Would you be comfortable with a Walmart employee wandering into your home and restocking your fridge? What if you could watch on as they did it? The retail giant is at least looking to test out this possibly unnecessary concept through a new partnership with smart home security company August.The idea of coming home from work to a fully-stocked fridge and pantry does sound nice, but a lot of pe...

When Apple launched the iPhone 7 and announced that it was dropping the headphone jack, controversy erupted and criticism rolled in from consumers and industry experts alike.The fact that people were willing to believe drilling a hole in the base of their expensive new iPhone was a solution shows just how hard this change hit.Regardless, one year on Apple has now launched the iPhone 8, iPhone 8...

When is the last time you purchased a digital copy of a song or an album from an online retailer like iTunes or Amazon? If you’re like many Americans, it’s possible it’s been a few years since you bought anything.According to a report published recently by the RIAA (the Recording Industry Association of America) evaluating the state of the music industry at 2017’s halfway point, paid digita...

Try on the Bud Light X KIBL collection for size. It’s not the kind of branded clothing that gets shot out of a T-shirt cannon at sporting events, but it’s mighty close.Bud Light, in a preview it swears is not a joke, has unveiled a line of “leisurewear” during London Fashion Week that features bright-blue logo-adorned kimonos, tube socks, “slider” shower shoes and scarves that are “spira...

This report is based upon insights unearthed from a global consumer survey.The research was conducted by Northstar Research Partners Ltd on behalf of ARM. Northstar are an independent research agency working out of London.Globally, 3,938 consumers were interviewed through an online survey. These interviews fall out across regions and markets as above. All respondents who took part in the survey...

“You’ve come a long way baby,” was the slogan long used by the Philip Morris brand Virginia Slims when it started marketing cigarettes to women in the late 1960s. Since then the company has morphed several times, with Altria focusing on the U.S. market while Philip Morris International (PMI) markets its products in roughly 180 countries.Now PMI says it has come a long way as it seeks to tran...

Ikea today kicks off the marketing campaign for its new augmented reality app, Ikea Place, which will be available from today to help customers with their interior design.Ikea Place was officially announced at the Apple Developers Conference last week. It's built on Apple's ARKit technology and allows people to virtually "place" Ikea products into their spaces. The app automatically scales prod...

For under a dime and with just a whisker of electricity, devices could send data throughout a building.Researchers at the University of Washington led by Shyam Gollakota, one of our 35 Innovators Under 35 in 2014, have built a new chip that uses reflected radio signals to efficiently transmit data over great distances.The chip uses a technique called long-range backscatter to communicate with o...

For consumer goods companies looking to improve bottom-line growth, the top line is the critical place to focus.In the past three years, more than two-thirds of revenue growth—and an even bigger share of profit growth—among the top 50 global fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies has come from pricing and mix rather than from volume increases. FMCG companies are operating in an increasin...

Electric scooter maker Gogoro has closed a massive $300 million Series C round to expand its service.The company has sold scooters in its native Taiwan since 2015, and it Europe it offers them on a short-term rental basis. That’s in Berlin, Germany, and Paris, France, where Gogoro provides a combined 1,600 scooters for an on-demand sharing service that’s operated by Bosch subsidiary Coup.Gogo...