TREND REPORTS
(PDF) MIT Sloan - Companies Brace for Decade of Disruption From AI
[Business]
2017/01/25 10:20
Executives of the nation’s biggest corporations fear that major disruption is on the horizon. This is a central finding of the 2017 Big Data Executive Survey from NewVantage Partners, which tracks the views of senior corporate executives on disruptive capabilities, ranging from Big Data to artificial intelligence.According to the fifth annual survey, which was released this month, nearly half...
(M&A) The First Tech IPO of 2017 is Cancelled: Cisco is Buying AppDynamics for $3.7 Billion
[Investing]
2017/01/25 10:19
AppDynamics, which would have been the first big tech IPO of 2017, is getting purchased by Cisco for $3.7 billion in cash and equity awards, according to a blog post. This is looking like a strong exit for AppDynamics: The San Francisco startup's now-scuppered IPO was looking to value the company at a maximum of $1.7 billion — less than its last private valuation of $1.9 billion. This means th...
(PDF) The US Has More Immigrant Inventors Than Every Other Country Combined
[Tech]
2017/01/25 10:19
The United States has an economic advantage that is the envy of the world. Inventors flock to the United States, like nowhere else.Recent research on the immigration patterns of high-skilled workers (pdf), shows that, from 2000 to 2010, the US received over 190,000 inventors migrate to the US, while only a little over 10,000 left the country. The US received more inventors combined than every o...
This Ludicrously Lavish Phone Makes Fully Encrypted Calls - Vertu Constellation
[Product]
2017/01/25 10:19
Ludicrously lavish phone maker Vertu has a new, excitingly extravagant Android phone to tempt only the richest and most open-walleted among you. It's called the Constellation.It's hand-built in England -- like all of Vertu's phones -- and is made from anodized aluminium, wrapped in soft leather that's specifically sourced from a "family-run" tannery in Italy.Other fancy features include a sapph...
For Immaculate Undies - BASHI
[Design]
2017/01/25 10:19
Does anyone actually hand-wash their clothes with tags that say you should?! If only there were an appliance that were specially designed for these delicates. That’s the idea behind BASHI.Designed with delicate underwear (seriously!) in mind, BASHI offers an alternative solution to refreshing garments that should otherwise be hand-washed. It utilizes an innovative ultrasonic and water softenin...
(Infographic) Top Programming Languages For Smartphone App Development
[Tech]
2017/01/24 10:34
A recent study revealed that the smartphone sale is going to touch the exceptional mark of 1.5 million by 2017 and this is why a large group of entrepreneurs are adopting Mobile Development as their forte. Apart from this, the launch of iPhone in 2007 added fuel to the fire and mobile apps become an extremely large industry all of a sudden and mobile app development agencies identified the trea...
Auto Industry’s No. 1 Preoccupation : Trump
[Business]
2017/01/24 10:33
Tweets put Big Three on defensive about their commitment to U.S. jobs and investment; rereading ‘The Art of the Deal’Auto executives typically spend the end of the year prepping for product debuts and thinking up ways to spark sales.This time around, Detroit’s chiefs devoted considerable time to trying to figure out how to deal with the nation’s new commander in chief. Union bosses are bein...
(Video) Harvard - A Toolkit for Transformable Materials
[Tech]
2017/01/24 10:33
Harvard researchers have developed a general framework to design reconfigurable metamaterials that is scale independent, meaning it can be applied to everything from meter-scale architectures to reconfigurable nano-scale systems. Metamaterials — materials whose function is determined by structure, not composition — have been designed to bend light and sound, transform from soft to stiff, and...
Winning Diverse Shoppers in a Digital Retail World
[Consumer]
2017/01/24 10:33
For consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers and retailers, knowing how consumers go from wanting to buying along the elusive and increasingly digital path to purchase is critical for two reasons. First, it allows them to measure the market more accurately, so they can make better decisions about where and how to invest for growth. Second, it enables them to engage their customers more effec...
