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(Infographic) Disrupting The Auto Industry : The Startups That Are Unbundling The Car
[Business]
2016/06/09 11:09
While self-driving tech receives the lion's share of media attention, a host of less-heralded startups are targeting specific pieces of automotive infrastructure or components.[click to enlarge]As startups focused on autonomous driving grab headlines, corporations are jockeying for a competitive edge in auto tech through startup acquisitions and investments, as well as partnerships and internal...
(PDF) ‘On-The-Fly’ 3-D Print System Prints What You Design, As You Design It
[Tech]
2016/06/09 11:09
3-D printing has become a powerful tool for engineers and designers, allowing them to do “rapid prototyping” by creating a physical copy of a proposed design.But what if you decide to make changes? You may have to go back, change the design and print the whole thing again, perhaps more than once. So Cornell researchers have come up with an interactive prototyping system that prints what you a...
Here Are the 10 Most Profitable Companies - Fortune 500
[Investing]
2016/06/09 11:08
Apple, JP Morgan Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway set new records.Tech is booming, oil is tanking, and the banks are back—for now, anyway. Earlier this week, Fortune published the Fortune 500, its annual list of the best in U.S. business. The 10 most profitable of the 500 largest companies form an exceptional cross-section of the economy. Despite a tempestuous 2015 for American business, these re...
The Oculus Bridge Envisions a Future of the Future
[Design]
2016/06/09 11:08
VR is definitely the future of media. It’s a given. We’ve already begun developing VR content, and VR devices are a dime a dozen, but just like the first ever car, or first ever plane, or phone, the VR Devices of today are rudimentary in a way. They mostly just house mobile phones, and the biggies, like the Vive or Rift, still have a long way to in terms of design and functionality. The Oculu...
The All-Glass Office : For The Business with Nothing to Hide
[Design]
2016/06/09 11:08
Dutch firm MVRDV recently completed an unusual project in Hong Kong that involved the gutting of an existing factory interior and its replacement with all-glass office spaces. Featuring glass walls, glass floors, and glass tables, 133 Wai Yip Street is conceived as a new working space for the business with nothing to hide.The project is located in East Kowloon, Hong Kong 133 Wai Yip Street rise...
(Infographic) Most Cyber Attacks Are An Inside Job
[Business]
2016/06/09 11:07
Companies across all industries are experiencing major cyber attacks every year. There's been 53 million online security-related events in 2015 alone, according to a report by IBM.The bigger problem is that most of these attacks are initiated by "insiders," such as employees, business partners, or third party contractors. This chart from Statista, based on data from the IBM report, shows that 6...
(PDF) Mckinsey - How to Partner with The Retailer of The Future
[Business]
2016/06/08 10:52
Retailers have gained an advantage over consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) companies thanks to data-driven insights and low growth among big brands. These fundamental shifts require CPG manufacturers to rethink the way they manage key. accounts. Adopting customer-portfolio management and developing new capabilities in their sales organizations can help CPG companies thrive.There’s no denying that t...
Olympic Athletes will Sport Visa's New Payment Ring in Rio
[Tech]
2016/06/08 10:52
It's sleek and discreet, until you try paying for a Coke by waving your hands in the air (because you clearly just don’t care).For those making their way to this year's Olympic games in Rio this August, Visa will be the only card accepted at official venues -- a pretty sweet deal for the payment provider. But, rather than be satisfied with exclusive access to the wallets of a half million tour...
Helpshift Raises $23M to Automate Customer Support with Chatbots
[Investing]
2016/06/08 10:52
Helpshift has made it easy for companies to deal with millions of customer support engagements on mobile devices. Now the company has raised a $23 million venture funding round to fuel its in-app customer support for the masses. And one way it will do that is by creating chatbots that can help solve customer support questions automatically.San Francisco-based Helpshift was able to raise the rou...
(Video) Tiny 'Metalens' Could Bring SLR Camera Quality to Your Phone
[Tech]
2016/06/08 10:52
Harvard's metalens relies on domino-shaped elements that direct light to compose an image.[Harvard's metalens relies on domino-shaped elements that direct light to compose an image.]A new grain-of-sand-sized lens could one day compete with those enormous DSLR lenses to create sharp pictures.A group of scientists at Harvard University debuted their new "metalens" in Science last week, and hope i...
(Video) Next-Generation 3D Scanner for Foot Orthotics - CryoScan3D
[Product]
2016/06/08 10:52
Fuel3D has unveiled their very first custom enterprise solution which takes the form of the new CryoScan3D Foot Scanner which has been created for foot orthotics. The Fuel3D foot scanner should make designing customised orthotics much easier and faster by providing a more accurate 3D scan of the person’s foot. John Stimpson, President of Cryos Technologies explains a little more about the new...
Conversable Launches Conversational Commerce Flatform for Facebook, Twitter and SMS
[Business]
2016/06/08 10:51
One startup, Conversable, which launches today with an enterprise SaaS offering, aims to help usher in this new era for ecommerce across multiple messaging platforms, SMS, and Twitter.Conversational commerce is coming. Kleiner Perkins’ Mary Meeker declared it “messaging’s secret sauce” in this year’s Internet Trends report. Ernst & Young’s David Nichols sees it as the next evolution b...
