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(Infographic) The Influencer Marketing Revolution
[Business]
2018/08/06 10:43
With influencer marketing, you can go big (celebrities, rich & famous) or you can go small (industry experts, bloggers, and niche-market personalities).Whatever option you choose, influencer marketing can impact on your business significantly. The following infographic from One Productions looks at the differences between macro and micro-influencers, and the benefits of influencer marketing...
(Patent) Google’s New Facial Recognition Patent Wants To Stalk Your Social Media
[Tech]
2018/08/05 09:10
A new Google patent details a system that would use social networks to identify faces in images.The tech giant’s latest facial recognition patent highlights an image search system that incorporates information from social networks — potentially including Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, online blogs, and more — to help identify who people are.On July 24, 2018, the US Patent & Trademarks Office...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Who’s Shopping Where ? The Power of Geospatial Analytics in Omnichannel Retail
[Business]
2018/08/05 09:09
Using advanced geospatial analytics, retailers can now quantify the true economic value of each of their stores across channels—and they’re uncovering surprising insights.The wave of store closures across the US retail sector continues. In 2017 alone, more than 7,000 stores went dark, unable to withstand consumers’ rapid migration to e-commerce, the explosive growth of direct-to-consumer bra...
(Video) Samsung Flex 2020 Future Smartphone with Flexible Display
[Design]
2018/08/05 09:08
Technology, which a few years ago seemed fantastic, will soon become a reality. Several advanced manufacturers are already working on this. Lenovo and Nokia tried that at some point, but they haven’t gone into commercial products afterwards. Samsung also demonstrated its vision of future smartphone devices. Samsung is moving forward to developing flexible display technology which changes the d...
Apple's Road to $1 Trillion
[Investing]
2018/08/05 09:07
Despite the news that Apple lost its second place in the smartphone market to Huawei in the past quarter, the iPhone maker is closer than ever to becoming the first trillion dollar company. Following the release of better-than-expected results on Tuesday, the company’s share price climbed almost 6 percent on Wednesday and continued its upward trend on Thursday morning. While some news outlets...
Volta’s Ad-Supported Electric Vehicle Charging Service Raises $35M
[Investing]
2018/08/05 09:06
As increasing numbers of electric vehicles are expected to hit the streets, thanks to new models from big automakers soon hitting the market, charging networks like Volta Charging are raising new cash to meet the expected demand. The company today said it raised $35 million from investors led by the Invenergy Future Fund, the technology investment arm of renewable energy project developer Inven...
Naked Labs Raises $14M Led by Founders Fund for its 3D Body Scanning Mirror
[Investing]
2018/08/05 09:05
Naked Labs believes that body shape is a more important thing to measure and they’ve begun shipping their body-scanning mirror that builds a 3D model of users and alerts them where progress is being made and where there’s potential for more work to be done.The startup also announced today that it has raised a $14 million Series A led by Founders Fund. Also participating were NEA, Lumia Capita...
Python is Becoming the World’s Most Popular Coding Language
[Tech]
2018/08/05 09:04
But its rivals are unlikely to disappear.“I CERTAINLY didn’t set out to create a language that was intended for mass consumption,” says Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist who devised Python, a programming language, in 1989. But nearly three decades on, his invention has overtaken almost all of its rivals and brought coding to the fingertips of people who were once baffled by it. In...
Spinnova Wants Your Next T-shirt to be Made from Wood
[Tech]
2018/08/05 09:03
Spinnova has found a way to spin any cellulose–wood, potato peels, even old T-shirts–into new, strong fiber. This startup wants your next T-shirt to be made from wood.In a new pilot factory in Jyväskylä, Finland–a city surrounded by forests and known in part for its lumber and paper industries–a startup will soon begin to turn wood pulp into something new: a type of fabric that could even...
