TREND REPORTS
Sequoia Leads $40M Investment in Mobile Messaging Startup Attentive
[Investing]
2019/08/19 11:42
Attentive, a startup helping retailers personalize their mobile messages, is announcing that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding.The startup was founded by Brian Long and Andrew Jones, who sold their previous startup TapCommerce to Twitter. When they announced Attentive’s $13 million Series A last year, Long told me the startup is all about helping retailers find better ways to commu...
Chinese Smartphone Brands Take 62% of Southeast Asia’s 30.7 Million Shipments
[Business]
2019/08/19 11:42
The Southeast Asian smartphone market grew modestly in Q2 2019, by 2% year on year, with 30.7 million units shipped during the quarter, reversing several quarters of decline. Southeast Asia did better than other parts of Asia, and Greater China, which recorded a year-on-year decline. Samsung shipped 7.7 million units, returning to growth of 5%, after three-quarters of decline. Close behind was...
Who Needs a Display When This Keyboard Projects Your Screen Directly on Your Retina ?
[Design]
2019/08/19 11:41
We love seeing concepts that challenge our perception of the future of technology by forcing us to rethink how we will one day interact with devices. Aura certainly achieves this, and it does so by transforming the humble laptop into an ultra-portable, productivity station!So, you may be asking yourself how it functions without a screen, well that’s all down to the rather clever Eye-tracking I...
(PDF) Deloitte's - 2019 Global Automotive Supplier Study
[Business]
2019/08/18 09:10
Caution ahead: Transformation and disruption for automotive suppliers.Disruptive trends are changing the global automotive supplier landscape. To thrive and remain in business, suppliers need to shift gears and decide on which part of their business they want to expand, defend, and pivot.FOR automakers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and suppliers alike, the last decade has been fra...
Atolla's Skin Health System Driven by Machine Learning is Designed for You and Only You
[Product]
2019/08/18 09:09
It turns out creating an ultra-customized, sustainably-minded skincare product is just as complicated as it sounds.After a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2018, Atolla—a customized skincare company born and bred at MIT—has launched its first product. The Atolla Skin Health System is a monthly subscription model that costs $45 a month. The Atolla subscription includes a skin analysis kit, a...
(Paper) Amazing AI Automatically Turns You Into an Anime Character - U-GAT-IT
[Tech]
2019/08/18 09:08
South Korean Game Developer’s AI Turns Your Selfie Into an Anime Face.Many anime and cartoon fans use anime profile pictures to represent themselves in a virtual world of social media, games and online forums. Now, such avatars can be personalized. Last month a team of South Korean researchers proposed a method that uses unsupervised image translation to transform a simple selfie into a classi...
The Walton Family Gets $100M Richer Every Single Day
[Investing]
2019/08/18 09:07
The family behind Walmart tops the Bloomberg list of the world’s wealthiest families. In the hour that it takes a new Walmart employee to earn the $11 starting wage, the family that owns the retail giant has banked $4 million.In fact, the third-generation heirs of Walmart WMT, +2.18% founder Sam Walton have amassed a $191 billion fortune to top Bloomberg’s list of the richest families in the...
Scoop Raises $60M for Carpool Service
[Investing]
2019/08/18 09:06
Americans inordinately drive to work. In point of fact, 76.4% of U.S. workers report commuting to the office alone, compared with the just 5.2% who say they take mass transit. Even in New York City, with its extensive transit and rail system and high levels of congestion, more than half of people get to their workplace by car.Brothers Rob and Jon Sadow cofounded Scoop four years ago to shift th...
An Energy-Efficient Cooling System Based on Ancient Technology - SkyCool
[Tech]
2019/08/18 09:05
At Stanford University, SkyCool’s co-founders Shanhui Fan, Eli Goldstein and Aaswath Raman invented a film-like material that facilitates the radiative cooling process. The development of radiative cooling systems could eventually have a major impact on global energy consumptionSpotted: California-based company SkyCool is developing a cooling system with roots going back hundreds of years to t...
