Banks still running on 1960’s mainframes. 33% of small insurance claims paid & settled on the spot, by bots. Small business loans typically taking 6 months now taking days. If your interested in Finance, Technology & Disruption, listen to this weeks fascinating Exponential View podcast ‘Disrupting Finance‘ Show notes: Artificial intelligence is unlocking new value…
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Plant-based meat replacements are certainly all the rage at the moment, this was the title of an article on the front page of today’s Investors Business Daily – Four Reasons Why Beyond Meat Stock Is An ‘Extraordinary’ Opportunity. Read the article here
So many good books out there that I would like to read, when I used to get the train to work I’d get through a book about every two weeks, spending 2.5 hours on the train a day makes it pretty easy. The book I’ve chosen to read on my upcoming holiday is: The Lean…
I was reading a post on my sisters blog the other day about how to reduce plastic use which got me thinking. I always try to use local stores & farm shops, if we stop using them they will disappear, and their produce normally tastes better, a lot better than the supermarket stuff. However I…
This was the headline of an article to hit my inbox this morning. I was surprised when the VR in question was Oculus. I don’t know why I was surprised but I was, Oculus was the VR company bought by Facebook for $2.3 billion in 2014. “In nearly 15 years of writing about cutting-edge technology,…
Jamie Oliver’s restaurants crash leaving 1,300 jobs at risk https://news.sky.com/story/jamie-olivers-restaurants-crash-leaving-1-300-jobs-at-risk-11725346 Whilst in the US the restaurant industry group keeps going out at all time highs
Facebook has heralded artificial intelligence as a solution to its toxic content problems. Mike Schroepfer, its chief technology officer, says it won’t solve everything.
“Dude I caught my tube today!”, well not quite but I did get my first fix. My fix contained five items: Shorts 2 x Shirts (long & short sleeved) T shirt Polo shirt My initial reaction was that I would return them all, but StitchFix encourage you to try on all the items & leave…
What is it? Kaizala is Microsoft’s new messaging app, on the surface introduced to rival WhatsApp. I haven’t used it but you can read about it here My first thoughts were, this is going to be another Microsoft flop like Windows phone or Zune (their portable music player to rival the iPod). I don’t think…
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