TREND REPORTS
The Rise Of Bots : A Timeline Of Major VC-Backed Bot Startups
[Investing]
2016/08/11 11:00
15 VC-backed bot startups have raised their first VC rounds so far this year.[click to enlarge]Advances in artificial intelligence algorithms have put chatbots and voice assistants in the spotlight, with investor interest in the space increasing in recent months.Just this month, as of 7/28/2016, 7 bot-focused startups — including stealth startup Begin and recruitment bot Wade & Wendy — ra...
Improved Skincare Via Real-Time Air Pollution Checks - REN Clean Skincare
[Product]
2016/08/11 11:00
REN Clean Skincare’s latest marketing campaign rates local air quality and encourages the use of its new product to protect skin from dirty air.As the largest organ in the body, the skin is an extensive surface prone to damage from polluted city environments. For seasoned commuters used to a near-daily gauntlet of polluted air, REN Clean Skincare’s latest product, the Flash Defense Anti-Pollu...
IBM’s New Microchip to Make Liquid Biopsies Possible
[Tech]
2016/08/11 11:00
IBM scientists have created a microfluidic device that is able to sort microscopic particles by size down to 20 nm. This capability should help separate exosomes from bodily fluids, which may one day become commonly tracked biomarkers of cancer and some other diseases.exosomes-machineExosomes are vesicles, as small as 30 nm, released by cell membranes and which contain genetic and protein infor...
Your Moves Make The Grooves - The Pacer
[Design]
2016/08/11 10:59
Music and dance, as art forms, go hand in hand… but I’ve firmly believed that of the two, music has always had the upper hand. Music sets the stage for the dance to follow. You seldom see dance without rhythm, or music. The Pacer doesn’t alienate dance from music, but it gives movement the ‘first step’.The Pacer is a suit that enables the wearer to convert movement into music. It uses sens...
(PDF) Outlook on Artificial Intelligence in the Enterprise 2016
[Business]
2016/08/10 11:05
Artificial Intelligence Rapidly Adopted By Enterprises, Survey Says. 62% of enterprises will use AI technologies by 2018.Artificial intelligence has replaced big data this year as the most talked about new set of technologies. As with big data five years ago—behind the hype, the confusion generated by an ill-defined term, and the record funding by VC—we are starting to see emerging investment...
(Video) Soylent’s New Creation Is Coffee and Breakfast in a Bottle - Coffiest
[Product]
2016/08/10 11:05
Coffiest is Soylent’s newest creation, the latest in its line of meal-in-a-bottle products. Like regular Soylent, it’s meant to give you a broad nutritional base, basically taking all those parts of the “complete breakfast” you’d see in a 1990s cereal commercial and cramming them into Soylent’s standard 400 kcal bottle.A bottle of Coffiest also has 150mg of caffeine, which isn’t actually...
(PDF) Deloitte : 2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index
[Business]
2016/08/10 11:04
The US innovation ecosystem has evolved significantly over the last century, transitioning from business monopolies dominating R&D early last century, assertive government sponsorship mid-century, to the current environment, within a globally connected world, in which small and big businesses collaborate with universities, venture capitalists, and research institutions to drive the innovati...
Forget Pokémon Go, Marketers - The Larger World of AR Is Here
[Business]
2016/08/10 11:04
5 Ways Marketers Can Respond to Augmented Reality.Regardless of whether Pokémon Go becomes the next Pinterest or is just the Pong of our generation, marketers need to get ready. The game has become a wild hit, with more than 20 million people in the U.S. playing it daily, at twice the usage of Facebook. And it signals five new ways to advertise in a virtual world.First, let's define the new me...
(M&A) The Disruptor Disrupted : Why Monster Had to Sell Itself for $429M
[Investing]
2016/08/10 11:04
During the original dot-com bubble, Monster Worldwide was omnipresent, with Super Bowl ads and a sky-high stock market valuation. That it survived so long, when so many of its bubble brethren went kaput, is something of an achievement.But the announcement today of the sale of the company to human resource giant Randstad for $429 million comes as no surprise. Indeed, The Boston Globe had reporte...
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