TREND REPORTS
Huge VC Investments Into Uber, Airbnb Stifle Competition
[Investing]
2015/02/09 12:09
The jackpot-sized venture capital investments last year reveal a few things about Silicon Valley's tech scene: Uber's IPO seems imminent, investors are convinced Airbnb can't be beaten by a competitor, and unlike years' past, it's now pretty common for a company to nab two huge investments within just a few months.There's a whole lot of money going around, and if your name is Lyft or Instacart,...
Technology May Not Replace Human Translators, But It Will Help Them Work Better
[Tech]
2015/02/09 12:09
TALK into your phone in any of the big European languages and a Google app can now turn your words into a foreign language, either in text form or as an electronic voice. Skype, an internet-telephony service, said recently that it would offer much the same (in English and Spanish only). But claims that such technological marvels will spell the end of old-fashioned translation businesses are pre...
GE Mixes Lasers and Water to Keep Turbine Blades Cool During Drilling
[Tech]
2015/02/09 12:09
GE's new Laser MicroJet drilling holes in high-pressure turbine blades.Turbine blades for use in jet engines need to be made of a hard, unyielding exotic material made to exact specifications, which means the drilling of tiny cooling holes in the blades runs the risk of ruining them. To prevent this from happening, GE is combining the heat of the laser beam with the cooling of the water jet to...
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]
