts of the globe have […]
A huge chunk of men who rule corporate America would prefer if everyone focused less on diversity
Mad Men / Facebook Corporate America is still run by mostly white, old men. According to a new survey, they’re not too bothered about the lack of diversity. Nearly a third of the men surveyed recently by PwC would prefer if less attention was paid to diversity. Thirty-one percent of men said there is too much focus […]
Leaked memo shows the Afghan government is focused on hiring only one ethnic group
Thomson Reuters KABUL (Reuters) – A leaked memo from an staff member in Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s office this week has set off a storm of criticism and accusations that the note lays bare systematic favoritism to Ghani’s own Pashtun ethnic group. The undated memo, about appointments in the Administrative Office of the President (AOP), […]
Everyone is focused on the wrong area of tech right now (AAPL, GOOGL, MSFT, NVDA)
Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook The world is focused on augmented reality right now when they should be paying more attention to machine learning. Both are exciting, but machine learning is the tech powering AR and will make our lives simpler and easier. Everyone is focused on the wrong area of tech right now. Augmented reality is arguably […]
Target Global launches €100M fund focused on early stage startups in Europe and Israel
Target Global — an international VC firm based in Berlin — has announced today the first closing of a new €100 million fund. Focused on early stage startups, the firm’s Early Stage Fund I will invest in both seed and A rounds. It is expected to invest in up to 20 companies throughout the life […]
Ex-sheriff Clarke to join pro-Trump PAC focused on steering Republican lawmakers
Published time: 6 Sep, 2017 03:17 Former Milwaukee sheriff David Clarke is taking a position with the America First Action Network, a conservative-leaning super political action committee targeting GOP lawmakers who don’t vote in line with President Donald Trump’s agenda. On Tuesday, Clarke announced in an email that he would be moving on from past […]
Galore, the publishing company focused on 16- to 24-year-old women, has flipped media’s business model
Galore Galore Media says traditional ads just don’t work for Gen Z, the 70 million people born between 1996 and 2010. Instead it focuses on creating content for marketers and connecting them with influencers. “This is how everybody will have to build a media company in the future.” When the digital-media company Galore talks to […]
