Canada’s Loblaw supermarkets is pre-ordering 25 Tesla electric trucks by placing a $5000 downpayment on each. They will also convert all of their fleet of 350 trucks to Tesla electric trucks by 2030. Tesla will not complete their first trucks until 2019. Platooning will be revolutionary in cost with energy efficiency and fewer jobs In …
There are some videos of business advice and motivation from Elon Musk and a transcript of a commencement speech Elon gave. 1. If you want to start a company, you need to work super hard. So what is super hard mean? 7 days a week for 80-100 hours a week for a year. This is …
General Electric cut its dividend in half and is restructuring to focus primarily on three units. Industrial analyst Brian Langenberg said on CNBC’s Squawk Box – To really turn this company around operationally and culturally, it’s going to take CEO John Flannery — if he does it right — five years.” For years the company …
Salesforce and Google have struck a broad partnership, that pairs their corporate software and cloud-computing services. The new deal ties key, complementary services in marketing analytics and cloud-computing. Salesforce clients that don’t currently use G-Suite, Google’s package of workplace software, will get the offerings free for one year. The integration of Google Analytics with Salesforce …
In 2017, social/casual gaming global revenue will surpass traditional gaming according to PWc and continue to accelerate away at a much higher growth rate for the remainder of the forecast period. Social/casual gaming will surge at 11.9% CAGR and is expected to reach US$74.3bn by 2021. Total video games revenue in mainland China reached US$15.4 …
The company LUNATIX was created by the eight participants of SpaceTech 2016. The SpaceTech Master Programme of the Technical University of Graz, Austria, is aimed at international, mid-career professionals seeking expertise in space systems and business engineering. There is a 36 page plan presented at SpaceTech 2016. Lunatix wants to be the creative leader in …
Walmart had inadequate response to Amazon.com for years but the $3 billion acquisition of jet.com and overhaul of its marketplace last year, and better integration of its stores with its digital business has been good. The result was a 60% growth in U.S. e-commerce sales at its namesake chain last quarter. Walmart says domestic e-commerce …
Amazon is experimenting with a new delivery service intended to make more products available for free two-day delivery and relieve overcrowding in its warehouses which will push the online retailer deeper into functions handled by longtime partners UPS and Fedex. The service began two years ago in India, and Amazon has been slowly marketing it …
OCBC Bank, HSBC and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), together with the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), has become the “first consortium” in South East Asia to complete a proof of concept for a know your customer (KYC) blockchain. The parties say the development “raises the possibility” of using blockchain to make KYC “more efficient …
Here are the known highlights of a proposed US tax plan which would still have to get passed and enacted via the US legislative system. * experts put the tax cuts in the range of $5 trillion over the next 10 years. The net cost to the federal debt would be far less — probably …
Gen-Xers and Millennials are the first generations in history born to the video gaming age. And they’ve been ‘gamified’ from birth, with 2.6 billion people playing video games worldwide, and it is generally accepted by industry pros that Americans alone spend 50 million hours a day gaming. According to a Newzoo market intelligence report, the …