TREND REPORTS
Are Foldable Phones a Fad ?
[Consumer]
2019/03/05 10:50
After years dominated by incremental upgrades rather than eye-catching innovations, the smartphone industry finally had something new to show off at last week’s Mobile World Congress. Foldable phones, i.e. phones with actual foldable displays as opposed to the flip phones popular in the early 2000s, are the next big thing in the smartphone market, at least that’s what the industry wants us to...
Motif Ingredients Launches With $90M To Make Meatless Protein
[Investing]
2019/03/05 10:49
Biotech unicorn Ginkgo Bioworks said today it’s launching a new spinoff called Motif Ingredients which will work on developing proteins that can serve as meat and dairy replacements. Boston-based Motif is starting out the gate with $90 million in Series A funding.In its statement about the new company, Ginkgo said Motif Ingredients will “leverage biotechnology to create novel solutions for fo...
What Investing $100 EARLY in Stocks and Bitcoin Would Be Worth Today
[Investing]
2019/03/05 10:49
There’s a lot of power in being first. And when it comes to Initial Public Offerings, or IPOs, it pays to be among one of the earliest investors.But we wanted to understand how much it would pay, so we ran an experiment. Imagine you could go back in time and invest $100 into a handful of great companies when they initially went public. What would your investments be worth today?Let’s start wi...
The Water in This Hospital is all Pulled out of Thin Air - Zero Mass Water
[Tech]
2019/03/05 10:49
In Jamaica, one hospital is giving up bottled water by using a system from Zero Mass Water, which uses the moisture in the air as a water supply.In Jamaica, bottled water is often seen as a necessity, even though the country struggles so much with plastic pollution that the government recently implemented a countrywide ban on plastic bags, straws, and Styrofoam. At the children’s ward of a loc...
'Google Visual Assistant' - The Next Development for Personal Assistants ?
[Design]
2019/03/05 10:49
Smart Speakers are gradually making themselves more known within our lives, with an array of smart-devices now available to choose from. However, the Google Visual Assistant concept brings a new layer of communication to the table… Visual Artificial Intelligence.Designed to use the capabilities of Google’s artificial intelligence and speech and sound recognition, this captivating projector op...
(Patent) Apple Patent Hints at AR Headset That'll Work with your iPhone
[Tech]
2019/03/04 11:13
The wide-ranging patent application for augmented reality tech hints at a possible headset from the iPhone maker.Apple's interest in augmented reality (AR) is revving up.That's the message behind a 292 page patent application the tech giant filed in August last year, detailing "an augmented reality environment," including using the technology on an iPhone, and potentially a headset as well.Perh...
JAB Upends Coffee Trading
[Business]
2019/03/04 11:12
The owner of Peet’s and Pret a Manger is pressuring suppliers already ground down by low prices.Brazil, guatemala or Kenya are the sorts of exotic locations that most people would associate with the cup of coffee that kickstarts their day. But increasingly it is Luxembourg that is providing the coffee business with an industrial shot of caffeine. jab Holding, a private-investment company based...
Mojio Raises $40M to Monetize Connected Car Data
[Investing]
2019/03/04 11:12
There will be an estimated 200 million connected cars on the world’s roads by 2020, a number that could rise to nearly 500 million in the U.S., Europe, and China alone by 2025. One of the big by-products of all these connected automobiles is data — location data, diagnostic data, drivers’ behavioral data, and more — which presents a lucrative opportunity for myriad applications and services...
Are Beer Sales Declining Carbs Push Drinkers To Wine, Tequila
[Business]
2019/03/04 11:12
U.S. drinkers ordering vodka sodas don’t want all the calories and carbs.At a recent frat party in the backroom of a Manhattan bar, beer was scarce. Students were instead sipping a more popular concoction that might make some drinkers’ stomachs churn: tequila with soda water.James Houk, 21, was drinking a gin-and-tonic. The Columbia University senior’s friends say they’ll still buy a 30-rac...
