Posts Tagged:#wakeupimagine

Facebook rebrands as Meta.

“Right now, our brand is so tightly linked to one product that it can’t possibly represent everything that we’re doing today, let alone in the future,” Zuckerberg said. “Over time, I hope that we are seen as a metaverse company, and I want to anchor our work and identity on what we’re building toward.” #wakeupimagine #Facebook #metaverse #markzuckerberg #future #brand

Pain in the Supply Chain.

One thing people don’t really care about or understand is that #logistics is a huge part of #customerexperience, which is a huge part of today’s #marketing. #wakeupimagine #retail #ecommerce #marketoon

Dammit, Jim. It’s Space man.

Star Trek’s Captain Kirk is rocketing into space this month — boldly going where no other sci-fi actors have gone before. The original space cowboy heads there with Amazon and BLUE ORIGIN. So cool. #wakeupimagine #StarTrek https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/captain-kirk-blue-origin-1.6198720

Amazon Astro. Woof. Woof.

What do you get when you mix Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant with an Echo Show tablet, give it a hefty dose of artificial intelligence, integrate it all with Ring’s home security system, and let it roll around your home autonomously? Oh ya and Pepper (see what I did there) it with a little Jetson’s naming … and you get ASTRO. Astro…

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Netflix acquires a Golden Ticket.

Netflix, Disney+, and AppleTV+ seem to be delivering golden tickets to tasty tongue titillating content all around these days. The amount of incredible programming is mind-boggling. #wakeupimagine Apple The Walt Disney Company The Roald Dahl Story Company (RDSC) and Netflix are joining forces to bring some of the world’s most loved stories to current and future fans in…

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Bearbnb on Airbnb.

Priceless!! – The Walt Disney Company and Airbnb are recreating Winnie-the-Pooh’s home as a “Bearbnb” as part of 95th anniversary celebrations of the beloved character. The “Bearbnb” is situated in Ashdown Forest, England, the inspiration for author A.A. Milne’s “Hundred Acre Wood.” It was designed by Disney-appointed Winnie the Pooh illustrator, Kim Raymond, who has been drawing the iconic bear for over…

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The Metaverse keeps staking new ground.

Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook reported earnings this past week and they’re all making lots of money. And they have another thing in common … all have a stake in something called the “metaverse.” If you’re a sci-fi junky like me you first read about it in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash and then got further dazzled by Ernest Cline’s…

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Deep Genomic’s artificial intelligence scans the humane genome.

Toronto-based Deep Genomics has raised a US$180-million Series C round led by SoftBank Group Corp., marking the second Canadian investment from the Japanese conglomerate’s Vision Fund 2 after Clearco earlier this month.  It’s a sign, founder and CEO Brendan Frey said, that deep-pocketed investors are on board with a “new era” of biotech, where artificial intelligence—not just chemists—can uncover breakthrough drugs.   Deep Genomics’…

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Zero Party Data is here to stay.

As consumers, we all now expect personalized experiences. Yet we also grate at attempts by marketers to collect personal data about them to deliver these personalized experiences. That’s a paradox that marketers increasingly have to navigate. AND … there’s a fine line between cool and creepy, between personalization and stalking – we’ve all felt it! One Deloitte study reported that…

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The Minting of an NFT Unicorn.

Andreessen Horowitz is placing a big bet on #NFTs, leading a huge $100 million funding round for the largest of the #NFT trading marketplaces, OpenSea. With the round, OpenSea, founded in 2017, has a valuation of $1.5 billion. #wakeupimagine #NFTunicorn https://www.fastcompany.com/90656775/andreessen-horowitz-nft-opensea-100-million-funding

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