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(PDF) Mckinsey - What Singles Day can Tell Us about How Retail is Changing in China
[Business]
2019/01/10 11:03
Singles Day is the largest single-day sales event globally, but new trends are changing what it means inside and outside of China.This year’s Singles Day (China’s shopping event on November 11, or “Double 11”) clocked in as the biggest shopping spree the world has ever seen. Consumers purchased $45 billion (314 billion renminbi) worth of goods and services in a 24-hour period. To put it in...
Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2019
[Business]
2019/01/10 11:03
From delivery wagons and foldable phones to privacy crackdowns and corporate health tracking, the coming year will make good on some of the tech industry’s biggest promises.There aren’t many ways 2018 could have gone worse for the tech industry. It felt like every week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and friends were apologizing for some major privacy blunder or platform manipulation. Self-driv...
Leading Video and Connected TV Advertising Platform, Innovid Raised $30M from Goldman Sachs
[Investing]
2019/01/10 11:03
Leading Video and Connected TV Advertising Platform Will Use Investment to Connect Publishers and Advertisers, Creating the Only End-to-End CTV Solution.Innovid, the world’s leading video advertising platform, today announced it has secured $30 million in pre-IPO funding from Goldman Sachs’ Private Capital Investing group. Innovid will use the additional capital to further its innovation and...
Q4 Venture-Backed Exits See More Dollars, Fewer Deals
[Investing]
2019/01/10 11:03
If it takes a lot of effort to put money into companies, it takes even more work (plus a fair bit of luck) to get it back out. By definition, there is no public stock market for private company equity, so liquidating one’s stake in a startup isn’t as easy as firing up a stock trading app on your phone and placing a sell order.Like with our Q4 2018 global investment report, which covered the m...
(CES 2019) These 5 Baby Tech Gadgets Rocked The Cradle At CES 2019
[Product]
2019/01/10 11:03
The average middle-income family will spend an estimated $12,000 during baby’s first year, the USDA estimated in 2010. The average baby delivery alone can cost upwards of $11,000. So what’s a few hundred (or thousand) more dollars on some baby tech to ensure you know everything that happens from conception to contraction?Since it's never too soon to digitize your offspring, CES, the consumer...
'Absorbed by Light' Highlights Our Obsession With Staring At Screen
[Design]
2019/01/10 11:02
Design Bridge has launched a topical new light sculpture in the heart of Amsterdam to highlight our obsession with technology and staring at screens. Absorbed by Light was created in collaboration with British artist Gali May Lucas and made especially for this year’s Amsterdam Light Festival.The installation, which sits outside the Hermitage Amsterdam, provides an arresting commentary on “how...
(Infographic) CBD And The Future Of Pain Management
[Business]
2019/01/10 11:02
In the heated battle of CBD vs. Pharma regarding pain relief drugs, more and more people start to explore their options and rely on the benefits of CBD, a natural, non-psychoactive compound derived from the hemp plant.Is CBD the future of pain management? It is showing promise in treating chronic conditions that cause pain. Learn more within this infographic from Everyday Optimal CBD.Infographi...
Tesla’s Life After Hell: 7 Charts Show Musk on Firmer Footing
[Business]
2019/01/09 16:37
One year ago, Tesla Inc. was struggling to turn out a few hundred Model 3 sedans in a week—and then things got worse. Elaborate plans for factory automation had to be scrapped at extraordinary cost, debts piled up and investors were spooked. At the lowest moments of 2018, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said, the company bled $100 million a week. To start 2019, Tesla is turning out more than...
Synapse Raises $6M to Bring Neural Net Weapon Detection to X-Ray Machines
[Investing]
2019/01/09 16:37
With all of the advances made by computer vision tech in the past few years, it might seem a little crazy that so much of the x-ray security equipment being used at sensitive locations is leaning so heavily on human workers to stop weapons from slipping through.Synapse Technology is creating computer vision tech that can interface with existing x-ray machines through a hardware add-on that does...
