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CES 2015 : Putting the Mobile Into Automobile
[Business]
2015/01/12 11:11
In 2007, Bill Gates stepped onstage at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to help introduce Sync, a combination GPS navigator, digital music player, and speakerphone being introduced into Fords. Mark Fields, then the head of Ford Motor’s (F) Americas operations, joined Gates for the sales pitch. He now recalls being met with incredulity. At a show traditionally dedicated...
(PDF) Pew Report - Social Media Update 2014
[Business]
2015/01/12 11:10
In a new survey conducted in September 2014, the Pew Research Center finds that While its growth has slowed, the level of user engagement with the platform has increased. Other platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn saw significant increases over the past year in the proportion of online adults who now use their sites.The results in this report are based on the 81% of America...
Streaming Boom Changes Music Landscape
[Business]
2015/01/12 11:09
A little more than a decade after Apple opened the iTunes Music Store and helped music downloads to break through to the mainstream, it appears as if listeners have already turned their backs on download stores in favor of streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora. After global download revenues had declined for the first time in 2013, the negative trend continued in 2014. According to Nie...
Text-a-Doctor App Gets Big Venture Capital Boost
[Investing]
2015/01/12 11:06
Wouldn’t it be great if you had a good friend who was a doctor and didn’t mind telling you (for free) whether a set of symptoms warranted an office visit? A rising text-a-doctor app called First Opinion aims to make that friend available to users globally. The app is raising some skeptical eyebrows in medical circles, but it’s also raising considerable funding from the venture capital commun...
The Incredible Shrinking Incomes of Young Americans
[Consumer]
2015/01/12 11:05
American families are grappling with stagnant wage growth, as the costs of health care, education, and housing continue to climb. But for many of America’s younger workers, “stagnant” wages shouldn’t sound so bad. In fact, they might sound like a massive raise.Since the Great Recession struck in 2007, the median wage for people between the ages of 25 and 34, adjusted for inflation, has fall...
Quinque Washer Features 5 Laundry Baskets to Wash Your Laundry Individually
[Design]
2015/01/12 11:04
Living in a share house can be difficult to get your own privacy and security, there are certain rules to follow so that you can live with others in harmony. Shared house also means shared laundry room, this is where Quinque Washer concept comes in handy. You don’t need to worry of getting late because someone doesn’t finish the laundry on time, this concept washer allows up to 5 laundry bask...
(Infographic) Which Programming Language Should I Learn First ?
[Tech]
2015/01/12 11:03
So you want to learn programming. Maybe you have asked your developer friends for recommendations and get different answers. They explained with terms that you don’t understand (what is object-oriented?!). [click to enlarge]To help you to pick your first programming language to learn, here is an easy-to-understand infographic that recommends the best option, depending on your purpose and inter...
The 11 Coolest Things at CES, From Wi-Fi Tea Kettles to Electric Roller Skates
[Product]
2015/01/11 11:11
The show has barely begun, and we’ve already seen enough weird and wonderful tech to fill a house. And that’s precisely the point of many of the items on display here at CES; New devices for smartening up your home are plentiful. We’ve seen kitchen appliances, lighting systems, and electrical conduits that are designed to be safer, to consume less power, and to be controlled via mobile apps....
(PDF) Mckinsey : 4 Trends Shaping China’s Retail Banking Landscape
[Business]
2015/01/11 11:10
China’s retail banking revenues have grown 30 percent a year since 2009 and could exceed RMB 2.6 trillion (over US$430 billion) by 2020, making the country the largest retail banking market in Asia. Intense competition for the Chinese retail banking consumer’s wallet has accompanied this fast growth. Meanwhile, the retail banking landscape has faced several challenges, including interest rate...
Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel is Investing in Marijuana
[Consumer]
2015/01/11 11:09
Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund pours funds into the company behind Leafly, an online cannabis community.Well, sort of. Founders Fund, a venture capital firm he cofounded, is announcing today that it participated in cannabis-focused private equity firm Privateer Holdings‘ $75 million round of funding, of which it has secured about $50 million so far. (To be clear, Founders Fund partner Geoff Lewi...
(Video) This Energy Monitor Can Control an Entire House of Appliances Remotely
[Product]
2015/01/11 11:08
Smappee from Belgium can itemize electricity usage and control a household full of devices by retrofitting them with Internet of Things capabilities.The ever-growing Internet of Things promises a programmable, wifi connected utopia of objects that act on the consumer’s behalf, fulfilling their every need and desire. While innovations such as Jibo and Mellow inch us ever closer to this reality,...
CES 2015: Sex Tech Plunges Into The Wearables Market
[Tech]
2015/01/11 11:07
With an upcoming app, OhMiBod aims to promote sexual health (and its customers’ pleasure) by upgrading its devices.PSFK has frequently noted benchmark moments in the marriage of sex and tech, as when developers made long-distance relationships more intimate and offered to turn everyday object into playthings with an updated pencil sharpener. One company’s showing at CES 2015, however, looks t...
