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Urban Technology: The Business of Smart Cities

The Startup Magazine

Buildings can reduce their costs by reporting energy use actively. Improving grid management and optimizing power production through different sources and distributed energy production are critical to cost management. They save money immediately and pay for themselves within a few years. And they help lessen traffic congestion.

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What Businesses Can Learn From Donald Trump’s Email Marketing Failures

crowdSPRING Blog

As MarketingLand reports : One statistic that still jumps out: Obama’s 2012 campaign cost $690 million, a staggering kitty. The emails to Gale were among a wave of fundraising pleas inexplicably sent by the Trump campaign in recent days to lawmakers in the United Kingdom, Iceland, Australia and elsewhere. Approximately 4.5

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