TREND REPORTS
(Video) Lego X That Turns Your Lego Masterpiece Into a Digital Building
[Product]
2015/02/16 11:07
It’s the frustration of many a designer: You grow up sketching and making with your hands, only to find yourself 20 years later spending the day in front of a glowing screen. The reality is, building in 3-D requires doing a lot of 2-D work first. Much of this is for practicality’s sake; in the early stages of design, it makes little sense to build a physical model when you can so easily revis...
(Video) Thermal Vision Microwave Shows When Your Food is Cooked Just Right
[Tech]
2015/02/16 11:06
As your food moves from cold to hot, it morphs from blue, to red, and to white hot when it's time to pull it out.For all the time they save us in food preparation, burnt tongues and frozen centers are an all too common occurrence when dealing with microwaves. But former NASA engineer-turned-inventor Mark Rober reckons nuking our food shouldn't involve so much guesswork. His take on the everyday...
(Video) LED-Embedded Smart Rope by Tangram Factory Communicates with Phones
[Product]
2015/02/16 11:05
based out of seoul and new jersey, multi-disciplinary studio tangram factory have unveiled ‘smart rope’ ahead of their official kickstarter campaign. the workout accessory is an LED-embedded jump rope that communicates with your smartphone ? the first active fitness device for the company’s ‘smart gym’ platform, designed around creating a user experience to incorporate active workout data....
Doctor Search Site Practo Lands $30M For Aggressive Growth In India
[Investing]
2015/02/16 11:03
Practo, an Indian startup that provides a search portal matching doctors with patients and other digital services for practices, has closed a $30 million Series B round to expand its services in India and other emerging markets.The funding was led by existing investor Sequoia Capital with participation from Matrix Partners. Bangalore-based Practo raised $4.6 million in 2012, and closed a seed r...
(PDF) BCG - Africa Blazes a Trail in Mobile Money
[Business]
2015/02/15 11:10
Time for Banks and Mobile Operators to Devise Strategies.People in Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast, and Madagascar can use a service called Orange Money to send and receive money through their mobile phones. Likewise, mobile phones can be used to pay insurance premiums in Ghana and Nigeria, to prepay for electricity in Rwanda, and to undertake debit card transactions in Zambia and South Africa.And p...
Nordstrom is Consumers’ Favorite Fashion Retailer
[Consumer]
2015/02/15 11:09
Nordstrom is Consumers’ Favorite Fashion Retailer, According to Market Force Study Foot Locker tops list as favorite shoe store Findings from a national consumer study by Market Force Information, a worldwide leader in customer intelligence solutions, revealed that Nordstrom is consumers’ favorite fashion retailer for the third consecutive year, followed by Kohl’s, T.J. Maxx, Macy’s and Dil...
80% of All Mobile Data is Consumed by Just 10% of Users
[Consumer]
2015/02/15 11:08
Cisco Systems this week offered some insight into just how much mobile data the world is consuming ? 2.5 exabytes a month, to be exact ? and now a new report from Amdocs sheds a little light on who among those billions of users is consuming the most. Amdocs found that just 10 percent of mobile users are consuming 80 percent of the world’s mobile data traffic.Amdocs, a telecom equipment maker t...
Jet.com Secures a $600M Valuation ? Before It’s Even Launched a Site
[Investing]
2015/02/15 11:07
Cue the “bubble” chatter. Jet.com, which plans to launch an online e-commerce marketplace, has raised a $140 million convertible note that gives the company a reported post-money valuation of $600 million.And it hasn’t even launched its site yet. All there is at Jet.com right now is a big “coming soon” banner, a glowing quote from Businessweek, and a place to enter your email address so yo...
How GrubHub Seamless Will Capture a Bigger Bite of the $70B Takeout Market
[Business]
2015/02/15 11:06
GrubHub Seamless has already captured 20% of the $9 billion market for online ordering from restaurants ? but now it wants to get into the delivery business, too.Based on company estimates charted for us by BI Intelligence, Americans spend only $9 billion a year ordering food from restaurants online, which is just a fraction of the $70 billion market for food takeout and delivery. Of that $9 bi...
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