TREND REPORTS
These Are The Industries Attracting The Most Venture Capital
[Investing]
2017/02/14 10:53
Venture capital - the money provided by investors to startup firms and small businesses showing potential for long-term growth – is generally thought of as “good capital”.It promotes innovation and long-term investment, but not all industries manage to attract enough of it.Industry investmentIn terms of global venture capital investment, the United States is leading the way-with an estimated...
Former Cisco CEO John Chambers Invests in Counter-Drone Security Firm Dedrone
[Investing]
2017/02/14 10:53
Counter-drone security firm Dedrone has raised $15 million in a second round of funding led by John Chambers, executive chairman and former CEO of Cisco, and Felicis Ventures.The company makes software to detect drones in your air space and provide an early warning about someone snooping on your property.The funding comes on the heels of Dedrone’s rapid expansion in the security market. The ne...
MIT Programmable Material Adapts to Temperature Just Like Human Skin
[Tech]
2017/02/14 10:52
Researchers at the MIT self-assembly lab have developed a smart material that works just like the pores on human skin, expanding and contracting depending on the surrounding temperature. The porous material called ‘active auxetic’ is designed to tighten in cold weather, providing increased insulation, and unfurl in warm weather to allow air circulation. at MIT’s self-assembly lab, the comput...
(Video) An Urban Breathing Mask for the 21st Century - Airinum
[Product]
2017/02/14 10:52
It's come to this: Designer "Urban Breathing Masks" will protect your lungs when you leave the house.When you hear 'Scandinavian design' and 'limited edition', the first thing to come to mind probably isn't a face mask for filtering out air pollution, but then again, we've only just begun the year 2017, so perhaps it's still early yet. But seriously, when it comes to protecting ourselves from t...
Brands Use The Grammys to Promote Social Action
[Business]
2017/02/14 10:52
As highlighted in 2016’s Impact, youth have a bleak outlook about the direction of the world, but their characteristic optimism is driving them to reconcile such negativity through new approaches to societal betterment.They are increasingly holding brands accountable in promoting social change, expecting them to not only to give back monetarily but also to modernize their practices and campaig...
Cooking with Organic Polymer - Tree of Life
[Design]
2017/02/14 10:52
I’d say this is the next best thing to having a private chef, but it might actually be better! Imagine having any dish delivered to you on a whim. Whatever you’re craving, Tree of Life can make it appear in a jiffy.This sophisticated all-in-one refrigerator/cooker can create an entire meal of the user’s choice with an organic polymer and flavoring system. Control it with your tablet and choo...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Digital Risk : Transforming Risk Management for the 2020s
[Business]
2017/02/13 11:14
A new survey suggests that for their transformations to succeed, organizations need employee buy-in at all levels, consistent communication, and better people strategies.Organizational transformations are hard work, and according to the latest McKinsey Global Survey on the topic,1 companies are no more successful at overhauling their performance and organizational health than they were ten year...
Unicorn Nursery : Outside the U.S., India’s IIT Produces the Most Billion-Dollar Startup Founders
[Investing]
2017/02/13 11:13
The Indian Institute of Technology ranks fourth after Harvard, Stanford and the University of California. Indian Institutes of Technology were ranked fourth for educating students who went on to create billion-dollars startups, a report by Sage, a U.K-based accounting software firm said this week.Stanford University was the source of the largest number of unicorn founders, followed by Harvard U...
Now WeChat Lets You Gift a Starbucks Coffee to Friends
[Business]
2017/02/13 11:13
Starbucks has a new promotion in China, where people can use mobile app WeChat to send their friends coffees or gift certificates. The feature, which arrives in time for Valentine's Day, is called "Say it with Starbucks." That's a play on words, since the phrase in Chinese sounds similar to "say it with your heart."Starbucks has done similar social gifting promotions before with Twitter and Fac...
