For anyone who regularly receives packages (which is just about everyone thanks to Amazon), securing your packages once they’ve arrived is problematic if not entirely stress inducing! You don’t leave your house unlocked, so why would you trust your items to stay on your doorstep? The time is approaching for homes and apartments to be equipped with personal package drop-offs. Designed with thi...

Most across all age groups vastly prefer email over any other medium.[click to enlarge]Toluna and Movable Ink’s new research analyzed the effectiveness of marketing messages by age group.Consumers across all age groups strongly prefer email over any other marketing medium, and they consider irrelevance and oversaturation to be the two worst elements of bad marketing messaging. Those are two of...

It was inevitable. Everything in the connected home is smart these days, from vacuums to appliances to lights. Why not a smart aquarium?That’s the concept and coming product from a small company called Bluenero, operating largely out of the Republic of Armenia. The company has launched an Indiegogo campaign that’s already raised over $35,000 on a $25,000 goal and Founder and CEO Vahe Tumanyan...

A developer has designed tiny, self- contained prefabricated apartments for the homeless.In San Francisco alone, there are almost 7,000 people living on the streets. Developer Panoramic has developed what it thinks could be a way to help by creating small homes quickly and efficiently. The company has developed the MicroPad – a smaller version of its Prefabricated Affordable Dwelling. Made fro...

In a digital-driven business reality, CIOs face a choice: remain a functional leader or aim to help shape and lead the organization’s digital future. Deloitte’s global CIO survey shows how leaders are taking on the challenge.Download PDF Report : https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/insights/us/articles/4774_CIO-survey/DI_CIO-survey-2018.pdf[deloitte]

Walmart is working with Ossia, a company that develops wireless over-the-air power charging technology for various devices, to test Ossia's tech in a physical retail store environment.Walmart, the first retailer to agree to a pilot with Ossia, potentially could save money on electricity costs by using the technology to charge in-store devices such as mobile smartphones, electronic shelf labels,...

What do lab-grown meat, a holographic museum guide and a supercharged version of Amazon’s Alexa have in common?They’re all breakthrough technologies that are likely to shape our lives in the near future, according to a list published by the World Economic Forum. Selected by a panel of scientists and experts, each one has been identified as having the potential to be disruptive by altering dee...

Given the 8-month long crypto bear market, lots of bitcoin naysayers are feeling smug right about now.[click to enlarge]From JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon to CNBC’s Mad Money host Jim Cramer and Nobel economist Robert Shiller, every media personality seems to think bitcoin’s downward trend will continue. There’s plenty of evidence to suggest things will turnaround, but that’s beside the point. B...

The center of gravity for digital wealth in the US is the In|Vest conference, and the update this week from its publishers is excellent. Let's call attention to the following phenomenon. All of a sudden, everyone wants to claim to have roboadvisor / digital wealth assets, and to get rewarded from a valuation perspective for understanding the future customer. As soon as JP Morgan started braggin...