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Business / Companies : The Genius of Google
One of the advantages of being a behemoth like Google is that every business decision one takes can be easily shrugged off as brand-building and marketing without being scrutinized for further motives. Take for example its latest free mobile application—‘Ingress’. Packaged as an alternate reality game, players are required to go outside into the real world to accomplish tasks. ‘Ingress’, however, is merely the latest step in a series that helped Google build its empire. As far-fetched as it may sound, the game is being used to take on Nokia’s recently announced turn-by-turn navigation for pedestrians. The game’s storyline and rules are plucked straight from the realm of science fiction, where players collect virtual energy at different locations with their smartphones and then spend that at other places ( known as portals) to unlock various missions. It isn’t too big of a stretch when one considers Google’s past endeavors.
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Pole has a master’s degree in statistics and another in economics, and has been obsessed with the intersection of data and human behavior most of his life. His parents were teachers in North Dakota, and while other kids were going to 4-H, Pole was doing algebra and writing computer programs. “The stereotype of a math nerd is true,” he told me when I spoke with him last year. “I kind of like going out and evangelizing analytics.” As the marketers explained to Pole — and as Pole later explained to me, back when we were still speaking and before Target told him to stop — new parents are a retailer’s holy grail. Most shoppers don’t buy everything they need at one store. There are, however, some brief periods in a person’s life when old routines fall apart and buying habits are suddenly in flux. “We knew that if we could identify them in their second trimester, there’s a good chance we could capture them for years,” Pole told me. Take backing your car out of the driveway. “No,” she said.
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Gonski's $5 billion School Fee
All eyes on Gillard and Gonski Reports of rebel Labor MPs' plans to spill the PM, and Gonski's $5 billion cost, as online political editor Tim Lester runs over the day's political news. P Federal government funding for every student regardless of the income of their parents or the wealth of their school is now part of a ''citizenship entitlement'', with the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, yesterday in effect declaring it part of a new Australian compact. But while Ms Gillard committed her government to fund all schools regardless of wealth or need, she refused to commit the money that the long-running review of school funding says is needed to restore Australia's ailing education system to health. Ticking all the boxes ... But Ms Gillard repeatedly refused to commit to the funding. Advertisement Instead, another round of consultations and working parties will be established with stakeholders including state education ministers. Yes No
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Nadal or Djokovic? Predicting the winner of the US Open
9 September 2013Last updated at 10:03 ET By Kim Gittleson BBC reporter, Flushing Meadows, New York Who will win this year's US Open tennis championship - Novak Djokovic or Rafael Nadal? Most pundits will have an opinion on who will triumph in this year's US Open men's final - Rafael Nadal or Novak Djokovic - but the best insights into who will be crowned champion will come from the same technology that has helped cities to lower crime rates and plan for extreme weather. Deep in the bowels of Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York, beats the data heart of the 2013 US Open. In a bland room accessed through an unmarked door, more than 60 laptops are piled high, arranged like a command control centre for a mission to the moon. This room is known as "scoring central", according to US Open officials. It's where data is pushed to scoreboards on Louis Armstrong Court - the second largest US Open tennis court - or to TV screens across the globe. 'Unusual statistics' Djokovic v Nadal
Don’t Mention The Class War
Parents have plenty to study in the Gonski report — including data that shows expensive schooling isn't producing rich results for the students, or the country. Let's start with a simple statement with which everyone can agree: education is the key to this country's future. Now, a statement with which large numbers of people will disagree vehemently: private schools are making Australia dumber. Please discuss. But, before you do, consider this fascinating conundrum. Over the past decade or so, there has been a significant drift of students away from government schools. That latter point was one stressed by Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Feb. 20 at her press conference, held to accompany the release of the so-called Gonski report on school-funding reform. But of the correlation between that decline and the rise of non-government schooling, she said not a word. This, of course, is hardly surprising, in political terms. Nous Group Report "Schooling Challenges & Opportunities",August 2011
To the Young Women and Men of Delhi: Thinking about Rape from India Gate
Dear young women and men of Delhi, Thank you for the courage and the honour you have brought to Rajpath, the most dishonorable street in our city. You changed Delhi yesterday, and you are changing it today. Your presence, of all twelve thousand of you, yesterday, on Rajpath, that street that climbs down from the presidential palace on Raisina Hill to India Gate, getting soiled by the excreta of the tanks and missiles on Republic Day each year, was for me a kind of purificatory ritual. It made a claim to the central vista of ‘Lutyen’s Delhi’ as a space for democratic assertion in contravention of the completely draconian, elitist and undemocratic prohibitory orders that make the heart of this republic, a zone of the death, not the life and sustenance, of democracy. From now onwards, consider the heart of Delhi to be a space that belongs, first of all, to its citizens. But do not let this stop you, or distract you. Thank you for doing this in the name of an anonymous 23 year old woman.
Underinsurance in Australian Life Insurance
Underinsurance in the Australian Life insurance industry is becoming a growing concern. For individuals having adequate Life Insurance and Income Protection Insurance is one of the most important parts of a financial plan. Life Insurance and Income Protection are slowly being recognised for their importance for financial certainty in the event one suffers a sudden and unexpected illness, injury or premature death. Recent findings by TNS Research suggest that: • less than 5 percent of Australians have adequate Life Insurance Cover • there are over 5 million families within Australia than have dependent children • Australia’s insurance gap is over $1.4 billion Other reasons include the perception government benefits will provide adequate support, that the cost of insurance is too expensive when in reality the cost of life insurance in some cases can be lower than health, home and car insurance and that insurance companies will not pay out in the event of a claim.
