7 insights on how tech and entrepreneurship are shaping the cannabis industry
The cannabis business is emerging as a permanent fixture in society. Recreational use is legal or becoming legalized in nearby states like New Jersey and Delaware with equity central to conversations...
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NFTs emerged during the pandemic as a new way to trade everything from art to NBA highlights to virtual horses. Take a closer look at how they actually work, and you’ll find the current boom is being...
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A proponent of in-person collaboration, Aramark’s Stephen Mallozzi had to quickly pivot in his approach to workshopping ideas with colleagues when the pandemic hit. While digital tools are available to...
View ArticleThe local tech economy is growing. How can it better include Black...
Philadelphia is lauded for its tech economy that’s growing even in the pandemic, as well as its increasing ability to attract technologists to build here. But for many of the city’s existing residents,...
View ArticleWatch: Using machine learning to optimize your workflow
Artificial intelligence continues to emerge as a solution for making business more efficient. But how can it improve the work of institutions not often thought of as tech-forward? During the...
View ArticleHow to implement DEI policies that will stick? Buy-in and proactivity
A year ago, after George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police, many companies took the time amid a worldwide racial justice movement to assess the inter-workings of their own race and diversity...
View ArticleWatch: ‘Zombie code,’ or how a 60-year-old programming language can help...
AutoCAD is drafting and design software used to create everything from buildings to households items. But what if its connection to the 1960-founded LISP programming language could help engineers solve...
View ArticleWatch: How URBN’s retail app update brought together product and engineering
When you’re a huge company with many moving parts, like Navy Yard-based URBN, every efficiency you can squeeze out equals literal thousands in savings. That’s the thinking behind a recent move to...
View ArticleWatch: How Vanguard is using machine learning for personalized financial advice
When it comes to planning your financial future, Valley Forge-based Vanguard is chock-full of investing pros to guide you along the way. But of the company’s more than 17,000 employees, about half of...
View ArticleWatch: Crossbeam software engineers explain their ‘bet’ on Clojure
While you might not have heard of functional programing language Clojure, Center City-based partner ecosystem platform Crossbeam’s engineers call it the company’s “secret sauce.” Crossbeam Engineering...
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