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Amazon's November Strategy: Prices for Same Products Vary from Day to Day

In early November, Amazon repriced 55 percent of its best-selling office/school products and 45 percent of its best-selling toys/games from one day to the next.

Amber Road Achieves ISO 9001:2008 Recertification

Amber Road, a provider of global trade management (GTM) software, has achieved ISO 9001:2008 recertification for its proprietary process for collecting, translating, interpreting and updating country-specific trade regulations.

Technology Companies Speed Ahead of Automakers in Developing Driverless Cars

In the race to put autonomous vehicles on read roads, technology companies may overtake automakers. According to a report from IHS Automotive, companies like Google and others are currently working toward solutions in the autonomous vehicle space and Google is in the lead. IHS Automotive estimates the technology company has invested nearly $60m so far in autonomous vehicle research and development, at a run rate of nearly $30m per year.

Integrated Business Planning: The Missing Piece of the Puzzle

The point of running a business is to make a profit. So it seems odd that, when companies move to integrate their operations, they so often leave finance out of the picture.

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Amazon, Google Intensely Focused on Robotics, But Their Strategies Differ

With robots like BigDog and the Terminator-like Atlas, Google's robotics efforts have been a smash success - if you measure by YouTube views and buzz. Amazon's work has been more behind scenes (apart from the widely discussed plans for delivery drones). But Amazon's energies in robotics have also had a more immediate payoff than Google's "moonshots." The differing philosophies illustrate how Amazon and Google have taken starkly different paths so far in the race to automate the physical world.

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Digitally-savvy Millennials Said Likely to Shop in Brick-and-Mortar Stores on Thanksgiving

Millennials may be digital natives, but for all their supposed reliance on mobile devices, this group is more likely to shop on Thanksgiving Day and do so in stores, according to a new survey by location-based mobile platform Retale.

Shale Resins Stimulating Development, Employment Increases in Plastics Industry

Shale-advantaged resins are affecting job growth in the plastics industry in a big way, according to Martha Moore, senior director, Policy Analysis and Economics, for the American Chemistry Council.

As Driver-less Cars Arrive, Will Driver's License Rite of Passage Become as Obsolete as Model 'T'?

In the not-so-far-off future, teens won't bother getting driver's licenses, consumers will shun owning their own cars, and taxis will be replaced by "taxibots."

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Gender Inequality Costs Economy Trillions, Study Claims

Gender inequality is not only a pressing moral and social issue but also a critical economic challenge. If women - who account for half the world's working-age population - do not achieve their full economic potential, the global economy will suffer.

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Drought-weary California Businesses, Consumers Await Debut of Desalination Plant

Four years into California's historic drought, a $1bn desalination plant is being built by Poseidon Water. The Carlsbad Desalination Project, 12 years in the making, will convert up to 56 million gallons of seawater daily into drinking water for San Diego County. It's the state's first major desalination plant and it could be an answer to the drought, which plagues much of the Western US.

African Americans Urged to Spend More in Black-owned Businesses

Blacks spend less money in black-owned businesses than other racial and ethnic groups spend in businesses owned by members of their groups, including Hispanics and Asians.

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Terrorist Attacks, Like Those in Paris, Said Not to Have Lasting Negative Impact on Economy

For some people, even to discuss the impact on an economy, let alone financial markets, of a tragedy such as the Paris attacks is poor taste. But one of the aims of terrorists is to cause economic and financial damage; hence the attacks on Wall Street on 9/11 or on tourists in Tunisia earlier this year. So the issue is worth considering.

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