In 1886, the modern corporation was born. The Santa Clara County railroad company incorporated, gaining legal rights just like an individual. Yesterday at aSocial Media Weekevent in NYC, Benjamin Palmer, CEO ofThe Barbarian Group, gave a keynote speech titled “Humanizing Brands: It’s Only Taken 192 years.” Palmer, who has been named one of Creativity’s 50 top creatives and
one of Esquire’s ‘Best & Brightest,’ grew up reading the Encyclopedia Britannica on how corporations are structured....

Abu Dhabi is about to begin production on humanoid robots that could eventually completely replace human workers in malls and exhibition centers. The life-size robots are currently being developed by Barcelona-basedPAL Robotics, a company under the umbrella of the Abu Dhabi based Royal Group. With plans for a factory in which a dozen robots will be produced per month, PAL Robotics has already debuted the final productREEM, a 1.65m humanoid robot, at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Center, where an order for 20 robots has already been made....

London has no shortage of eateries, but knowing where to go for that perfect sandwich isn’t all that easy if you find yourself in an unfamiliar part of the city. However, this is one quandary this app tries to solve. Best Sandwiches Londonwas released yesterday, and it’s compatible with iOS 4.0 devices and above. As its name suggests, the app will enable Londoners to locate and rate the best sandwiches across the city – but there’s more to it than that…it’s curated....

TLDR:You can organize your life on the phone with a second private number from Hushed that’s a whole lot cheaper than getting a second costly phone service plan. In 2004, more than 90 percent of American adults lived in a household with a landline. By last year, that number hadtumbled to just under 37 percent. Increasingly, users are deciding that the smartphone is the one and only device they need, often with one single phone number as that primary point of contact....

Just 5% of employed people in the UK worked from homein 2019. The onset of the pandemic and the overnight shuttering of offices during the first lockdown meant47% of employeeswere doing the same in April 2020. Although returning to work in offices full timeis now possible, thelatest figuresfrom May show 26% are still working from home while a further 11% are hybrid working: splitting their work time between the office and home....