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(PDF) Piper Jaffray - Taking Stock With Teens, Fall 2017
[Consumer]
2017/10/19 11:52
Since the survey’s inception 17 years ago, Piper Jaffray has surveyed more than 155,000 teens and collected nearly 40 million data points on teen spending in fashion, beauty and personal care, digital media, food, gaming and entertainment. FALL 2017 KEY FINDINGSOverall Spending Behavior- Overall teen spending moved down 4.4% year-over-year, while parent contribution to teen spend is 67% just b...
Polestar One Electric Car is Volvo's Answer to High Performance EV
[Product]
2017/10/19 11:51
Polestar, volvo’s performance brand, presents its future as a standalone electric performance car brand. The swedish-automaker has confirmed plans for its first three models, a new purpose-built production facility in china and the company’s first car, the 600 hp electric polestar ‘one’ which is set to arrive in mid-2019. The polestar ‘one’ will form a halo for the future electric brand....
(Video) Delft Hyperloop Develops Prototype for Sustainable High-Speed Travel Between Cities
[Design]
2017/10/19 11:50
Winners of the spacex hyperloop pod competition, multidisciplinary tech collective delft consists of students of highly motivated students from various disciplines of the delft university of technology in the netherlands. The team aims to bring sustainable and high-speed travel between amsterdam and the rest of europe in just under 30 minutes by traveling within an airless vacuum tube propelled...
(PDF) Bain - Choosing the Right Platform for the Industrial IoT
[Business]
2017/10/18 14:40
Connected consumer devices and wearables have captured the attention of the media, but the biggest battlegrounds in the Internet of Things (IoT) will be the enterprise and industrial sectors. Consumer applications will generate $150 billion by 2020, but business-to-business (B2B) applications will be worth twice that amount, with more than $300 billion in anticipated revenues (see Figure 1). Gl...
(Patent) Amazon Patents a Drone That Can Juice Up Your EV on The Fly
[Tech]
2017/10/18 14:40
Amazon was recently granted US patent number 9,778,653, otherwise known as "Systems, devices and methods delivering energy using an uncrewed autonomous vehicle." Basically, it's a drone that can juice up your EV's battery while you're on the move.Refueling on the move sounds like a pipe dream when it comes to gas cars, but Amazon could make it a reality for your future electric car.It works lik...
Julian Assange Says He’s Made a 50,000% Return on Bitcoin
[Investing]
2017/10/18 14:40
As bitcoin prices surge toward $6,000. Since he’s been running from the U.S. government, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange says he was forced to become an early investor in bitcoin—resulting in returns of over 50,000%.He took to Twitter to gloat.“My deepest thanks to the U.S. government, Senator McCain, and Senator Lieberman for pushing Visa, MasterCad, Paypal, AmEx, Moneybookers, et al, into...
Japan's First Wrinkle-fighting Product Powers Pola Orbis
[Product]
2017/10/18 14:39
Pola Orbis is projecting record earnings thanks to its hit product Wrinkle Shot Serum. Hot seller grew out of more than a decade of R&D, approval process.Cosmetics maker Pola Orbis Holdings' hot-selling facial wrinkle-fighting cream, Wrinkle Shot Serum, is turning into a cash cow that could fund the company's expansion overseas.Wrinkle Shot, released by subsidiary Pola, is the result of som...
U.S. FMCG Dollars Aren't Vanishing ; They're Shifting Across The Store
[Consumer]
2017/10/18 14:39
Daily headlines make it clear that the U.S. grocery landscape is in the midst of major change. With retail channels like food, drug and mass merchandise experiencing declines in the first-half of 2017, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) manufacturers and retailers need to look more closely across the aisles of the store to determine how dollars are shifting, because dollars are vanishing all tog...
Brands Accept Non-Traditional Currency in Clever Campaigns
[Business]
2017/10/18 14:39
More than half of global youth are interested in owning digital currency like Bitcoin, as revealed in our latest report, Self Made, but other alternative payments are catching their attention as well. Brands around the world are implementing creative campaigns and technologies to accept smiles, scrapes, and dialects instead of money.KFC Customers at K PRO, KFC’s new concept restaurant in Hangz...
