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Sunday, July 2, 2017

That time Amazon had a social network years before Facebook

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It may seem like Amazon is suddenly hungry to take over the world, but the company has been focused on dominating the internet for a very long time, a fact we were recently reminded of via a profile on early social networking site PlanetAll.  If you’ve never heard of PlanetAll, that’s because it’s one of the few social networks born in the ’90s that came long before Facebook.  SEE ALSO: Amazon’s Whole Foods deal pretty much sunk Blue Apron’s IPO A couple of years after PlanetAll launched with a.  show all text
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@mashable: That time Amazon almost had Facebook years before Facebook.
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We’re Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, MIT digital researchers and co-authors of Machine, Platform, Crowd. Ask us anything! : IAmA

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Erik Brynjolfsson directs MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy. He teaches economics of information and the Analytics Lab and studies the effects of information technologies on business strategy, productivity and performance, digital commerce, and intangible assets. Brynjolfsson was among the first researchers to measure productivity contributions of IT. Andrew McAfee is a principal research scientist at MIT and co-founder of its Initiative on the Digital Economy, studying how digital techno.  show all text
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3D printers will change manufacturing

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MANUFACTURING advances often take time to catch on. Only later does their real significance become apparent. The flying shuttle, invented in 1733 by John Kay, a British weaver, allowed the production of wider pieces of cloth.
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@EURACC: Automation is spreading to every production line in every country, and 3D printing is part of that trend econ.st/2t50o4E
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@erikbryn: Automation is spreading to every production line in every country, and 3D printing is part of that trend econ.st/2t50o4E
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@TheEconomist: Automation is spreading to every production line in every country, and 3D printing is part of that trend econ.st/2t50o4E
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Proxy Access: Highlights of the 2017 Proxy Season

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Posted by Marc S. Gerber, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, on Saturday, July 1, 2017 Editor’s Note: Marc S. Gerber is a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. This post is based on a Skadden publication by Mr. Gerber. As we approach the end of the 2017 proxy season, the third since the New York City comptroller launched the Boardroom Accountability Project to enact proxy access across the U.S. market, proxy access has begun to transition from its “teenage growth spurt” t..  show all text
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@Financialnewswk: Proxy Access: Highlights of the 2017 #Proxy Season http://bit.ly/2ubHqcp; #CorpGov
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@WholeBoardDev: "The main parameters of proxy access bylaws are now well-established" http://bit.ly/2ubHqcp; #corpgov
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