When we lauded Nike in our first World’s Most Innovative Companies issue in 2008, it was in part because of Nike iD, a then-revolutionary way for its customers to imprint personalized designs onto Nike sneakers. The inclusion of “iD studios” in Niketown stores pointed toward the increasing theatricality required in retail, while iD capability on nike.com reflected the explosive potential of digital commerce.
Day: February 26, 2017
What Accelerators, Incubators, And Hackathons Tell Us About The Future Of Business
If you’ve had a chance to watch the HBO series Silicon Valley , you’ve had a taste of the newfangled business-building apparatus known as the incubator: Jam a group of misfit techies into an awkward locale, and see what genius emerges. It’s easy to underestimate incubators.
In An Uncertain World, These Are The Business Trends We Can Count On
It’s never been good form to talk about politics among friends, but today it just can’t be helped. The Trump Administration is approaching governing in a radically different way, and the uncertainty that it breeds can have a paralyzing effect.
10 Lessons From 10 Years Of The World’s Most Innovative Companies
What we can learn from the challenges and the triumphs that have defined the last 10 years of innovation in business. This month marks my tenth anniversary as editor of Fast Company ; we are also releasing the tenth installment of our World’s Most Innovative Companies coverage.
What Under Armour And HBO Have In Common
I was at an invite-only dinner in the south of France, at a chateau overlooking the Mediterranean during the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival. The lavish al fresco meal was cohosted by talent house WME and ad agency Droga5 , and it featured short speeches from notable media figures: 21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch, model Chrissy Teigen, and HBO chief executive Richard Plepler, among others.
What Taco Bell Learned From Red Bull
For most of the past 10 years, our World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies included at least one ad agency, and sometimes as many as three-leaders like Weiden & Kennedy , Droga5 , and 72andSunny . Yet for the past two years, nothing.
What Taco Bell Learned From Red Bull
For most of the past 10 years, our World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies included at least one ad agency, and sometimes as many as three-leaders like Weiden & Kennedy , Droga5 , and 72andSunny . Yet for the past two years, nothing.
What Taco Bell Learned From Red Bull
For most of the past 10 years, our World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies included at least one ad agency, and sometimes as many as three-leaders like Weiden & Kennedy , Droga5 , and 72andSunny . Yet for the past two years, nothing.
Trump spurred a ‘consumer awakening’ that is pushing…
On January 27, President Donald Trump signed an executive order barring refugees and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the US. Before the day was over, Facebook’s CEO had published a post denouncing the order.
Trump spurred a ‘consumer awakening’ that is pushing…
On January 27, President Donald Trump signed an executive order barring refugees and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the US. Before the day was over, Facebook’s CEO had published a post denouncing the order.
Trump and DNC leader Tom Perez trade barbs on ‘rigged’ elections
Both former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden threw their support behind Perez. The DNC election took multiple rounds of balloting to name a clear winner.
This Volkswagen Atlas concept SUV is built for weekends
In the United States, Volkswagen has a major problem that goes beyond its emissions-cheating scandal. As Business Insider’s Ben Zhang has noted, VW is struggling to sell to Americans.
This Volkswagen Atlas concept SUV is built for weekends
In the United States, Volkswagen has a major problem that goes beyond its emissions-cheating scandal. As Business Insider’s Ben Zhang has noted, VW is struggling to sell to Americans.
This Volkswagen Atlas concept SUV is built for weekends
In the United States, Volkswagen has a major problem that goes beyond its emissions-cheating scandal. As Business Insider’s Ben Zhang has noted, VW is struggling to sell to Americans.
The man who broke records by winning 74 games and $2.5 million…
But for Ken Jennings, the president’s name – Rutherford B. Hayes – was easy to produce. It was June, 2004 and the first of 74 “Jeopardy” games Jennings would go on to win.
Jordan Peele’s horror ‘Get Out’ wins the weekend box office…
Jordan Peele’s directorial debut, “Get Out,” lived up to its 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with an estimated $30.5 million at the domestic box office to win the weekend, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It’s the latest Universal release of a Blumhouse Productions horror to win the box office this year, the last was just a month ago with the hugely successful M. Night Shyamalan movie “Split.”
Jordan Peele’s horror ‘Get Out’ wins the weekend box office…
Jordan Peele’s directorial debut, “Get Out,” lived up to its 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with an estimated $30.5 million at the domestic box office to win the weekend, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It’s the latest Universal release of a Blumhouse Productions horror to win the box office this year, the last was just a month ago with the hugely successful M. Night Shyamalan movie “Split.”
GoPro Integrates App With Huawei’s New Phone in China Push
GoPro Inc. is integrating its mobile editing app into Huawei Technologies Co.’ s newest smartphones, in a marketing push to boost brand presence and sales in China amid sluggish demand in the U.S. The app, called Quik, will come preinstalled on Huawei P10 smartphones as the main editing option for consumers, GoPro announced Sunday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Save or splurge? Making the most of your tax refund
Tax refund time is here. Last year the IRS issued 111 million refunds, with an average refund of $2,860.
Stop phone scammers in their tracks with FONES, an anti-robocalling solution
There’s nothing more annoying than unsolicited phone calls from companies, nonprofits, and folks you’ve never heard of. But thanks to the ubiquity of robocalling, or tech that dials numbers automatically, they’re an increasingly common occurrence.
Growth Seeker: Universal Display Lights Up Portfolio’s Performance
This commentary is an excerpt from the Growth Seeker Weekly Roundup. Click here to learn more about this dynamic portfolio and market information service.
Private Equity Head Tapped to a oeFixa US Intelligence Apparatus. Why?
By Kathleen McBride via Iris.xyz Why should we think the head of a private equity company could effectively “fix” US Intelligence? It is not apparent that this individual is even remotely qualified to fix the US intelligence apparatus.
The new G6 is unlike any other smartphone LG has made
The G6 brings several new features to the G series that finally puts LG’s flagship series on par with the competition. To add those new features, LG also had to remove some signature features, but we doubt many people will be too upset.
Protests erupt after Kyrgyzstan arrests opposition leader
Kyrgyzstan’s former President Roza Otunbayeva attends a rally in support of Omurbek Tekebayev, who was arrested early Sunday morning after arriving at the Central Asian country’s main airport, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017. Hundreds of people protested Sunday in Kyrgyzstan after authorities detained a prominent opposition leader on fraud and corruption charges that his supporters say are politically motivated.
3 Global Factors Including Trump, Brexit That Could Smash Consumer Spending in 2017
Developed markets such as North America and Europe will be bogged down by slowing consumer spending in 2017, as debt, an ageing population and economic stagnation takes hold, analysts at market research firm Euromonitor International predicted in a new report. Euromonitor said that events such as Brexit and the “Trump effect,” as they called it, creates political instability that will be “a key challenge going into 2017.”
What’s in your chicken? CBC’s Marketplace consumer cheat sheet
Marketplace also did a taste test, inviting a group of diners to compare six popular grilled chicken sandwiches against a home-cooked piece of chicken breast. The Competition Bureau says that Hudson’s Bay artificially inflated the regular prices of its mattresses in order to make their sale prices look like a better deal.
Cyborgs Are the Future for Advisors
By Kathleen McBride via Iris.xyz Becoming cyborgs is the way to go for financial advisersa blending robotics and humans into one organism. You see, I am convinced that robo-advice models will succeed and prosper.
Think the Internet Is Polarized? Just Look at the FCC These Days
Earlier this month, in a classic late Friday afternoon news dump, the Federal Communications Commission announced a rollback of two key decisions made during the Obama administration. In another era, few besides policy wonks and internet activists would have noticed such a thing.
Sharp vision: New glasses help the legally blind see
In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, Yvonne Felix wears eSight electronic glasses and looks around Union Square during a visit to San Francisco. The glasses enable the legally blind to see.
Google brings Assistant to Android phones
Google’s voice-activated digital assistant will soon be available on smartphones running the latest versions of the Android operating system. LG was one of the first smartphone makers to reveal it would feature the assistant on its new device, the G6.
No Chance’ Brazil’s Government Can Waive Oi Debt, Minister Says
Brazil’s government can’t waive Oi SA’s debt with a local regulator and state-run banks, the communications minister said, denying the phone carrier a lifeline that would have helped it pull out of the biggest bankruptcy in the country’s history. “The govt can’t let go of resources, they are public resources, debt with the public administration,” Science and Technology Minister Gilberto Kassab, who also oversees communications, said Sunday in an interview in Barcelona, Spain.
Russians march to remember slain opposition leader Nemtsov
People gather together prior a march in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was killed two years ago, in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017. Several thousand people held a march in Moscow in memory of the Russian opposition leader to mark the second anniversary of his killing.
Nordic Tech `Miracle’ Delivers 30% Returns for $1 Billion Fund
Ignoring its global mandate to invest in Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc. is delivering top returns for this technology fund. The Swedbank Robur Ny Teknik fund just focuses on small, “innovative” companies in Scandinavia with a heavy concentration in medical technology.
Three Perfectly Legit Alibis For Avoiding Last-Minute Meetings
A coworker sends you an email asking if you’re available for a 2:30 p.m. meeting, and your first thought is: How am I going to get out of this? You haven’t blocked out that time on your calendar, because technically you aren’t already committed to something else. However, you have a list of things planned for the afternoon, and no, a surprise meeting isn’t on it.
Is the Ivanka Trump brand boycott anti-feminist?
Ivanka Trump shouldn’t be punished for her father’s actions, say some critics of the movement to boycott her products. Sophia Harris has worked as a CBC video journalist across the country, covering everything from the start of the annual lobster fishery in Yarmouth, N.S., to potash prices in Saskatchewan.
EU lawmakers, in unusual move, pull the plug on racist talk
In this Feb. 25, 2015, file photo, members of the European Parliament attend a plenary session at the European Parliament in Brussels. In a world of rising populism and fake news, the European Parliament is taking unusual steps to sweep clean hate speech in its own house.
Key developments in Kim’s assassination investigation
A Malaysian police officer guards the gate of the National Forensic Institute at Kuala Lumpur Hospital in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017. Malaysian police ordered a sweep of Kuala Lumpur airport for toxic chemicals and other hazardous substances following the killing of Kim Jong Nam.
Far from Carnival street fests, glitzy Rio Ball for elite
A guest in a costume poses for the photo as she enjoys a traditional Carnival ball at the Copacabana Palace hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017. In stark contrast to the hundreds of hard-charging street parties across Rio that are open to anyone, the “Baile do Copa” bills itself as a fairytale event where the country’s elite can see and be seen in a hotel known for both opulence and a lengthy tradition of welcoming world leaders and stars.
WLAD simulcast seeks to prop up AM radio
From left, Irv Goldstein, president and CEO of Berkshire Broadcasting, Jillian Mauro, WLAD news director, Bart Busterna, program director and Dave Rinelli, seated, morning host. Photo Tuesday, February 21, 2017.