TREND REPORTS
(PDF) Smart Speaker Consumer Adoption Report
[Consumer]
2018/05/23 09:58
New Voicebot Report Says Nearly 20% of U.S. Adults Have Smart Speakers.Voicebot collaborated with PullString and RAIN Agency to conduct an in-depth national survey of 1,057 U.S. adults to find out more about who owns smart speakers, which products they prefer and what they do with them. The result is the Voicebot Smart Speaker Consumer Adoption Report 2018, sponsored by PullString and RAIN.The...
(Patent) Walmart Files Patent for Blockchain-Based Customer Marketplace
[Tech]
2018/05/23 09:58
Walmart has filed a patent for a blockchain-based marketplace for reselling purchased products, according to a US Patent and Trademark Office USPTO patent filing from May 17.The application describes a service that would record a customer’s purchases in a blockchain ledger, thus allowing the customer to resell the items on a sales platform using the record of purchase.The patent notes that sin...
Starbucks’s Mobile Payment Service is Slightly Outpacing Apple’s
[Business]
2018/05/23 09:58
People really love getting their coffee more quickly. Starbucks, which has operated its own mobile payments service since 2011, is the market leader in terms of mobile payments users, beating out Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay, according to a new reporter from eMarketer. However, Starbucks’ lead over Apple Pay is only a small one – in 2017, it had 20.7 million U.S. users compared with...
How Conscious Products Are Taking Over The Beauty World
[Product]
2018/05/23 09:58
Clean beauty, encompassing environmentally-friendly, health-conscious, and animal-friendly products and ingredients, is in high demand, and brands are moving to deliver new and improved items.Although the beauty industry has traditionally relied on a tried-and-tested formula for its product offerings, shifting consumer behaviors are mandating new ingredients, benefits and products. Cosmetics an...
(PDF) Deloitte - Blockchain for Finance
[Investing]
2018/05/23 09:58
Crunch Time IV: Blockchain for Finance—what CFOs need to know.Explore “Blockchain for Finance,” the latest installment in our Crunch Time series, where we dive deep into business blockchains and what chief financial officers (CFOs) need to know about the distributed ledger technology. You can also examine other digital disruptors and their impacts in our other Crunch Time reports. Whatever y...
(Video) Autonomous Robotic Window Cleaner Takes First Place at Intel ISEF
[Tech]
2018/05/23 09:57
Oliver Nicholls, recipient of the 2018 Gordon E Moore Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, with his prize-winning automated robotic window cleaner prototype.Intel's International Science and Engineering Fair has been running for a number of years, with previous winners developing an inexpensive self-driving vehicle system, a cancer-detecting software tool, and a system...
MIT and BMW are Building the Stretchy, Inflatable Future of Cars
[Tech]
2018/05/23 09:57
Imagine being able to change your car’s interior at the press of a button. Thanks to MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab, it’s not as far-fetched as it sounds.“Air is pretty cheap,” says Skylar Tibbits, the co-director and founder of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT’s International Design Center. He’s making a point about inflatables, which could be useful for designers of everything from packaging to s...
(Infographic) Why ‘Transformists’ Are the Demographic Brands Should Be Targeting
[Consumer]
2018/05/23 09:57
There are 38 million in the U.S.While millennials may be the hottest demographic for marketers to target, research by Insider Inc. and Digitas says they’re not the most powerful influencers—and that we shouldn’t be focusing so much on generations in the first place. A recent study identifies a new group of people cutting across age groups and backgrounds that brands should be chasing: the “...
CoinDesk Releases Q1 2018 State of Blockchain Report
[Investing]
2018/05/22 09:10
After reaching historic highs in 2017, cryptocurrencies languished across multiple fundamental metrics in this year's first quarter. Unease permeated the industry, mostly from regulatory uncertainty and pull-back after a year of parabolic growth.To shed light on a tumultuous Q1, CoinDesk's latest State of Blockchain report provides a 90-plus slide analysis of some of the most significant data p...
