August 22, 2014

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Review

Uber’s Most Important Innovation Isn’t A Car Service: It’s the Pricing Algorithm

Uber’s most important innovation is the way it prices its services. But that innovation has not been unreservedly welcomed by customers. They’re wrong.

 
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Featured Story

Chinese Search Giant Baidu Thinks AI Pioneer Andrew Ng Can Help It Challenge Google and Become a Global Power

Baidu is a fixture of online life in China, but it wants to become a global power. Can one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence researchers help it challenge Silicon Valley’s biggest companies?

 

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Recommended from Around the Web (Week Ending August 23, 2014)

A roundup of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff at MIT Technology Review.

 
 

Business Reports

GlaxoSmithKline Leads a Surprising Push for Data Sharing

Normally super-secretive, pharmaceutical companies are opening up in the hopes of jump starting drug development.

 
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Big Question

Can Mobile Technologies and Big Data Improve Health?

Medical data is a hot spot for venture investing and product innovation. The payoff could be better care.

 
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