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BI Intelligence This is a preview of a research report from BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here. The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming how companies and consumers go about their days around the world. The technology that underlies this whole segment is evolving quickly, whether […]
FEATURE: There may be no better measure of the progress the exploding esports industry has made in recent years than a gathering planned this week along the glamorous beaches of Cannes. For the next three days, Esports Bar, a conference dedicated to the business side of this surging industry, will gather many actors from the […]
Enlarge / ZBook 15u G5 internals. As a corporate machine, it’s easy to take apart and repair. (credit: Hewlett-Packard) After spending some years improving the quality and design of its premium systems, HP is turning its attention to its mainstream, corporate laptops. The new range of 800-series EliteBooks, ZBook workstations, monitors, and docks, brings many […]
A picture of Brexit doom and gloom has been painted – an artwork constructed by the ‘remoaners’ whose campaign of fear angered leave campaigners during the referendum on whether Britain stays or leaves the EU. ‘Project fear’ (the picture of economic doom and gloom painted by Remainers that would precede Brexit) has been challenged by […]
– Nissan made a daring move a decade ago when it decided to make the Leaf electric car a global mass-production effort rather than a small-scale one that would just satisfy regulators. While it had hoped to sell millions of Leafs by now and have 10 percent of its global sales be EVs by 2015—neither of […]
Virtual reality may be stalled with consumers, but it might be catching on with enterprises. That’s one of the messages delivered recently by the “extended reality” team at Accenture, the big tech and business consulting company. Extended reality applies to augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality applications. To see a company like Accenture embracing […]
IN 2008, when she was in her mid-20s and sitting on a $ 500m inheritance, Liesel Pritzker Simmons asked her bankers about “impact investing”. They fobbed her off. “They didn’t understand what I meant and offered to screen out tobacco,” recalls the Hyatt Hotels descendant, philanthropist and former child film star. So she fired her […]
GUEST: The virtual reality industry is teetering on the brink of expansion to mainstream audiences. VR is making its mark on a variety of industries including entertainment with box office record breakers like 2017’s “It”, healthcare with applied pediatric medical training and advertising with AT&T’s use of a virtual car crash simulation to convey the […]
Nowadays, sex-positivity is mainstream: Amazon sells vibrators for as little as a few dollars, and the honest, open-minded sex-advice podcast Savage Love is consistently at the top of downloads charts. There was a time, not all that long ago, when such things were not quite so out in the open. In her new book, Vibrator […]
Twitter/Fox News White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller test-drove a new insult for traditional media outlets in an appearance on Fox News Tuesday night. Speaking with host Laura Ingraham on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Miller repeatedly referred to the “extreme media,” a term he said he now prefers using to the more familiar pejorative “mainstream […]
