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Alibaba is planning to open its first brick-and-mortar mall in April at its headquarters in Hangzhou, China, MarketWatch reports . “More Mall,” as it is reportedly called, will be five stories tall and offer products from brands on Alibaba’s Taobao platform and elsewhere. It will also feature retail technologies like virtual fitting rooms, high-tech makeup testing mirrors, and Alibaba’s tech-based grocery store. More Mall is another step in Alibaba’s plan to go after traditional retail. The company has invested as much as $8 billion in brick-and-mortar retail in the last two years, according to Forbes, with its current footprint including Hema, its grocery store chain, and Tao Cafe, its unstaffed convenience store. Hema stores allow shoppers to get additional product information by scanning a barcode and order items to be shipped from the store, while Tao Cafe offers customers the ability to pick their products and pay automatically upon their exit. These innovations could ...

When you’re trying to resolve a conflict with a colleague, the venue will have an effect on whether you both feel able to speak freely, express any emotions, and reach a resolution. Select a location where you’ll both be comfortable. Ideally, you want the conversation to happen face-to-face and in private. Maybe you’ll meet in a neutral conference room or at a nearby coffee shop . Or you might take a walk outside together for a change of scenery. Avoid choosing a place that gives you or your coworker an advantage. Inviting someone into your office puts you in a power position, for example, because it’s your space and you’re the one sitting behind a desk. And when choosing a conference room, think about who’s in the adjacent rooms. Sometimes walls are thinner than you think. [culled from: HBR] Chip.ng is Nigeria’s number one online Shopping mall that meet all your needs. We boast of providing products and services from well known brands, local and international at alw...

Technology has come to be part of our everyday lives. The environment has completely been changed, especially in the minds of youngsters. Our gadgets, especially our cellphones have become such essential tool, that it is only needful that we know not just how to use them, but also how to take care of them- for precautionary and longevity reasons.  So according Gadgets360's professional view, here are five(5) ways to take care of your cellphones 1. Don't let your phone overheat Heat is perhaps the worst enemy of lithium-ion batteries, the kind most smartphones use. You should take basic precautions like not keeping your phone on the dash board of the car where it will get a lot of direct sunlight. You should also avoid charging your phone while playing graphically intensive games, because that will also raise the temperature of the phone and harm the battery. The ideal charging temperature is between 20-30 degrees Celsius, according to a OnePlus product manager....

In a world so cramped with lots of struggles and competition, it is safe to assert that it is only those who manage to stay fit and sane that survive; hence, the epiphany - The survival of the fittest. Fitness does not just mean muscles and weights. It also means skills, practicable skills. If you are not productive, you fade out. It's that simple. While acquiring formal education in school, we were given the similitude of survival skills to which is expected we apply in real world, which in turn will deliver at least our basic needs - food, shelter and clothing. It worked then. But now you need more than school grades to actually get even the basic need. The basic skills learnt in traditional  schools today is no longer enough. Hence, the Bow and Brain strategy. The education, which is hoped to have inculcated a skill, is your Bow, i.e., your weapon. This is what conventional education gives you. But specialized education gives you a renewed creative mind, which is ter...

Since this administration got into power, the most recurring word in Nigeria's economic industry is recession. Many did not even know that this word exist until they were plunged into it. However, this ugliness is here among us and is threatening to cohabit with us for much longer than is necessary or required. Hardship is bad - when viewed from an angle. But if viewed from other angles, it can be a tool of greatness. Many successful people in the world today have credited their success to a one time hardship, or deficiency, which prompted them into doing the extraordinary. Of course if everything were rosy, some of the great inventions in the world today wouldn't have been thought of, let alone brought to being. Napoleon Hill, in his address said, "There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is  definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants and a burning desire to achieve it." To live above this evil called recession, you must be...

As social beings, verbal interaction is one of the ways we communicate our feelings and ideas.. In fact, one of the celebrated feature of a human specie is when his speech ability is birthed (which usually manifests after 2 years of his existence). Of course, ability to interact goes a long way to determine your maturity and sanity. After learning to talk, the next skill to imbibe is to know when to talk or keep quiet. But what if there's a conversation that needs to be made which its thought frightens the life out of you? What do you do? Have you been putting off an important but difficult conversation? Perhaps you just can’t bring yourself to share some negative feedback with a peer. Or maybe you’re hesitant to admit to something you did wrong.  Unfortunately,  postponing a potentially awkward conversation usually only makes it worse. In the majority of situations, you should have the difficult conversation as quickly as possible. The only way to do this is to pr...

The way we pay is changing dramatically. People are beginning to use their smartphones for every kind of formal and informal transaction — to shop at stores ( www.chip.ng ), buy songs online, and even split their rent... Nearly half of consumers prefer using digital apps to make payments. Roughly 47% of consumers stated that they preferred digital means for performing transactions, while cash came in slightly lower, at 45%. This difference will likely become more profound as consumers increasingly move away from using cash. In fact, half of survey respondents reported that they carry cash less than half of the time, and when they do, they often don't use it — 46% of consumers reported using cash fewer than eight days a month.  And these habits don't vary much by demographic segment. Although millennials are embracing the use of digital payments more than any other age group — 49% of millennials prefer digital payments to cash — they aren't the only ones; 44% of G...