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August 22, 2017
 
 
 
 
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Fat Lama And The Airbnb Of "Stuff"
 
In a world where millennials prefer Ubers to their own cars, the team at Fat Lama says its not a far leap to think they might also like sharing all kinds of things if given a chance. In London, Fat Lama is giving them that chance with a platform that lets anyone loan/rent anything they have to anyone else. Co-founder Chaz Englander explains why he think the future will be shared as often as it owned.
 
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Google Tracker: Doing Gooooooood
 

While America was busy watching the solar eclipse (hopefully with the appropriate protective eyewear), Google rolled out its new Android OS which created the world’s first crowdsourced “Eclipse Megamovie” using footage from across the U.S. Google and its parent company Alphabet are also ramping up their altruistic activities worldwide, with new investments in African tech, skills and startups; new languages supported by its speech-to-text technology; and a collaboration with ProPublica on a national Hate Crime Index for the U.S.  Read More...

 
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Time For A Restaurant Scheduling Shift
 

Time is money, so why are restaurant managers still spending so much of it putting together a schedule in Excel — or, even worse, with pen and paper — when technology could be doing it for them? Planday’s Kyra Kuik said a digital solution not only has the potential to save time, but is also more workforce-friendly, since so many hourly employees are millennials, and physically going to the workplace to check the schedule just doesn’t make sense to them. But digitizing the schedule is just the first step, according to Kuik. Here’s how she thinks scheduling and the sharing economy could work together.  Read More...

 
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Direct To Consumer: Athletic Gear Arena
 

The athletic arena marches forward with its direct-to-consumer sales, and in today’s Direct to Consumer feature, we explore the latest earnings from Foot Locker and Finish Line. Some analysts are saying the slump in sales is a direct result from big name brands like Under Armour, Nike and Adidas flocking to Amazon for a direct-to-consumer approach to selling.  Read More...

 
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