TREND REPORTS
Banks Are Paying Peanuts on Deposits. Robo Advisers Are Offering Higher Rates
[Investing]
2019/03/11 10:36
Better deals for consumers could hit traditional banks and brokerages, where cash deposits have long generated a significant chunk of revenue.Big banks have continued to dominate deposits in the U.S. despite offering consumers relatively low rates on their money.Automated financial advisers are expanding into the cash-management market with high rates, the latest move by these so-called robo ad...
Disney Builds Massive Solar Facility to Cut Emissions in Half by 2020
[Business]
2019/03/11 10:36
Disney, one of world's largest entertainment companies, doubles down on its environmental plan.- Disney is taking the lead in reducing greenhouse emissions at its facilities.- The company built a giant solar panel installation to power its Florida resort.- Disney plans to cut emissions by 50 percent by the year 2020.You know who's one of the world's leaders in tackling greenhouse gas emissions?...
NOCTUA is a Sexy Mixed Reality Safety Helmet for the Construction Industry
[Design]
2019/03/11 10:35
When you are in the construction business, some of the insights that could help the contractor build better include: the possibility of making quality control more efficient and precise, use of a device that could instruct workers to build in a more intuitive way. Or what if the designer could see what they have rendered in a more realistic way? This is mainly due to the fact that designing, bu...
(Patent) ZTE Patent Shows Vertically Foldable Smartphone in the Works
[Design]
2019/03/10 09:10
With foldable phones attracting all the attention recently, ZTE is keen to be a part of what is possibly the next big thing. The company filed in a patent for a phone that folds vertically similarly to Motorolla’s alleged 2019 RAZR.More interestingly, the patent shows that the device will fold inwards, but not in the middle as the upper half of the flexible screen appears shorter.There is no p...
2019 State of Software Engineers Report
[Tech]
2019/03/10 09:09
Hired survey shows engineers love Python and hate PHP; meanwhile, companies hunt for the elusive Go programmer.Online recruitment firm Hired released a report this week designed to paint a picture of software engineering job seekers in 2018. The Hired report combined data from its job sites around the world with responses to a survey of 700-plus developers around the world. Hired dug into the l...
Worldwide Blockchain Spending Forecast to Reach $2.9 Billion in 2019
[Investing]
2019/03/10 09:08
Worldwide spending on blockchain solutions is forecast to be nearly $2.9 billion in 2019, an increase of 88.7% from the $1.5 billion spent in 2018, according to IDC. IDC expects blockchain spending to grow at a robust pace over the 2018-2022 forecast period with a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 76.0% and total spending of $12.4 billion in 2022."Blockchain is maturing rapidly, a...
Brands Create Brain-Tingling ASMR Campaigns
[Business]
2019/03/10 09:07
Modern youth have given rise to the popularity of ASMR—an entertainment trend that features sounds that are known to trigger brain tingles in those who possess the response—as both a form of stress relief and entertainment, and marketers have taken notice. The following brands have tapped into this growing digital trend by creating campaigns designed to trigger people’s brain tingles, thereb...
Chinese Millennials Are Clicking Up a Storm Buying Asian Property Online - Uoolu
[Investing]
2019/03/10 09:06
Southeast Asia is among popular destinations for online buys. Thailand attracted keen interest from Chinese buyers in 2018.Ice Chen, a 36-year-old bank manager in Beijing, hasn’t been to Bangkok lately, but she just bought two apartments there.The millennial is among younger Chinese flocking to specialist online platforms to buy international real estate.The biggest of the sites, Uoolu.com, re...
Who Is the Sustainable Shopper ?
[Consumer]
2019/03/10 09:05
Sales of sustainable products are up across the board. In the U.S. alone, we expect that U.S. sustainably minded shoppers will spend up to $150 billion on sustainable fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) by 2021.But as sustainability sophistication in both products and consumers advances, the landscape and what sustainability means to individuals becomes increasingly complex. As consumers become m...
