TREND REPORTS
(Infographic) The History of Commerce - From Cattle to Bitcoin
[Business]
2015/05/26 11:10
Forget about ecommerce for a moment! Imagine trading one of your prized cattle for a piece of land to raise your family in 7000 BC. That’s how it was done back then. Boy how times have changed. Now think about the first ATM in 1972, and how remarkable it was for people to walk up to a magical machine that spewed out physical cash after a few button clicks.The history of ecommerce is truly amaz...
Mobile Valuations Split as Investments and Exits Diverge
[Investing]
2015/05/26 11:09
Mobile investment is growing as quickly as mobile usage and revenue, with $14 billion invested in Q1 2015, up 120 percent compared to Q1 2014 (650 percent higher than Q1 2012). That’s a bull market in anybody’s terms.While the mobile exit market (M&As and IPOs) outpaced investment market growth up to Q2 2014, it has been trending downwards since the mobile IPO fiesta of Q3 2013 to Q2 2014...
(Video) Selfie Sticks Endanger 'Egotastic Narc-Artists,' Warns Pizza Hut PSA
[Business]
2015/05/26 11:09
Selfie sticks are popping up everywhere, and a new fake public service announcement shows why that's a bad thing for your ego -- and basically everyone and everything around you.A new public service announcement on YouTube warns of a far greater danger than the world has ever faced -- selfie sticks.Pizza Hut, which is trying to get you to buy some new kind of pizza it's selling, posted the funn...
The World's First 3D Fabric Printer - Electroloom
[Tech]
2015/05/26 11:08
Inspired by 3D printers, the idea came from a gang of entrepreneurs after working at California Polytechnic State University. This unique process of creating fabric from scratch is called electrospinning, "an electrospinning process to convert liquid solutions into solid fibers which are then deposited onto a 3D mold. We call this process Field Guided Fabrication, or FGF. Essentially, an intern...
The Future is Mobile and Apps, Except That it isn't.
[Business]
2015/05/26 11:07
There are two charts that capture a lot of the way we think about mobile today. In the first, we see that mobile devices are approaching a majority of traffic, and in the second, that a large proportion of all web traffic (a majority in the USA in this instance) and the vast majority of mobile traffic is coming from apps rather than the web. However, if you're not careful you can get quite the...
(Video) Supermarket's "Indoor Sat-Nav" Guides Shoppers to Discounts
[Tech]
2015/05/26 11:06
A newly-refurbished Carrefour hypermarket in Lille, France, has had its fluorescent lighting replaced with LED fixtures containing Philips Visible Light Communication technologyA supermarket in France has become the first in the world to install an "indoor positioning system" created by Philips. The LED-based technology acts like a sat-nav for shoppers, providing in-store directions to shopping...
Food & Board : Edible Billboards Offers Branded Experiences
[Business]
2015/05/26 11:04
Eighty percent of companies plan to increase their digital marketing budgets over the next 12 to 18 months, according to a study released earlier this year. While digital persists as the central venue for brands looking to connect with Millennials, experiential efforts are still important, as they provide compelling shareable content among consumers. Lately, food, beverage and alcohol brands ar...
(Video) Sweden's 'Hemnet Home' Crowdsourced from 200 Million Web Searches
[Design]
2015/05/26 11:03
If you adore box-like, red houses with open kitchens and around 1,200 square feet of space, guess what! You're an average Swede, apparently. Real estate site Hemnet and architects Tham & Videgård came up with the design by crowdsourcing preferences for size, number of rooms and floors, using 200 million clicks on 86,000 properties. "The result is partly a mathematical translation of the st...
(PDF) BCG - Winning at Omnichannel Pricing
[Business]
2015/05/25 11:10
Maximizing Growth While Protecting Margins.Ever since the world’s second merchant set up shop to compete with the first, pricing has bedeviled retailers. The Internet has compounded the complexity by providing consumers nearly complete transparency across retailers, regions, and even national borders, as well as access to any “store” anywhere, anytime. Successive technological innovations, s...
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