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Transforming your local supermarket into the Garden of Eden

Supermarkets serve a function — to display and organize products for customers to purchase. Beyond the occasional display, very few ever aspire to be anything more than that — something NL Architects wants to change.The Amsterdam-based architects have ... [Published SmartPlanet - 7 mins ago]

Entities: Architect, Sanya (China), Cheap, Customer Experience

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 23 mins ago - 1 reports

Researchers take step towards Alzheimer's drug

Tangled web. Protein structures like this one tangle and cluster in Alzheimer's, ultimately destroying neurons.Researchers at the University of Cambridge say they have figured out what triggers the runaway formation of proteins associated with neurological ... [Published SmartPlanet - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Alzheimer's Disease, Protein, Drugs

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 40 mins ago - 1 reports

YouGov Plc

UK loosens business belt, spends Â£1.2bn more on expenses

Businesses in the U.K. spent £1.2 billion more on expenses in 2012 than in 2011.Concur, a provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions, released a new survey which suggests that despite economic woes, businesses are changing their attitudes ... [Published SmartPlanet - 1 hour ago]

Entities: United Kingdom, David Vine, Expense Management, YouGov Plc, one percent

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 58 mins ago - 1 reports

LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA

Louis Vuitton losing luxury luster

Fading. Louis Vuitton's brand value plunged 12 percent to a mere $22.7 billion. Above, a little LV corner shop in Yekaterinburg, Russia.–As the old song might have it: Louie, Louie, oh baby, brands come and go.It’s not quite that bad for Louis Vuitton, ... [Published SmartPlanet - 1 hour ago]

Entities: LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA, Prada SpA, Millward Brown, Luxury, Gucci Group

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Tumblr Inc

Yahoo CEO promises not to screw up Tumblr

Yahoo announced today it has agreed to buy microblogging site Tumblr in a $1.1 billion all-cash deal that will bring in a much younger audience and up the tech giant’s cool quotient.Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s main message to Tumblr’s 300 million monthly ... [Published SmartPlanet - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Tumblr Inc, Yahoo! Inc, Marissa Mayer

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

University College London

Study: practice doesn't make perfect

A player without aptitude may never be able to best a 'natural,' according to the findings of new research into learningThe old adage that “practice makes perfect” hasn’t held up to scientific scrutiny. Some people are really just naturals who have the ... [Published SmartPlanet - 10 hours ago]

Entities: University College London, Michigan State University, Naturalization

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

Google Inc

6 traits of the best workplace on earth

How do you create the best workplace on earth?Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones ponder that question in the latest issue of Harvard Business Review, summing up their discussions with hundreds of executives.When it comes to examples of workplace utopia, what ... [Published SmartPlanet - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Gareth Jones, Entrepreneur, Google Inc

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

Dutch-engineered Sand Engine controls floods naturally

The Netherlands is augmenting its world class system of dikes and sea gates with technology that mimics natural systems and their ability to hold back the sea.If all goes according to plan, a crescent-shaped mound of sand along their south-central coast ... [Published SmartPlanet - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Erosion, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

Why falling U.S. college enrollment is good news

Here’s a bit of good news: fewer people in the United States are going to college!Huh?Since 2010, enrollment in colleges and universities in the U.S. have steadily declined. During that time, enrollment saw its biggest dip this spring, falling 2.3 percent ... [Published SmartPlanet - 17 hours ago]

Entities: United States, Clearinghouse, Declination

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

Laughing, tweeting and eating: the soft power of Shaquille O'Neal

When Amy Jo Martin started Digital Royalty, her social media marketing company, in 2009, she had one goal: take the “soft power” influence of professional star athletes — their unshakable hold on their fans’ emotions — and turn it into hard cash. Over ... [Published SmartPlanet - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Shaquille O'Neal, Twitter, Social Media

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

Survey finds widespread global business corruption

A new survey from Ernst & Young provides disturbing insight into business corruption around the world.The survey asked fraud-related questions to 3,000 people in various corporate positions — from board members and corporate executive to managers and ... [Published SmartPlanet - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Corruption, Unethical, Ernst & Young

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

Wi-Fi network breaks speed record

A new Wi-Fi network is making even the fastest commercial Wi-Fi networks seem sluggish by comparison.Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany set the new record: 40 GB per second over 0.6 miles. As Discover points out, that’s like downloading ... [Published SmartPlanet - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Wi-Fi, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fiber optic cable

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