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Upstox, an investment platform, has launched a campaign called "Cut the Kit Kit" to help retail investors make informed investment decisions. The campaign aims to address challenges such as misleading advice, information overload, and complex jargon that can hinder investment success. LifeWall has also partnered with UnFoldMart to enhance its digital presence and drive growth through performance marketing. Additionally, various brands have launched Holi campaigns to connect with their target audience during the festive season. [Extracted from the article]

According to a study titled "The Empowered Consumer Research" by Accenture, information overload is a growing concern for shoppers, with 76% of Indian consumers feeling overwhelmed by too many choices while making purchases. The study found that 88% of consumers have abandoned their purchases in the last three months of 2023 due to information overload. The report suggests that brands should utilize generative AI (gen AI) to reduce the noise around decision-making and increase engagement, loyalty, and sales. The article also briefly mentions the luxury retail industry's increasing demand and its recruitment of talent from the hospitality and aviation sectors. [Extracted from the article]

Analyzes the social significance of the phrase "weapons of mass distraction," a wordplay on "weapons of mass destruction," in the United States. Attention-deficit behavior in the country; Distraction arising from too much information; Culture shock due to distraction, as discussed by David Shenk in his book "Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut."

The author, the humanities dean from Cooper Union, discusses the relationship between scholarly authors and readers, print versus electronic publishing, and the role of the Internet in scholarly publishing in 2013. Online book marketing, Internet retailer Amazon, and reader psychology are discussed, as well as information overload, the role of academic publishing in scholarly discourse, and academic criticism. The revision of dissertations for publication as books, scholarly thesis, and discussion based teaching methods are also discussed.

The article discusses research on the effect of information overload on the human brain. It notes research showing the profusion of sources of information from 1960 to 2005 has increased approximately 2,000 times. It notes the need for digital technologies to organize the vast input, including search engines, recommendation systems by TiVo company and collaborative filters. It notes that most people, when asked, say that they usually find what they want on the Google search engine. It points out that such technology is termed pull media because the user directs it, while television advertisements are considered push media. It suggests a study comparing information retrieved from headlines and prime time offerings to that which results from a Google search.

The article discusses information overload through an exploration of the vast amounts of information that exist in regards to texts and digital data. It presents a historical overview of information seeking behavior by humans through the use of books, explores note-taking as the most ancient form of information categorization, and describes how the invention of the printing press contributed to information overload. It also explores the role that sorting, storing, and summarizing play in the retrieval of high-quality information.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Appraising Information Abundance" by W. Russell Neuman in the February 5, 2010 issue.

Focuses on the incidence of information overload in academic institutions. Efforts of University of Washington Information School professor David M. Levy to disseminate information about the issue; Benefits of the Internet to professors; Reason behind the need to encourage students to take time away from technology, according to David H. Landers, director of the student resource at Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont.

In this article the author comments that electronic devices are flooding people with information, which keeps them distracted.

The article discusses the mental clutter caused by collecting too much digital information.

The author reflects on oversharing and status anxiety in the Internet. The author is critical of information overload such as unwanted shared personal information, in social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and the anxiety of social media users regarding their status in these sites. He says that social media does not mean everybody should be that social.

Are people suffering from gadget overload? Are they exhausted by the consumer equivalent of the brain fatigue -- information overload -- that is caused by a constant updates of devices and online media? Underwriters Laboratories, the venerable nonprofit product testing and certification organization, issued a study last week that found about half of consumers, 48 percent, ''feel high-tech manufacturers bring new products to market faster than people need them.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article explores the reasons behind the information overload hype.

The author considers the argument on technology that it is both good and bad, in the sense that despite its capability to reshape culture, economy and society, it causes information overload.

The article focuses on the efforts by several U.S. companies to develop their own Web sites for cellular telephone users. One of these companies is National Instruments Corp. which shared its cellular telephone modification project on its online forum for clients. Another one is the technology company Hewlett-Packard Co. which is developing plans to create its first Web site for wireless users. The author emphasizes that companies should avoid information overload.

The author reflects on the impact of the overabundance of information on individuals. He cites several ways for coping up with the negative impact of information overload. He suggests that young people who are growing up multitasking are already less anxious about using technology. He argues that technological progress will not end, which makes the trend toward multitasking and consuming various types of information to continue.

The author reflects on the decline in people's ability to focus as a result of information overload. He comments on a new organization, the Information Overload Research Group, whose founders include executives from companies such as Microsoft, Google, IBM and Intel. According to the author, although these are the very companies that have done the most to create the information tools that undermine the ability to focus, it is encouraging that they are trying to overcome their own overload.

The onslaught of cellphone calls and e-mail and instant messages is fracturing attention spans and hurting productivity. It is a common complaint. But now the very companies that helped create the flood are trying to mop it up. Some of the biggest technology firms, including Microsoft, Intel, Google and I.B.M., are banding together to fight information overload. Last week they formed a nonprofit group to study the problem, publicize it and devise ways to help workers -- theirs and others -- cope with the digital deluge. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Comments on the changes in the investor psyche. Susceptibility of investors to information overload; Impact of the changes on corporate governance; Dependence of success on an individual's adaptability.

Provides information on the management of information overload in the workplace. Control of knowledge; Importance of knowledge on available technology; Education on electronic communications.