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The Chart That Shows Why ‘Facebook at Work’ Might Actually Work
[Consumer]
2015/02/09 12:08
Facebook is testing a new product for the workplace, Facebook at Work?basically a second Facebook that you can only use with coworkers. It’s designed for communicating and collaborating on work projects, and nothing bleeds over to your personal Facebook account.Will it catch on?One factor in Facebook’s favor: Millions of people are already using Facebook at the office, either for work or to g...
Tiny Medical Implant Makes You Cry to Defeat Dry Eye
[Tech]
2015/02/09 12:08
Making people cry is not a very nice thing to do, unless those people suffer from chronic eyeball dryness.Then you’re doing them a favor. Scientists at Stanford-backed Oculeve have created a tiny implantable device that can do just that ? stimulate tear production at the push of a button. This device has the potential to help more than 20 million Americans who suffer from a lack of natural tea...
Goetz Schrader Envisions Sustainable Living on Wind Pecker Machines
[Design]
2015/02/09 12:08
‘Wind Pecker’ is a project by german designer goetz schrader that envisions the concept of inhabiting wind turbine parks. the design arose out of an increased awareness to the appearance of large wind turbine structures on both the sea and land. wanting to transform the large energy sources into something more than just functional machines, they are rendered as habitable dwellings. the buildi...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Strategic Choices for Banks in the Digital Age
[Business]
2015/02/08 11:10
Consumers around the world are quickly adopting digital banking. Incumbents only have a short period to adjust to this new reality or risk becoming obsolete.If the last epoch in retail banking was defined by a boom-to-bust expansion of consumer credit, the current one will be defined by digital. This will include rapid innovation in payments and the broader transformation in systems enabled by...
(Video) McDonald's Behavioral Economics: Random Rewards Work Better
[Business]
2015/02/08 11:09
Super Bowl Advertisers Score with Ads that Tap Into How Consumers' Brains Work.Nowhere is the phrase Monday morning quarterback more on point than the Monday after the Super Bowl. While most sports fans are debating why Russell Wilson passed from the one-yard line, those of us whose favorite game is marketing are trying to figure out what certain brands were thinking in their choice of Super Bo...
(Infographic) The Salesforce Economy
[Business]
2015/02/08 11:08
Salesforce is a global powerhouse. This infographic displays the Salesforce economy, including the company’s growth, global reach, timeline and more. [click to enlarge]Infographic : https://go.pardot.com/l/69822/2015-02-02/7rf/69822/1120/Salesforce_Infographic.pdf[outboxsystems]
Smartphone Dongle Detects HIV and Syphilis Markers in 15 Minutes
[Tech]
2015/02/08 11:07
Scientists have developed a smartphone accessory capable of detecting multiple disease markers within 15 minutes.That smartphones have evolved to be capable of much more than making and receiving calls isn't news to anyone, but work being done to refashion them as medical diagnostics tools is proving to be a very promising area of mobile innovation. The latest big-picture idea to emerge in this...
The Tablet Hype Has Officially Died Down
[Business]
2015/02/08 11:06
The tablet hype is officially over. In the fourth quarter of 2014, worldwide tablet shipments declined for the first time since Apple introduced the iPad in 2010. According to numbers released by IDC earlier this week, Apple and its peers shipped 76.1 million units between October and December compared to 78.6 million devices in the previous year’s holiday quarter. Among the five biggest table...
Picsart, a Mobile Photo Editing App Has Closed $10M in Funding from Sequoia Capital
[Investing]
2015/02/08 11:05
This is the first outside investment that Picsart has taken, having bootstrapped itself to profitability after being founded in Armenia, an Eastern European country that isn’t exactly well-known for birthing tech startups.Picsart ? which has been downloaded over 200 million times to date ? differentiates itself from Instagram, which Sequoia invested in, and others by placing emphasis on its ph...
