FinTech & Design Reads Issue 6
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Launch of the African Economic Outlook 2014 Media Advisory: Launch of the African Economic Outlook 2014 Monday…
An Introduction to Data-Driven Decisions for Managers Who Don’t Like Math Not a week goes by without us publishing something here at HBR about the value of data in business. Big data, small data, internal, external, experimental, observational — everywhere we look,…
The leaked New York Times innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age There are few things that can galvanize the news world’s attention like a change in leadership atop The New York Times. Jill Abramson’s ouster yesterday afternoon probably reduced…
What Television Will Look Like in 2025, According to Netflix In the future, Netflix will know exactly what you want to watch, even before you do. You won’t have to spend all that time browsing through endless lists of shows…
Wearable tech can be implanted in brains, thanks to new power technique New wireless charging technique developed at Stanford University could enable embeddable sensors, pacemakers and nerve stimulators A breakthrough in wireless technology could allow a new wave of…
Why Do Big Companies Do Hackathons? When you’re in a big, Fortune 500 company, collaborating with different departments–especially with IT–can be hard if not impossible. But as corporations start to embrace the idea of…
Team Collaboration And Closing Efficiency Gaps In Responsive Design Responsive design ushers in complexities that require a more involved design and implementation process. Because of this, the effort has piled up on the front end.
Coding schools are toning down their rosy job script Learn to code. Get a job. Then what? Dozens of coding “boot camps” have popped up from New York and San Francisco to Omaha and Albuquerque in the past two years. Driven by a robust hiring market for…
APIs.io and APIs.json Launched at Gluecon to Make API Discoverability More Like Search A new API Discoverability search engine and a robots.txt type-format have been launched today at Gluecon. As API deployment continues to grow exponentially, API providers face increasing challeneges…
The Next Wave of Innovation in Capital Markets Technology Post financial crisis, most banks have been focusing on survival rather than innovation. That’s changing, however, as more technology startups are entering the financial services scene.
Why Websites Still Can’t Predict Exactly What You Want It should be a golden age for personalization online, and the predictive algorithms that drive it. Data scientists, supported by the stunning growth in the gathering and processing of so-called…
Is It Better to Rent or Buy? The choice between buying a home and renting one is among the biggest financial decisions that many adults make. But the costs of buying are more varied and complicated than for renting, making it hard to tell which is a better deal. To help you answer this question, our calculator takes the most important costs associated with buying a house and computes the equivalent monthly rent.
Our HTML5 Web App Flopped, So We Went Native (And Haven’t Looked Back) Our first attempt at mobile was born out of a hackathon. Our team here at TheLadders had built a small app for job recruiters, turning to PhoneGap to craft something truly cross-platform. Not only…
4 Myths About Apple Design, From An Ex-Apple Designer Apple is synonymous with upper echelon design, but very little is known about the company’s design process. Most of Apple’s own employees aren’t allowed inside Apple’s fabled…