Les robots causeront la disparition de 6% des emplois américains d’ici 2021

Chaque vendredi, dans sa revue de presse, Maddyness vous propose une sélection d’articles qui ont retenu l’attention de la rédaction. Cette semaine, les robots tueurs d'emploi, les VTC autonomes débarquent à Pittsburgh et Amazon pourrait bien enterrer FedEx.

Harvard Says That Entrepreneurship Is the Brightest Spot in a Crappy Economy

Today, Harvard Business School’s U.S. Competitiveness Project released a report titled, “Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided.”Competitiveness, according to the authors, refers to “the ability of firms operating in the U.S. to compete successfully in the global economy while supporting high and rising living standards for the average American.” In other words, the U.S. cannot sustain prosperity through corporate gains alone.

Source : Entrepreneur.com

Will Amazon Kill FedEx ?

For UPS and FedEx, Amazon’s been great for business. Now it’s taking business away from them.

Last fall, when he was running for mayor of Wilmington, Ohio, John Stanforth heard a rumor. A big company was testing an airfreight operation at the local airport, Wilmington Air Park. Whoever it was wanted to keep the project quiet. People who frequented the airport said the company was wrapping its packages in black plastic to obscure any lettering and referred to its experiment as Project Amelia. He wasn’t sure which company it was, though some people were whispering it was Amazon.com.

Source : Bloomberg

Spotify progresse plus vite qu'Apple Music

Le service de streaming atteint 40 millions de membres payants, dix millions de plus qu'au début de l'année. Il creuse l'écart sur Apple Music. L'arrivée d'Apple Music a donné un coup d'accélérateur à Spotify. Le numéro un mondial du streaming a annoncé mercredi avoir dépassé les 40 millions d'abonnés payants. «40, c'est le nouveau 30. Millions», a tweeté le cofondateur et directeur général de Spotify.