Industry Roundup for Friday, 2-16-2018
In this week’s Industry Roundup we take a peek into brilliant business ideas, Amazon and Healthcare, Machine Learning, and Technology in the HR field.
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When Pain Points Turn into a Brilliant Business Ideas
Great business startups aren’t created in a vacuum. They start when that bright light goes off in your brain and compels you to look deeper into its core. This article talks about a few common sources of startup ideas.
Amazon Taking a Small Step Into a Large Health Industry Journey
Amazon is making its way into the basic medical supplies industry, readying itself as a go-to source for things like bandages, latex gloves and sutures, according to this article. Can Amazon become the answer to the ever-troubling issues surrounding big hospital distribution systems?
How Machines Actually Learn
You have to love the convenience and ease of plopping a sentence, paragraph, or even a long document into Google translate and watching as translated words spill onto your screen. How does a computer learn to do this? Read on…
The Reshaping of the HR Landscape through Technology
As more and more data is collected, will future organizations use this data to analyze candidates? Digital footprints offer employers a wide-eyed view into a candidate’s character, credibility, and reliability. This article explains how your digital footprint could be the defining element in many circumstances.