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(Infographic) Shopping Cart Abandonment : E-Commerce Tips to Increase Sales
[Consumer]
2016/10/25 11:02
$4 trillion dollars of merchandise is abandoned in shopping carts every year. Using follow up texts, ad retargeting and a streamlined checkout process you can increase recovered purchases and help lure shoppers back to websites to complete their purchase. Minimizing steps, providing multiple payment options and using exit popups can help streamline the checkout process and reduce shopping cart...
Airbus Wants to Build a Self-Flying Taxi Called Vahana
[Design]
2016/10/24 11:03
Apparently, Vahana is a Sanskrit word that "denotes the being, typically an animal or mythical entity, a particular Hindu deity is said to use as a vehicle." Put more simply, Vahana is a vehicle fit for a god. Or, if you're A3 (that's A Cubed), a Silicon Valley-based subsidiary of Airbus, Vahana is the name of a fully electric autonomous vehicle. And not just any autonomous vehicle – this is a...
(Patent) Amazon Patents Personal Mini Drones to Locate Lost Cars or Kids
[Tech]
2016/10/24 10:39
Amazon has been awarded a patent for a tiny personal assistant drone, which can be carried around with a user and sent off via voice commands to perform autonomous functions.Imagine you're trying to find your car in a crowded parking lot. Rather than let frustration take hold, you simply say "locate car" and a tiny drone perched on your shoulder flies off and guides you to it. Amazon has been a...
(Infographic) The Robo-Advisor Arms Race
[Investing]
2016/10/24 10:39
It was going to happen sooner or later.When they launched roughly five years ago, tech-driven companies such as Betterment or Wealthfront had the audacious and laudable goal of taking on the incumbents of the gargantuan wealth management industry. Many traditional wealth managers were skeptical of portfolios being driven by artificial intelligence, and adopted a “wait and see” approach. If it...
(PDF) Rovables : Miniature On-Body Robots as Mobile Wearables
[Tech]
2016/10/24 10:39
A couple of Rovables make their way along a sleeve.If you don't like the thought of bugs crawling all over you, then you might not like one possible direction in which the field of wearable electronics is heading. Researchers from MIT and Stanford University recently showcased their new Rovables robots, which are tiny devices that roam up and down a person's clothing – and yes, that's as the c...
(Infographic) Unicorn Hunters : These Investors Have Backed The Most Billion-Dollar Companies
[Investing]
2016/10/24 10:39
SV Angel has the most early-stage investments in billion-dollar companies, followed by Sequoia.[click to enlarge]There are 176 private unicorn companies globally valued at a billion dollars or more as of 10/20/16, according to our unicorn tracker. We used CB Insights data to update our analysis on which investors have backed the most unicorns and which are in the best position to capitalize sho...
Drone Receives Wireless Power, On The Fly
[Tech]
2016/10/24 10:38
The Imperial College drone, flying without a battery or tether.Given that the battery life of most multicopter drones typically doesn't exceed 30 minutes of flight time per charge, there are many tasks that they simply can't perform. Feeding them power through a hard-wired tether is one option, although that only works for applications where they're hovering in place. Scientists at Imperial Col...
Fueled by the Audience Network, Facebook Advertisers Saw Higher Q3 Spends & Returns
[Business]
2016/10/24 10:38
A new report from social ad automation company Nanigans shows substantial growth in both YoY Facebook ad spend and on the overall Return on Ad Spend (ROAS). In Q3 2016, the average increase in ad spend was +249 percent YoY, while the average ROAS was also up 26 percent from 2015.One of the main drivers of this increase was Facebook’s expanded Audience Network. In Q2 2016, that allowed brands t...
How Canadians' Dietary Choices Are Influencing Food Purchases
[Consumer]
2016/10/24 10:36
Consumers today are taking an active role in managing their health, which includes following proper nutrition guidelines to prevent and control health issues. These healthy attitudes are having an impact on food trends, providing Canadians with a multitude of options to help them achieve their goals, including minimizing future health problems (82%) and losing weight (69%). Canadians’ shifting...
(PDF) Mckinsey - How Customer Demands Are Reshaping Last-Mile Delivery
[Business]
2016/10/23 11:10
The last mile is seeing disruption from new business models that address customer demand for ever-faster delivery, as well as new technologies such as drones and autonomous ground vehicles.Last-mile delivery, especially of parcels, has recently received lots of attention in the media and from investors. The cost of global parcel delivery, excluding pickup, line-haul, and sorting, amounts to abo...
(Infographic) The Top 22 Celebrity Startup Investors And Their Investments
[Investing]
2016/10/23 11:09
A list of the top 22 most active celebrity startup investors since 2007, including Shark Tank vets, quarterbacks, and rappers.Celebrities are making investments in private tech companies as early-stage angel backers, and also participating in later-stage growth rounds. Some stars have even formed their own venture capital funds which have LPs or limited partners (i.e., pension funds, university...
L’Oréal Wants To Help Visually Impaired Women Apply Makeup
[Business]
2016/10/23 11:08
The cosmetics brand has developed a series of audio tutorials for Brazilian consumers with reduced sight.Every woman deserves to feel beautiful, which is why L’Oréal Brazil came up with a new project for its Maybelline New York Brand that will help visually impaired women learn about self-makeup. The project is called Audio Makeup, a platform where lessons are taught via audio narrated classe...
