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Walmart, Humana talk tie-up

Category : General · No Comments Mar 30th, 2018

Walmart is in talks with health insurer Humana for a closer partnership to provide health care to consumers at home and prevent illness, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Health-care spending accounted for about 18 percent of the U.S. economy last year, and continues to surge with an aging population, pricey medications, and a complex regime of reimbursements and middlemen. Companies have been trying to address some of the market’s inefficiencies by forging alliances or getting bigger: Cigna Corp. is acquiring Express Scripts Holding Co. for $54 billion, and CVS Health Corp. is buying Aetna Inc. for $68 billion.

Walmart and Humana have explored a wide range of options including a merger, though an outright combination isn’t likely at this point, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing private information. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Walmart was in early talks to acquire Humana.

Walmart is in talks with health insurer Humana for a closer partnership to provide health care to consumers at home and prevent illness, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Health-care spending accounted for about 18 percent of the U.S. economy last year, and continues to surge with an aging population, pricey medications, and a complex regime of reimbursements and middlemen. Companies have been trying to address some of the market’s inefficiencies by forging alliances or getting bigger: Cigna Corp. is acquiring Express Scripts Holding Co. for $54 billion, and CVS Health Corp. is buying Aetna Inc. for $68 billion.

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Source: AdAge

Paradigmenwechsel in den eigenen vier Wänden

Category : General · No Comments Mar 29th, 2018

Forscher des Gottlieb-Duttweiler-Instituts haben untersucht, wie die Schweizer wohnen. Mit der Digitalisierung sollen neue Wohnkonzepte entstehen. Die Wohnung wird Teil der Gemeinschaft.

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Source: Netzwoche

Kickback-Prozess: Mediaplus gewinnt gegen Haribo

Category : General · No Comments Mar 29th, 2018

Mediaplus gewinnt vor Gericht erneut gegen Harbio. Das Oberlandesgericht München hat die Klage des Lebensmittelkonzerns im Kickback-Streit erneut zurückgewiesen. …read more

Source: WUV

Why does the gun control issue feel different after Parkland? Just look at Taylor Swift.

Category : General · No Comments Mar 25th, 2018
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As far as political statements go, Taylor Swift’s March for Our Lives words weren’t anything terribly dramatic.

SEE ALSO: Taylor Swift finally takes a stand and donates to March for our Lives

The singer started her Instagram post with the common-sense statement that “No one should have to go to school in fear of gun violence,” and ended with an announcement that she’s made a donation in support of the movement. It’s nothing we haven’t seen from dozens, if not hundreds, of other celebrities already.

But it is something rare coming …read more

Source: Mashable

Pfeifer & Langen: So organisiert die größte Zucker-Sippe Deutschlands ihre Geschäfte

Category : General · No Comments Mar 25th, 2018

Die rheinische Süß-und-salzig-Dynastie gehört zu den reichsten und verschwiegensten Clans im Land. Nun steht die Sippe vor ihrer größten Herausforderung – die eigene Behäbigkeit zu besiegen. …read more

Source: MM Konstkompass

Adidas: All You Need

Category : General · No Comments Mar 23rd, 2018

For adidas’ line of women’s workout apparel we had to prove that they are indeed everything you need to start exercising. To achieve this we’ve created a series of social media workout videos for mobile devices.

Watch: Chicago lures Amazon with William Shatner

Category : General · No Comments Mar 23rd, 2018

Amazon founder Bezos has been a Trekkie since he was a kid and ticked an item off his bucket list when he made a cameo as an alien in the 2016 flick “Star Trek Beyond.”

Bucket list. Cast, crew and Justin Lin @trailingjohnson were amazing. #StarTrekBeyond https://t.co/VJ95D8pQeK

Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) July 20, 2016

Amazon founder Bezos has been a Trekkie since he was a kid and ticked an item off his bucket list when he made a cameo as an alien in the 2016 flick “Star Trek Beyond.”

Bucket list. Cast, crew and Justin Lin @trailingjohnson were amazing. #StarTrekBeyond https://t.co/VJ95D8pQeK

Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) July 20, 2016

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Quickline erzielt Umsatzrekord

Category : General · No Comments Mar 23rd, 2018

Quickline hat noch nie so viel Umsatz erwirtschaftet wie im Geschäftsjahr 2017. Er betrug per Ende 2017 rund 276 Millionen Franken.

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Source: Netzwoche

Decathlon startet in die Fahrradsaison

Category : General · No Comments Mar 23rd, 2018

Der Sportartikel-Händer und -Hersteller Decathlon bewirbt in seinem neuen TV-Spot Fahrräder der Eigenmarke B’Twin – mit Mitarbeitern. Umgesetzt hat ihn die Agentur Neue Bewegung. …read more

Source: WUV

Everything you need to know about the Cambridge Analytica controversy

Category : General · No Comments Mar 18th, 2018
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Facebook is once again in hot water over the role its policies may have played in the election.

On Saturday, two explosive reports from The Guardian and The New York Times surfaced alleging that more than 50 million Facebook users had personal data used without their knowledge by Cambridge Analytica, a U.K.-based data firm employed by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016.

The news quickly set off a firestorm on social media, where Facebook executives attempted …read more

Source: Mashable

China und Deutschland gemeinsam gegen USA: Trump treibt Berlin in die Arme Pekings

Category : General · No Comments Mar 18th, 2018

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Source: MM Konstkompass

Facebook Suspends Trump Election Data Firm for Policy Breach

Category : General · No Comments Mar 17th, 2018

Facebook has suspended Cambridge Analytica, a data company that helped President Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election and which may have collected data from 50 million Facebook profiles without their owners’ permission.

The social-networking company said in a blog post Friday that Cambridge Analytica received some user data through an app developer on its social network, violating its policies. In 2015, Facebook said Cambridge Analytica certified that it had destroyed the information.

“Several days ago, we received reports that, contrary to the certifications we were given, not all data was deleted,” Facebook said in a statement. Cambridge Analytica and parent Strategic Communication Laboratories have been suspended from the social network, “pending further information,” Facebook said.

Facebook has suspended Cambridge Analytica, a data company that helped President Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election and which may have collected data from 50 million Facebook profiles without their owners’ permission.

The social-networking company said in a blog post Friday that Cambridge Analytica received some user data through an app developer on its social network, violating its policies. In 2015, Facebook said Cambridge Analytica certified that it had destroyed the information.

“Several days ago, we received reports that, contrary to the certifications we were given, not all data was deleted,” Facebook said in a statement. Cambridge Analytica and parent Strategic …read more

Source: AdAge

Ton Hollander und Dirk Bittermann steigen bei BBDO aus

Category : General · No Comments Mar 16th, 2018

Die deutsche BBDO-Gruppe muss ihr Management am Hauptsitz Düsseldorf neu besetzen. …read more

Source: WUV

Dobler macht der Armee-IT Beine

Category : General · No Comments Mar 16th, 2018

Marcel Dobler hat im Nationalrat drei Motionen für mehr Effizienz in der Schweizer Armee eingereicht. Per digitalem Dienstbüchlein, Software für die Ferienplanung und Informatik-WK soll die Armeeverwaltung von Bürokratie befreit werden.

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Source: Netzwoche

Netflix: Narcos, 3

Category : General · No Comments Mar 15th, 2018
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Taylor Swift's video for 'Delicate' is a whole lot of goofy dancing

Category : General · No Comments Mar 12th, 2018
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Dance like nobody’s watching.

That’s the theme behind Taylor Swift’s music video for “Delicate,” which was released during the iHeartRadio Music Awards on Sunday.

In the fourth video from Swift’s Reputation, following “Look What You Made Me Do,” “… Ready For It?” and “End Game,” there’s a whole lot of goofy dancing from the pop mogul.

Channeling Sia favourite Maddie Ziegler and perhaps Greta Gerwig in Arcade Fire’s “Afterlife” video, Swift gallivants through the halls of the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, the Los Angeles Theatre, and around the streets of downtown …read more

Source: Mashable

Nike: Free Your Mind

Category : General · No Comments Mar 11th, 2018

Strafzölle der USA: Europa - wir haben ein Deutschland-Problem

Category : General · No Comments Mar 11th, 2018

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Source: MM Konstkompass

Marketer Leaves Unilever Amid Sexual Harassment Probe

Category : General · No Comments Mar 11th, 2018


A scandal-plagued former Tory politician banned for life in 2015 by his party has left his Unilever marketing job amid an internal investigation into sexual-harassment allegations by an unnamed contractor.

The original political scandal that engulfed Mark Clarke included allegations of sexual assault and harassment, bullying a young Conservative Party member who committed suicide and blackmailing fellow party members. Unilever officially declined to acknowledge his continued employment as senior director of marketing analytics in 2016, but he remained with the company until now. He worked on social-media analytics.

None of the allegations that fueled Clarke’s political scandal involved his Unilever …read more

Source: AdAge

Mediacom ist der Pitchsieger des Jahres 2017

Category : General · No Comments Mar 9th, 2018

Mediacom liegt an die Spitze des New Business Barometers für 2017. In Summe wurden acht große Pitches für 731 Mio. Dollar gewonnen. …read more

Source: WUV

IOZ zeigt Einsatzfelder von Sharepoint und Office 365

Category : General · No Comments Mar 9th, 2018

Im Zentrum des 50. Events der Veranstaltungsreihe “Sharepoint & Office 365 Community Zentralschweiz” standen Praxisbeispiele rund um den Einsatz von Collaboration Tools aus der Cloud. Der Saal war mit über 70 Teilnehmenden bis auf den letzten Platz gefüllt.

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Source: Netzwoche

Trump BFF Hope Hicks pays a visit to 'Saturday Night Live' Weekend Update

Category : General · No Comments Mar 4th, 2018
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Last week, White House communications director and longtime Donald Trump aide Hope Hicks called it quits. And yes, Saturday Night Live Weekend Update took note.

There are some all-star one-liners in this particular Weekend Update — “You know things are bad when a 29-year-old with no experience who works directly for the President of the United States thinks, ‘I gotta get out of this dead-end job,'” Colin Jost said at one point — but Cecily Strong-as-Hicks is the highlight.

Come for the jokey news round-up, stay for the touching goodbye to all …read more

Source: Mashable

Nobel-Skiort mit Drei-Sterne-Restaurant und Designer-Boutiquen: In Courchevel ist das Skifahren fast Nebensache

Category : General · No Comments Mar 4th, 2018

Für viele ist Skifahren in Courchevel nur Nebensache – trotz des größten Skigebiets der Welt. Frankreichs Nobelskiort lockt mit Designer-Boutiquen, Edelhütten, Luxushotels und mehr Sternerestaurants als jeder andere Skiort. …read more

Source: MM Konstkompass

Delta Rethinks Deals for Any 'Divisive' Group Amid NRA Fray

Category : General · No Comments Mar 2nd, 2018

Delta Air Lines is studying whether to end discounts for “politically divisive” organizations, after a firestorm over its decision to terminate a deal with the National Rifle Association.

CEO Ed Bastian announced the policy review a day after Georgia lawmakers punished Delta by removing a jet-fuel tax exemption from a larger bill. Politicians stripped out the provision after the Atlanta-based carrier eliminated a discount for NRA members attending the group’s annual meeting.

“Our discounted travel benefit for NRA members could be seen as Delta implicitly endorsing the NRA. That is not the case,” Bastian said Friday in a memo to employees. “While Delta’s intent was to remain neutral, some elected officials in Georgia tied our decision to a pending jet-fuel tax exemption, threatening to eliminate it unless we reversed course. Our decision was not made for economic gain and our values are not for sale.”

Delta Air Lines is studying whether to end discounts for “politically divisive” organizations, after a firestorm over its decision to terminate a deal with the National Rifle Association.

CEO Ed Bastian announced the policy review a day after Georgia lawmakers punished Delta by removing a jet-fuel tax exemption from a larger bill. Politicians stripped out the provision after the Atlanta-based carrier eliminated a discount for NRA members attending the group’s annual meeting.

“Our discounted travel benefit for NRA members could be seen as Delta implicitly endorsing the NRA. That is not the case,” Bastian said Friday in a memo to employees. “While …read more

Source: AdAge

MWC 2018: Was Schweizer Unternehmen in Barcelona zeigen

Category : General · No Comments Mar 2nd, 2018

In dieser Woche traf sich die Mobilfunk-Branche in Barcelona zum Mobile World Congress. Unter den mehr als 2300 Ausstellern waren auch Schweizer Unternehmen. Die Redaktion hat einige davon besucht.

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Source: Netzwoche

Ex-Dentsu-Chef Zoja Paskaljevic steigt bei Ciesco ein

Category : General · No Comments Mar 2nd, 2018

Der ehemalige CEO der Dentsu Aegis Network (DAN), Zoja Paskaljevic, wird Partner bei der Londonder M&A-Beratung Ciesco und baut in Düsseldorf eine Dependance auf. …read more

Source: WUV