Thrive in a world of advertising disruption.​Fifty years ago, just three major broadcasters delivered viewers' daily dose of entertainment. With a captive audience, ad publishers had little to worry about. That is no longer the case. In today's landscape, viewers have virtually unlimited, on-demand options for media consumption. This increasingly fragmented audience paired with new direct-to-c...

Various smartphone manufacturers have a foldable phone in the works, like Samsung and Huawei. But also computer and chip manufacturers like Microsoft, Qualcomm, IBM and Intel work on foldable devices. This time LetsGoDigital reports on a patent from US computer and chip manufacturer Intel.Halfway 2017 WIPO published a patent from Intel Corporation for an ‘Electronic device with foldable displa...

New Technology Uses Lasers to Transmit Audible Messages to Specific People. Photoacoustic communication approach could send warning messages through the air without requiring a receiving device. Researchers have demonstrated that a laser can transmit an audible message to a person without any type of receiver equipment. The ability to send highly targeted audio signals over the air could be use...

Global trends are creating ever-larger winners and losers.We live in an era of disruption in which powerful global forces are changing how we live and work. The rise of China, India, and other emerging economies; the rapid spread of digital technologies; the growing challenges to globalization; and, in some countries, the splintering of long-held social contracts are all roiling business, the e...

Get ready for images projected in mid-air to start appearing in the next few years. According to pop culture, weren't there supposed to be more holograms by now? The 1970s and '80s were full of holographic wishes. Back to the Future II told us that we'd have holographic movie trailers. A major Star Wars plot point involved a holographic Princess Leia. Even erstwhile cartoon pop star Jem's backu...

Apps such as Robinhood and Webull are drawing in young and often inexperienced investors; ‘bringing the ability to make foolish decisions to an ever-broader swath of people’Morgan Snipes downloaded the Robinhood Markets Inc. app on his phone nine months ago with a plan to leave his day job behind.The stock market has turned into a game for inexperienced investors like 35-year-old Mr. Snipes,...

Caregivers in Japan could find their workload a lot lighter if the country successfully moves ahead with plans to reinvent the adult diaper.Japan’s ministry of land and infrastructure devised a road map for the development of the first flushable adult diaper last year, with a prototype possibly becoming a reality this year, according to local media reports (link in Japanese).“If the plan is r...

If you could travel back in time to the 19th century, it would be very difficult to convince anyone that railroad investments were not the future of the stock market.Governments were offering subsidies and land grants to stimulate rapid industry growth – and in the period of 1868-1873, just after the American Civil War, an astonishing 33,000 miles of new railroad track were laid.Entrepreneurs...

As global consumers start to critically evaluate advanced vehicle technologies and whether they are willing to pay for them, utopian visions of future mobility systems may not be as close as we thought, leaving OEMs in the precarious position of needing to push forward on costly R&D programs with little assurance of ROI.MOST scenarios involving future transportation systems center on the hy...