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(PDF) BCG - Gearing Up for the New Era of China’s Outbound M&A
[Investing]
2015/10/04 11:09
At first glance, Chinese companies would appear to be enjoying a golden age of deal making: the outbound M&A market flourished from 2004 through 2014, with deal value growing at a compound annual rate of as much as 35 percent, and deal volume expanding at a compound annual rate of 9.5 percent. In 2014 alone, Chinese companies made 154 outbound M&A deals, with a total deal value of $26.1...
Forget CDs - Streaming Music Now Makes More Money for the U.S. Record Industry
[Business]
2015/10/04 11:08
Streaming is no longer the future of the music industry. It's the present.According to RIAA statistics compiled here by Statista, streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music generated $1.028 billion in sales for the U.S. music industry in the first half of 2014, up 23% from last year. That's still behind digital downloads, but that portion of the industry is shrinking — down 4% from the fi...
Selfies and Ethically Sourced Clothes Come Together in Fashion Revolution
[Business]
2015/10/04 11:07
In an effort to improve harsh working circumstances in clothing factories, Fashion World created the #WhoMadeMyClothes initiative.Have you ever stopped to wonder who made your clothes and where they came from? Most people probably haven’t – it’s just not something people normally think about. But all that is changing with the Fashion Revolution. A team of fashion lovers and conservationists...
What It Means to be Great
[Product]
2015/10/04 11:06
What makes a product great? I struggle with this question because being great is not just being better than good. Greatness is to goodness as wisdom is to smarts. Just like getting smarter and smarter may never make you wise, getting better and better does not mean ever becoming great.Greatness is transcendental. It’s hard to pin down. It inspires debate. It divides as much as it unites. It cr...
Percko - Wear It and Get Perfect Posture
[Product]
2015/10/04 11:05
Percko is an undershirt that teaches you how to have the right posture.On average we sit for over 9 hours a day, 365 days a year and if we are being honest, it’s hard to avoid slouching. But did you know that bad posture can lead to back pain?Back pain is the second most common reason people visit family doctors. So we’ve invented something that helps correct poor posture whether you're stand...
The Next iPhones Might Be Running on Mushroom Power
[Tech]
2015/10/04 11:04
Researchers from the University of California – Riverside are looking at Portobello fungi as our future batteries.A team of researchers from the University of California – Riverside has replaced an expensive battery component with cheap, readily available Portobello mushroom. Requiring less harmful chemicals to make and far friendlier to the environment than the current carbon sheets they rep...
(Video) Envision a Blend of Television and the Internet Triggered by Fingerprints
[Design]
2015/10/04 11:03
Renan Feltri's minimalist A New TV design promises a television built around stories, not channels.There is little doubt left that as Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Go, and other streaming services dominate the media marketplace, traditional television service as we know it will need a complete makeover in order to remain relevant. The highly anticipated Apple TV provides one possible solution for...
(Video) Forget Blades, The Skarp Laser Razor Wants You to Shave with Lasers
[Product]
2015/10/01 11:09
2 Swedes are trying to conquer that problem with technology, and have built a consumer razor that shaves your hair with an actual laser.Morgan Gustavsson invented the IPL (Intense Pulse Light) laser in 1989, which is still a popular method of hair removal treatment. He always wanted to create a laser that could be brought to bear on the everyday shaving market, but there was a problem, he write...
The iPhone 6s Is off to a Flying Start
[Product]
2015/10/01 11:09
Three days after the official launch of the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus last Friday, Apple announced that the new models have set yet another launch record. With more than 13 million units sold in three days, the new models beat last year's record when 10 million units of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus had been sold. However, it was the first time that China was included in Apple's initial iPhone rollou...
