No.1 Meditation Appl Calm Raises $27M in Series A Funding Led By Insight Venture Partners
[Investing]
2018/07/03 14:51
Apple’s 2017 iPhone App of the Year Brings Mental Fitness to 26 Million and Counting.Calm, the No. 1 app for meditation, mindfulness and sleep, announced that it has raised $27 million in Series A funding at a $250 million pre-money valuation. The funding round is led by Insight Venture Partners with participation from Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures and singer Harry Styles. Prior to this rou...
Siri Remains The Most Used Mobile Voice Assistant
[Business]
2018/07/03 14:51
Even though Android is the dominant operating system on the smartphone market, Apple’s Siri leads the U.S. market for voice assistants on mobile phones with 45.65 percent. Even though available on most Android devices, the Google Assistant only has a market share of 28.9 percent while Samsung’s Bixby even ranks below Amazon’s Alexa, a voice assistant which is not native to any Smartphone.[st...
New York to Boston in 36 minutes thanks to VTOL air taxi, says Transcend Air
[Product]
2018/07/03 14:50
The Transcend Air Corporation has announced the development of the Vy, a tilt-wing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) six-seater aircraft designed to ferry people in and out of cities. Simultaneously, the company has said it will launch an air taxi-style commuter service to operate the aircraft, which it hopes to have up in the air in 2024.The Vy pivots from an aircraft capable of helicopter-...
The iPhone IQ
[Design]
2018/07/03 14:47
As much as I love paying 1000s of dollars in glass repair over the years (who doesn’t?), I, like many an Apple fanboy, have hoped to see a swing back to the metal back of yesteryear. Steel Drake’s proposal for the next-gen iPhone, dubbed the iPhone IQ, not only implements the robust frame and body we’ve been missing, but its shape is ergonomically adapted for the palm and harkens back to the...
(PDF) Deloitte - Using 3D Scanning to Drive Supply Chain Innovation
[Business]
2018/07/02 11:28
3D scanning technology is revolutionizing the way we design, model, and visualize real-world environments and objects. Organizations can leverage these advancements to yield benefits in many industries and drive flexibility, efficiency and cost savings across the supply chain lifecycle.3D scanning is changing how we view, understand, and interpret the tangible world around us. By absorbing...
(Video) ADcase Springs Into Action to Save Your Dropped iPhone
[Product]
2018/07/02 11:28
Inventor Philip Frenzel has been awarded first place in Germany's nationwide Mechatronics Prize 2018 for his ADcase.Dropping your smartphone is never a good thing. That's why people have experimented with protective measures such as auto-deploying airbags. The spring-loaded ADcase, however, looks like it could be a much more practical solution – and you may soon be able to buy one.The award-wi...
Top 50 Venture Capital Firms Investing in Blockchain Companies
[Investing]
2018/07/02 11:27
The short answer is these are the 50 most important and influential venture capital companies investing in blockchain and cryptocurrency companies. They are ranked according to four key criteria: value of total blockchain investments, total number of blockchain investments, length of blockchain investment experience, and level of investment activity in the last 12 months.Be sure to scroll to th...
Meet the 21-Year-Old CEO Revolutionizing Luxury Air Travel - Aura
[Business]
2018/07/02 11:27
As a boy, Zander Futernick always dreamed of becoming a pilot. For his eighth birthday, his father built him a little airport with a concourse, replete with model airplanes—and when they traveled, he would venture into the cockpit at the end of each flight. “I’d sit in the seat and they’d give me my wings,” he recalls.Later he developed an obsession with flight simulators—and as a teen he...
(Infographic) Amazon’s Biggest Acquisitions
[Investing]
2018/07/02 11:27
With Amazon upping the size of its M&A deals and increasing its acquisition activity, we looked at its all-time largest deals in a visual timeline.As we discovered in our analysis of Amazon’s M&A strategy, Amazon has traditionally been a conservative buyer. Despite the historic Whole Foods mega-acquisition ($13.7B) as well as a few big-name buys like shoe retailer Zappos ($1.2B, 2009)...
IKEA Will Take Back Your Old Furniture, Resell It and Give You The Money
[Business]
2018/07/02 11:27
In some ways there is nothing new about buying second-hand furniture - antique stores have done it for centuries. And yet the idea that a leading modern furniture shop - IKEA in Sydney, to be precise - will re-sell old furniture seems radical.This demonstrates how much work still needs to be done in order to shift the attitude of both consumers and companies towards embracing a circular economy...
A Pendant for Purifying - AirFlow
[Design]
2018/07/02 11:27
Our light fixtures tend to exist out in the open amongst the very air we breathe, so why shouldn’t they also clean it for us?! That’s the idea behind Airflow, a modern pendant-style lighting solution that purifies as it illuminates.Right at home in the kitchen, it can also be used as a range hood to absorb smoke and steam particles released from cooking. The result is better smelling, better...
Monthly Trend Report - July. 2018 Edition
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2018/07/02 09:22
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