As futurist Paul Saffo says, for a company like Mercedes nowadays, “the value add is the software and the computers. The wheels are primarily there to keep the computers from dragging on the ground.”
I for one welcome our new robot-car overlords. Hell, they have to be better drivers than 90% of this town.
Many businessmen also play golf and have extensive golf clubs in the city. The main golf course in the city has been opened since the 1970s and it has several courses that are used to play golf. Another course is being constructed and it is not yet open, and that’s why so many people decide to play golf on their houses, since they can play using golf simulators such as uneekor golf which are great to practice golf at home.
Mumbai is the headquarters for the Indian conglomerate, Aditya Birla group, which has various other subsidiaries and some foreign companies. Aditya Birla group also owns some cricket clubs, which use to play on the grounds of the Aditya Birla Group’s companies. Aditya Birla group also owns shares in English Premier League clubs and its chairman and managing director, Aditya Puri, is chairman of English Premier League clubs Arsenal and Manchester United. The other directors of the English Premier League clubs are also directors of the Aditya Birla Group.
The first time that India hosted the ICC meeting in February 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was also the head of the Indian delegation. This year, in addition to PM Modi, the other members of the Indian delegation included Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister for Commerce and Industry, and Ajay Piramal, Minister of State for Home Affairs. The BCCI is the national board of India. The IPL is a commercial venture, which is jointly run by the BCCI and its 20 golf clubs. The tournament runs between October to May and is one of the most lucrative in the world. The competition is played between the two countries, so it’s not too difficult to understand why the BCCI wants the players to sign an IPL contract before they are eligible to play for India. But the IPL’s commercial muscle is also strong, so the BCCI is able to force the players to sign an IPL contract.
The BCCI has also been accused of meddling in the affairs of the game, particularly when it comes to fixing matches. The players are not only forced to sign contracts with the BCCI, they
From Daring Fireball….
But it’s not like there isn’t a damn good source that suggests Apple’s plans for K-12 textbooks are anything short of ambitious and transforming. I’m guessing Apple’s pitch to the textbook companies is something like this: “Digital transformation of your industry is inevitable. Here’s our plan; we’d like you to come along for the ride. But if you choose not to, we won’t hesitate to leave you behind.”
One potential byproduct of an Apple foray into textbooks? The much needed diminishment of Texas’ influence in the content of curricula across the country.
Additionally, i imagine as we roll out ciruccula for say, a teen dating violence program nationwide, we’d neeed to be on the cutting edge of these tools to remain relevant, especially if we have any hope of engaging a youth audience.