TREND REPORTS
(Video) Samsung Flex 2020 Future Smartphone with Flexible Display
[Design]
2018/08/05 09:08
Technology, which a few years ago seemed fantastic, will soon become a reality. Several advanced manufacturers are already working on this. Lenovo and Nokia tried that at some point, but they haven’t gone into commercial products afterwards. Samsung also demonstrated its vision of future smartphone devices. Samsung is moving forward to developing flexible display technology which changes the d...
Apple's Road to $1 Trillion
[Investing]
2018/08/05 09:07
Despite the news that Apple lost its second place in the smartphone market to Huawei in the past quarter, the iPhone maker is closer than ever to becoming the first trillion dollar company. Following the release of better-than-expected results on Tuesday, the company’s share price climbed almost 6 percent on Wednesday and continued its upward trend on Thursday morning. While some news outlets...
Volta’s Ad-Supported Electric Vehicle Charging Service Raises $35M
[Investing]
2018/08/05 09:06
As increasing numbers of electric vehicles are expected to hit the streets, thanks to new models from big automakers soon hitting the market, charging networks like Volta Charging are raising new cash to meet the expected demand. The company today said it raised $35 million from investors led by the Invenergy Future Fund, the technology investment arm of renewable energy project developer Inven...
Naked Labs Raises $14M Led by Founders Fund for its 3D Body Scanning Mirror
[Investing]
2018/08/05 09:05
Naked Labs believes that body shape is a more important thing to measure and they’ve begun shipping their body-scanning mirror that builds a 3D model of users and alerts them where progress is being made and where there’s potential for more work to be done.The startup also announced today that it has raised a $14 million Series A led by Founders Fund. Also participating were NEA, Lumia Capita...
Python is Becoming the World’s Most Popular Coding Language
[Tech]
2018/08/05 09:04
But its rivals are unlikely to disappear.“I CERTAINLY didn’t set out to create a language that was intended for mass consumption,” says Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist who devised Python, a programming language, in 1989. But nearly three decades on, his invention has overtaken almost all of its rivals and brought coding to the fingertips of people who were once baffled by it. In...
Spinnova Wants Your Next T-shirt to be Made from Wood
[Tech]
2018/08/05 09:03
Spinnova has found a way to spin any cellulose–wood, potato peels, even old T-shirts–into new, strong fiber. This startup wants your next T-shirt to be made from wood.In a new pilot factory in Jyväskylä, Finland–a city surrounded by forests and known in part for its lumber and paper industries–a startup will soon begin to turn wood pulp into something new: a type of fabric that could even...
The End of the Global Housing Boom
[Investing]
2018/08/02 09:36
After a years-long surge in global capitals, property prices are starting to head lower. From Sydney to Toronto, here’s a look at what’s ahead. From London to Sydney and Beijing to New York, house prices in some of the world’s most sought-after cities are heading south.Tax changes to damp demand, values out of kilter with affordability and tougher lending standards have combined to undermine...
This No-Brand Startup, Brandless Won $240M to Fight Amazon on Price and Quality
[Investing]
2018/08/02 09:35
Brandless sells about 300 home-goods staples, mostly for $3 each.It’s tough to wow Masayoshi Son with a bargain, but during a meeting this spring, Brandless left the SoftBank Group chief executive officer a bit flabbergasted. Yes, the startup’s founders assured the billionaire, every product he picked up from the table, from the extra-virgin olive oil to the carbon-steel eyelash curler, was j...
(PDF) KPMG - The Pulse of Fintech 2018
[Investing]
2018/08/02 09:35
Given the significant interest in fintech globally, and its ongoing evolution in terms of market drivers, technologies and potential use-cases, KPMG brings you the pulse of fintech investment globally. In this publication, we highlight key fintech deals, issues and challenges seen around the world, in addition to key trends and insights related to fintech in key regions, including the Americas,...
