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(PDF) BCG - Will Car Subscriptions Revolutionize Auto Sales ?
[Business]
2021/08/12 09:10
For years, automakers have been looking for business models beyond car sales to diversify their profit pools. While pay-per-use models—car sharing, ride hailing, and other mobility modes—have become more common, the alternatives to outright ownership have been limited to short-term rental (not always cheap) or leasing, with typically longer-term commitments and restrictive terms.With the rise...
How Figma Became Design’s Hottest Startup, Valued At $10 Billion
[Investing]
2021/08/12 09:09
As Google Docs did for word processing and GitHub for code, so Dylan Field’s Figma is doing for design. Employees at companies like Netflix, AirBNB, Zoom and Discord are all users.In April, Dylan Field had his craziest day since he skipped out on Brown University to try his hand at startups nearly a decade ago. At the virtual conference of his design software company, Figma, popular with custo...
What’s in Store For Korean IPOs ?
[Investing]
2021/08/12 09:08
IPOs are having a real blockbuster year in South Korea with many prominent ventures looking to raise money through the stock market.After the long-awaited IPO of ecommerce retailer Coupang on the New York Stock Exchange in March exceeded expectations, yesterday’s initial public offering by games developer Krafton saw share prices tumble on the first day of trading.Krafton nevertheless raised t...
Robotic Tuna Uses Variable-Stiffness Tail for More Efficient Swimming - AutoTuna
[Tech]
2021/08/12 09:07
Given that they're such naturally proficient swimmers, the physical structure of fish is increasingly being copied in the design of underwater robots. Scientists have now discovered that by adjusting the stiffness of their tails, those bots can swim much more efficiently.In real fish, the tail muscles can be stiffened up for optimum high-speed sprinting, or loosened off for better low-speed cru...
High-Performance Supplements Made from Discarded Food Waste - Outcast Foods
[Product]
2021/08/12 09:06
Outcast Foods turns discarded fruit and vegetables into nutrient-dense food products.The Canadian food technology company Outcast Foods has recently announced the closing of a CAD $10 million (about €8,48) million investment round to tackle food waste. The round included a CAD $5 million (about €6.7) million from District Ventures Capital. Founded in 2017, Nova Scotia-based Outcast aims to ta...
How Retailers Use Co-Branded Credit Cards to Drive Loyalty as Shoppers Shift Online
[Business]
2021/08/12 09:05
Retail loyalty programs—the most prevalent type in consumers’ wallets—help brands develop lasting customer relationships through easy, accessible, and appealing incentives. Co-brand credit cards—issued as partnerships between major brands, banks, and card networks—have long been a key piece of that puzzle: At a 2019 investor meeting, Best Buy listed its credit card as the second-largest dr...
(Video) New Walabot DIY 2 Stud Finder Brings ‘Superpower’ to iOS and Android Users
[Product]
2021/08/12 09:04
See how the new Walabot DIY 2 visual stud finder exposes everything inside your walls to make home improvement projects faster, easier and safer.One of the first product reviews we did at GearBrain was Walabot DIY Review, a smart stud finder that works in tandem with your Android smartphone to help you find studs, pipes and wires in your walls. It's the perfect do-it-yourself (DIY) tool for hom...
The Polestar 'Trambus' is a Road/Rail Hybrid Designed to Make public Transport Modular
[Design]
2021/08/12 09:03
Just like a train adds extra carriages when it’s running on high-capacity, the Polestar Trambus can expand in length to allow more passengers during an exceptionally busy day.The idea for the Trambus comes from Seoul-based transportation design student Junghyun Kim, who developed the design as an entry into the 2021 Polestar Design Contest. Instead of putting more buses on the road during rush...
(Patent) Apple Pursues a Patent on GUI for Annotating, Measuring, and Modeling Environments
[Tech]
2021/08/11 09:10
U.S. patent application, US20210241483, discloses an annotation placement user interface (UI) that includes a representation of a field of view (FoV) of one or more cameras updated based on changes in the FoV. When the placement UI element is placed over a representation of a measurable physical feature in a physical environment, the appearance of the element changes as per the physical feature...
