University of the Pacific Welcomes Pepsi Snackbot to Campus
It’s the start of a new semester and the newest freshman at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA is Pepsi’s new Snackbot. Developed…
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Amazon Reports Increased Streaming of NFL Games
MediaPost recently published this article reporting that Amazon’s viewership of live-streamed Thursday night NFL games is up 22% to 14.7M viewers so far this season. For…
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Cannabis Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola is looking at getting into the cannabis-infused drink business. You won’t be able to get high off the drink since it uses a non-psychoactive…
Amazon Backing Off Hospital Sales
Amazon is a juggernaut that seems to enter one market after the next. Most of these ventures are successful for the firm but not all…
Channel Optimization with Big Data
Continuing the theme of our last post, this article on ZDNet discusses the way UPS uses big data to solve business problems. In their case,…
UPS Adds Holiday Delivery Surcharge
According to this NPR article, UPS is going to add a surcharge to packages delivered around Black Friday and Christmas. UPS says they’re implementing the…
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What’s Now? Chapter 11 – Drones deliver medicine in Rwanda
Silicon Valley startup Zipline is delivering blood and emergency medicine to rural areas of Rwanda. You can learn more about Zipline in the YouTube video…