From Our Archive: Wearable Computing, Long Before Google Glass
Written by MIT Technology ReviewThe following View from the Marketplace was provided by SAP, the sponsor of our Big Data Gets Personal Business Report.
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Francesca's Numbers Give Pause - Barrons.com
Written by Barron's Most Emailed TodayFrancesca's Collections stores may be small, but as a specialty-retailing success story, the chain's parent, Francesca's Holdings [1] (ticker: FRAN), is huge. Revenue at the 283-store chain, which sells jewelry, apparel, accessories, and housewares, has grown at a 57% annual clip over the past three years, to $204 million in fiscal 2012, ended in
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Written by Reuters: Company NewsGlass apps will require people to create new content filters. Maybe that’s just a losing battle.
Would you want your daily horoscope beamed to your right eye? That’s the vision of the future I saw when I tried out the fashion magazine Elle’s app for Google Glass yesterday, one of several apps...
By the Casey Research Energy Team
Like the United States, the European Union relies heavily on Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) for its uranium, as shown in the chart below:
Russia is projected to produce 64 million pounds per year by 2020. The majority – 40 million pounds – will come from Russia itself, and the remainder fro
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The Koch Brothers seem to be in the middle of a strategy shift. Previously the billionaire oil barons who made their money the old fashioned way (they inherited it) used various think tanks like the Cato Institute and the Reason Foundation to launder their deregulation and tax cut agenda. Now the Kochs, after advancing astroturfing groups like Free...