In its quest to be the largest freight broker in the world, the company is looking ahead to autonomous driving.
Self-driving trucks are increasingly becoming a reality. Yesterday, Daimler announced that one of its autonomous buses completed a 12.4 mile route involving turns, tunnels, and a series of stops. Its CityPilot is based on the same driverless trucks that drove 1,200 miles across four countries earlier this year.
This futurist explains why her generation isn’t just next in line for retiring Baby Boomers’ jobs but uniquely poised to take them.
I got into Northwestern University despite far-from-perfect SAT scores and missing the valedictorian spot by one grade. If I were a millennial, I would have had much longer odds. Born in 1976, I’m a late Generation X-er and have had less competition for everything pretty much all my life.
The e-marketplace has a splashy new home that aims to open people’s eyes to more inventive—and environmentally friendly—design.
Etsy started out in 2005 as a small online marketplace for makers and DIYers, but the company has turned into an e-commerce behemoth that’s enabled housewives to knit their way to millions. Along the way, the $3.5 billion company has aggressively tried to do business the right way by hiring a diverse workforce, building community, and offering generous employee perks that go beyond a free lunch.
The 737-sized Aquila is meant to fly on solar power at altitudes of 60,000 feet or more and deliver wireless Internet for three months at a time.
At dawn on June 28, one future vision of mobile broadband Internet connectivity for as many as 1.6 billion people took to the sky for the first time.
The comfort shoe company has found a way to jump on fashion trends while staying true to its loyal, lifelong customers.
“It happens every several years,” says David Kahan, CEO of Birkenstock USA, the American division of the German company. “The planets line up and Birkenstocks become fashionable again.”
Say goodbye to Skype calls. Here are four ways VR technology is already shaping up to change the future of work.
The scene: An empty conference room, five years from now. You sit down at the table with your tablet and put on a pair of lightweight glasses. Suddenly the room comes to life. To your left, you see your colleague Jessica, who’s joining from New York. To the right, the company CEO, Beth, who’s currently in Atlanta. Across the table from you is Hassan, who’s joining from his home office in London.
Advanced sequencing technologies are the centerpiece of an ambitious project to identify 70,000 fallen soldiers by 2020.
“In Vietnam, religious traditions hold that the ghosts of the dead cannot rest without a proper burial in a place appropriate to the family,” explains William Frasure, a professor of government at Connecticut College who has both lived and worked in the country. And yet, tombstones throughout the country still bear little else than the words “liet sy—chua diet ten,” which translates to “martyr—name unknown.”
Couture gets (even more) competitive: Fashion labels want to win your style support at the Rio Games.
The strength, the majesty, the glory of the Olympic Games. Even the most hardened of cynics melt at the spectacle. And the fashion industry is no exception.
Pitching free ideas may seem like the cost of doing business nowadays, but there are better ways to land coveted projects.
Unpaid pitching: a controversial topic in the creative industry. For some, unpaid pitching is simply part of the business — a necessary evil to win new clients and projects. For others, it’s seen as an exploitative practice, and the movement against it has gained significant momentum in the industry.
Meet Magento, the biggest e-commerce company you’ve never heard of and the CEO who navigated its sale.
Magento is the archetype of the company whose products you use but you’ve never heard of: Their open-source platform is used by tens of thousands of e-commerce sites and corporate clients around the world, ranging from the biggest of the big box stores to corporate titans like Nike to small mom-and-pop retail stores. Magento works quietly in the background, making sure that when you order a product, the workflow of finding it in the warehouse and shipping it to you begins. Over $50 billion in gross merchandise sales goes through Magento’s platforms each year, the company says.
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