Chattanooga, Tennessee has found a way to reinvent itself as a startup center of the South

Revolution Chattanooga, Tennessee has a promising startup scene that is intimately supported by the city government. The city struggled for decades in the wake of post-industrialization, but was reinvigorated by city-operated high-speed internet and pro-entrepreneur policies. AOL cofounder Steve Case highlighted the city’s scene in May through his Rise of the Rest bus tour. This […]

TripActions Raises $51 Million Series B to Reinvent Corporate Travel Through Technology

PRESS RELEASE: Travel solutions platform TripActions reinventing corporate travel by giving business travelers more choices, better support when on the road and incentives to book cost-effectively PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 7, 2018– TripActions, a comprehensive business travel platform that is reinventing business travel, announced today it has raised $ 51 million in Series B financing […]

ESPN looks to reinvent itself with a SportsCenter for Snapchat

More than three years ago, ESPN opened a 194,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art production facility known as Digital Center 2. That space was built to house five studios, including the home of its flagship show SportsCenter, which has been airing on TV since 1979. The goal from the beginning was to make the show futureproof, by laying the […]

Can Vietnam reinvent itself as an adventure destination?

Yet while numbers overall are on the rise—and adventure operators and infrastructure continue to emerge—the adventure scene is just starting to feel the flow. As Vietnam’s online English-language newspaper VietNamNet Bridge points out, the sector still only accounts for around 10 per cent of the greater pie, with the potential for a far more diverse […]

How one company learned to reinvent itself daily in the AI age

Online life insurance agency Haven Life announced an upgrade to its service earlier this week that could let you buy a life insurance policy in just a few minutes after answering about 30 questions — possibly with no medical checkup. That speed of underwriting is made possible by artificial intelligence the two-year-old company has built […]

Two Silicon Valley billionaires want to reinvent the Democratic Party with a new project called ‘WTF’

“WTF” is a fitting acronym for LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman’s newest project to rethink what the Democratic Party is today.  Called Win The Future, WTF is starting as a “people’s lobby” where people can vote on policy topics that are important to them, like making engineering degrees free for everyone. “We need a modern people’s lobby […]

Can Capitalism Reinvent Itself?

A workforce that that’s built on flexibility and experimentation sounds ideal. People could work a job for as long as they need. They could parcel out their labor into a a traditional nine-to-five, or work a few hours, leaving themselves time to do with as they see fit. Flexible work could help tackle questions of […]

3 ways retailers are using AI to reinvent shopping

GUEST: In this new age of ecommerce, marketing means providing a seamless experience across channels, delighting customers with same-day deliveries, providing excellent customer service and recommendations, and sending real-time personalized messages your customers will thank you for. But personalized commerce isn’t just about big data — it’s about the innovative ways to use that data. […]