TREND REPORTS
Visualizing the Money Made Per Second by Top Companies
[Investing]
2019/02/26 16:47
Imagine that for every second that passes, your bank account inches up $1.[click to enlarge]You’d be making $60 per minute, or the equivalent of $86,400 in a day. Over the course of a year, you’d roll in a solid $31.5 million of profit.While this would be prolific for almost any person or company in the world – the truth is that for many of America’s top companies, this amount of profit wou...
Walmart Launches Baby Line with Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard
[Product]
2019/02/26 16:47
Walmart on Monday launched "Hello Bello," an exclusive line of plant-derived baby products developed by husband-and-wife duo Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell, who are parents themselves.The 10 products — diapers, wipes, shampoo and body wash, bubble bath, baby lotion, diaper rash cream, hand sanitizer, mineral sunscreen, bug spray and laundry detergent — are "formulated with safe and effective in...
(Infographic) What We Spend On Valentine's Day
[Consumer]
2019/02/26 16:47
Counting the Cost of Valentine's Day.Infographic : https://cdn.moneytips.com/logo/24920__vmaster_v138.jpeg[moneytips]
(Patent) Full Moon Patents : Disney’s Acrobatic Robots and Ford’s Drive-by Drone Deliveries
[Tech]
2019/02/25 09:10
Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series about the best patents of the last synodic month, picked by the PatentYogi team. Get ready when that moon gets gibbous, y’all. This February-ish roundup lands on the beautiful Snow Moon!Since my last post, the US patent office issued over 33,041 patents and published over 32,2...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Air-Mobility Solutions : What They’ll Need to Take Off
[Business]
2019/02/25 09:09
Innovators are designing air taxis and delivery drones. But these won’t take flight unless stakeholders accelerate investment in air-mobility infrastructure.Traffic congestion forces US drivers to waste more than three billion gallons of fuel and keeps them trapped in their cars for almost seven billion extra hours each year.1 Much of that time might involve dreaming of a trip to work that doe...
How Self-Driving Cars Might Transform City Parking
[Tech]
2019/02/25 09:08
Autonomous vehicles could use parking lots more efficiently, but also worsen gridlock.Autonomous vehicles could transform parking as well as driving, new research suggests. Parking lots could house more driverless cars than human-driven ones, but autonomous vehicles could also lead to nightmarish gridlock if they slowly cruise the streets waiting for their owners, instead of paying to park.The...
(Infographic) Where Investors Put Their Money in 2018
[Investing]
2019/02/25 09:07
For most investors, 2018 was both an eventful and frustrating year.Between the looming threat of trade wars and growing geopolitical uncertainty, the market also skipped a beat. Volatility took center stage, and the S&P 500 finished in negative territory for the first time in 10 years.Although many asset classes finished in negative territory, a look at fund flows – essentially where inves...
Just Inc. Raising $200M Amid Controversial Past
[Investing]
2019/02/25 09:06
Plant-based food maker Just Inc. is raising $200 million in growth funding, according to Bloomberg. CLSA, the international affiliate of Beijing-based Citic Securities, is reportedly participating in the round, as Just Inc. is said to be gauging preliminary interest from Chinese investors.The news of the fundraise comes despite a history colored by a string of scandals, and it marks Just Inc.'s...
Brewing Disruption : 65+ Startups Could Revitalize The Industry
[Business]
2019/02/25 09:05
Self-poured drinks, AI-driven brew, connected kegs — here are the startups coming to disrupt your pint of beer.[click to enlarge]Dry January may be over, but beer is still struggling.Brewers sold 0.3% less beer in stores in the US in 2018 compared to the previous year, according to research firm IRI.Challengers such as hard seltzer may be partially to blame, along with health-conscious consume...
