TREND REPORTS
Apple Just Became the First $700 Billion Company. Ever.
[Investing]
2015/02/11 11:20
It’s never been done before. Apple’s share climbed 1.9% to close at $122.02, making it the first company to finish a day of trading at a market valuation of more than $700 billion. (Technically it was higher than $710 billion.)That’s the largest nominal value for a company ever. But in inflation-adjusted terms Apple still has a ways to go before it bests the high-water mark set by Microsoft,...
'From Atoms to Bits': A Brilliant Visual History of American Ideas
[Tech]
2015/02/11 11:20
One night in the the spring of 1983, the scientist Kary Mullis was driving with his girlfriend along Highway 128 from Berkeley to Mendocino, California. As Mullis took in the perfume of California buckeyes swinging their blossoms along the road, his mind wandered back to his job as a chemist. He was thinking about human DNA. Specifically, he was thinking about how to replicate human DNA. And it...
Verdant - The Eco Refrigerator Concept
[Design]
2015/02/11 11:20
When buying a fridge, most folks look for one with increased storage space and at the same time it should be efficient enough to reduce energy costs. Verdant ? The Eco Refrigerator is concept that dwells on this and more. It proposes a new experience and reduced expenses related to food consumption and food wastages. It helps create a healthier eco system by integrating a live greenhouse sectio...
ScreenPop, Backed By $3.2M, Lets You Message Friends From Your Phone’s Lockscreen
[Investing]
2015/02/11 11:20
Locket, the makers of a mobile application that brings personalized news and other stories to your Android phone’s lockscreen is out today with a new lockscreen-based messaging application called ScreenPop. The new app, which grew to 15,000 users during two months of beta testing, is designed to allow anyone to send photos, doodles, emoji and more after just a quick swipe on their phone’s scr...
(Infographic) Sensors Shifting Sports
[Tech]
2015/02/11 11:19
Sensor technologies are helping build a new league of athlete. As part of the Internet of Things, these tiny communicating devices are making sports safer, more accurate and more enjoyable for players and fans alike. Jabil looks at this in more detail in the following infographic.Infographic : http://infographicjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Sports+Sensors+Infographic+blog+small+v21.jpg...
Apple Took Home 93% of Mobile Profits Last Quarter
[Investing]
2015/02/10 11:39
Samsung had 9%. Microsoft lost money. The rest were lucky to break even. How did Apple, with 20% of the global smartphone market last quarter, manage to rake off 93% of the profit?[click to enlarge]The math, as Canaccord’s T. Michael Walkley figured it in a note to clients Monday, is pretty simple:Apple sold 74.5 million iPhones at an average selling price of $698Samsung shipped the same numbe...
(PDF) China’s iConsumer 2015 : A Growing Appetite for Change
[Consumer]
2015/02/10 11:39
Chinese e-commerce is developing even faster than previously believed, with Chinese iConsumers embracing online commerce and major retailers rushing to offer ever more sophisticated online services.McKinsey’s iConsumer China 2015 survey tapped into the behaviors and desires of China’s 630 million Internet users, across different city tiers and throughout rural areas (Exhibit 1). The research...
Why Chinese Moms Want American Babies
[Consumer]
2015/02/10 11:39
For many pregnant women, a pre-birth checklist might look like this: assemble the crib, buy extra bibs, pack essentials for the hospital. But for a growing number of expectant Chinese mothers, the list also includes buying a plane ticket to the U.S.Felicia He, 27, shelled out tens of thousands of dollars and planned meticulously before hopping on a plane to give birth in California."I started g...
Advanced Additive Manufacturing Could Enable Planes That are 50% More Fuel Efficient
[Tech]
2015/02/10 11:39
Pratt and Whitney is exploring making airplane engines with fewer parts using additive manufacturing (aka advanced 3D printing).Those parts would need less assembly and be cheaper to make. Frank Preli, chief engineer for materials and process engineering at the company, anticipates the possibility of radical new aircraft designs “like many engines embedded in a wing for ultra-aerodynamic effic...
