TREND REPORTS
(PDF) WEF - The Future of the Last-Mile Ecosystem
[Business]
2020/01/16 09:10
Demand for urban last-mile delivery is expected to grow 78% by 2030, leading to 36% more delivery vehicles in 100 cities around the world.Deliveries will cause related emissions to rise by nearly one-third and add 11 minutes to each passenger’s commute. A new report analyses possible interventions including droids, electric vehicles and parcel lockers.A growing consumer appetite for convenienc...
(Video) Stanford 'Human Screenome Project' Will Capture Everything We Do On Our Phones
[Business]
2020/01/16 09:09
To understand how people use digital media, researchers need to move beyond screen time and capture everything we do and see on our screens..It proposes taking screenshots of your smartphone activity every five seconds to better understand our digital lives. Is it worth it? If Byron Reeves has his way, the concept of “screen time” will be a relic. Instead, it will be your “screenome” that’...
Amazon vs. Walmart : Who’s Really Winning Online Grocery ?
[Business]
2020/01/16 09:08
Consumer adoption of online grocery—led primarily by Amazon and Walmart—saw hockey-stick growth last year. As these two Goliaths vie for market control, conflicting reports have made it difficult to determine who has the momentum, and where consumers prefer to shop.Amazon currently holds the largest market share of online grocery. We estimate that Amazon’s US food and beverage sales amounted...
In Silicon Valley, Some Men Say Cosmetic Procedures are Essential to a Career
[Consumer]
2020/01/16 09:07
Women have long felt the pressure of looking the part. Now men are feeling it, too.Lounging at an outdoor cafe just outside downtown San Francisco, his athletic frame filling out a slim-fit button-up, a talkative tech worker named Daniel detailed the many ways he’s optimizing his existence.Only the previous week, he says, he returned from a 10-day trip to Italy’s Amalfi Coast. Before that, he...
NextNav Raises $120M to Deploy Its Indoor Positioning Tech to Find People in Skyscrapers
[Investing]
2020/01/16 09:06
NextNav LLC has raised $120 million in equity and debt to commercially deploy an indoor-positioning system that can pinpoint a device’s location — including what floor it’s on — without GPS.The company has developed what it calls a Metropolitan Beacon System, which can find the location of devices like smartphones, drones, IoT products or even self-driving vehicles in indoor and urban areas...
(PDF) PwC - Predictions for 2020 : “Slowbalisation” is the New Globalisation
[Investing]
2020/01/16 09:05
Projecting what the future holds is an important exercise for businesses looking to plan ahead. Below we present a summary of some of the themes we assess will likely prevail in the global economy in 2020.Trading goods across borders will likely remain tense…: A defining feature of the global economy since at least the 1970’s has been globalisation—the bringing together of economies predomin...
Volkswagen Will Be World’s Biggest Electric Car Maker by 2030
[Business]
2020/01/16 09:04
Tesla will need to launch an entry-level vehicle if it’s going to achieve its own market-share ambitions, according to new WoodMac research.German automotive giant Volkswagen will become the largest manufacturer of EVs before 2030, according to new analysis from Wood Mackenzie.WoodMac expects Volkswagen to produce 14 million battery electric vehicles (BEVs) cumulatively by 2028, and climb from...
A Clean Air Barrier to Protect Kids - Brizi
[Product]
2020/01/16 09:03
Brizi can reduce pollution in the baby's breathing area by about 50% on average, and up to 80%... [+] during spikes of pollution.Every year, 570,000 children under five years old die from respiratory infections worldwide. Yosi Romano, based in the United Kingdom, came up with the idea for Brizi when his daughter was an infant in London. “While pushing her in a pram between home and the nursery...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Industry’s Fast-Mover Advantage : Enterprise Value from Digital Factories
[Business]
2020/01/15 09:10
Manufacturing’s leaders in applying Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) digital technologies are building on their head start—generating even more value across the entire enterprise.The latest findings from the Global Lighthouse Network, an ongoing research project by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with McKinsey, confirm the transformative power of innovative manufacturing technolog...
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