TREND REPORTS
Rising Oil Prices Are Making More Extraction Methods Viable
[Investing]
2018/02/11 10:07
GLOBAL oil markets have historically been prone to epic cycles of boom and bust. Because it generally takes years for a fresh exploration project to yield its first barrels, producers tend to over-invest when prices are high, only to see the value of their output crash once a large number of new fields begin operation. That forces companies to cut back on their capital expenditure, reducing gro...
Security Robots Offer Autonomous Surveillance
[Product]
2018/02/11 10:06
A.I. and robotics have come a long way since the first iterations of digital personal assistants to today’s various home devices. Security robots are the next wave, patrolling the office and the street to assist in surveillance and safety. The majority of youth are open to such advancements as long as they don't infringe too closely on their privacy; 86% of Gen Zs believe that technology makes...
The Flipside of Digital Wealth
[Investing]
2018/02/11 10:05
The path of digital investment advice is going according to plan. We predicted digital wealth to grow to between $500MM-$1.5T in AUM by 2020 in the Fintech Phenomenon analysis, and the latest estimates from Cerulli place is at $220 billion today. Of course most of that is Vanguard, Schwab and other incumbents, which was also expected given the product set and the customer acquisition dynamics i...
Headband-Less Headphones Are a Thing Now
[Design]
2018/02/11 10:04
This peculiar pack of headphones combines the freedom and flexibility of wireless earbuds with the isolation and audio quality of on-ear phones. Ergonomically adapted to attach to each independently, they easily slide on and stay put. Rather than take them out of your ears when you want to converse or better hear your environment, a simple swipe of the finger over the earpiece will trigger them...
Users Spending Less Time on Single Pages
[Consumer]
2018/02/11 10:04
The average session length on publishers’ pages dropped below 2 minutes over the course of last year, according to Taboola data published by eMarketer. Time spent with an individual page was 1.90 minutes in the fourth quarter of 2017, down from 2.09 minutes in the first quarter of the year. This can be read as being bad news for publishers, as it indicates they get less attention from readers....
(PDF) Mckinsey - Luxury in The Age of Digital Darwinism
[Business]
2018/02/08 10:10
To survive and prosper, luxury players need to enhance the customer experience and transform their businesses for the digital era.The trajectory of digital in luxury has come into sharper focus. Digital is a critical source of growth and a powerful way to increase brand equity. It also enables companies to reimagine key enterprise processes, both front end and back of house. A Luxury 4.0 operat...
Forbes - The Richest People In Cryptocurrency
[Investing]
2018/02/08 10:09
In the world of cryptocurrency, fortunes can be made overnight, and the winners of this digital lottery differ from those in previous manias.The shadowy beginnings, at once anarchistic, utopian and libertarian, have drawn an odd lot of pioneers—from antiestablishment cypherpunks and electricity-guzzling “miners” to prescient Silicon Valley financiers and a larger-than-usual assortment of the...
New Lego Invention Can Sort Cells And Molecules
[Design]
2018/02/08 10:08
Thanks to their exceptionally high manufacturing standards, Lego blocks are pretty useful in the lab.Is there anything that Lego blocks can’t do? People use them to solve Rubik’s Cubes faster than ever, create bionic arms, fix crumbling monuments, and build actual houses. And now, MIT scientists have figured out a way to use them for actual biomedical research.This isn’t actually the first t...
Rev The Engines of Online Auto Researchers with Engaging and Relevant Content
[Consumer]
2018/02/08 10:07
Thanks to the internet, researching a car has never been easier. What used to take days traveling from dealer to dealer now takes minutes as potential purchasers cruise websites and forums to view details on new models, check dealer inventory and pricing, read reviews and even negotiate entire transactions.According to Nielsen Scarborough, almost 22 million Americans took to the web during the...
