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(Video) Ogilvy Playfully Completes Lower Half Of Famed Artworks In Prizewinning Campaign
[Business]
2017/06/27 10:06
'Portraits Completed’—a campaign by Ogilvy Chicago for shoe polish brand Kiwi has won big at this year’s Cannes festival. The agency imagined, and completed the bottom half of famous paintings to reveal the subjects’ shoes. Ogilvy Chicago not only organized an exhibition of the “completed” artworks, but also offered an audio tour that cleverly weaved the Kiwi brand into narratives that co...
(Video) Houzz Raises a Huge $400M Round at a $4B Valuation
[Investing]
2017/06/27 10:05
Houzz has raised $400 million led by Iconiq Capital, with Sequoia, Zeev Ventures and GGV also participating in the round. The new financing round values the startup at $4 billion, according to Bloomberg, making it one of the higher valued consumer startups — and based around house decorations, no less. The company has launched a localized version in 14 countries outside of the U.S., and the Ho...
(Video) 'Nostalgia Retro Series 3-in-1 Breakfast Station
[Product]
2017/06/27 10:04
The ’50s-Style 3-in-1 Breakfast Station makes a complete breakfast with just one appliance. Enjoy a cup of coffee with the four-cup coffee maker, then treat the family to a variety of breakfast meats and eggs cooked on the large, non-stick griddle. The multi-functioning toaster holds up to four slices of bread at a time, and is perfect for 7-inch frozen pizzas, hot sandwiches, desserts and mor...
Charging Strap for Gear S3
[Design]
2017/06/27 10:04
Charge your smartphone anywhere, anytime by simply detaching strap of the watch.We are surrounded by more and more various devices. Thins makes us uncomfortable, need to charge devices and carry long charge cable. For this, I designed ‘charging strap’ that has charge function, exceeding the idea of accessories, based on Samsung smartwatch’s strap removable structure."I made charger cable str...
(Infographic) Who's Number 2 ?
[Business]
2017/06/27 10:03
Second-in-Command at 25 Iconic American Companies.CEO’s often get the bulk of the credit for successful business leadership. It’s easy to credit the work of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Tim cook for their success at their respective companies. However new research from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that we may learn more about leadership in business from the second-in...
How George Clooney Accidentally Started The Tequila Company He Just Sold for Up to $1 Billion
[Investing]
2017/06/26 10:33
George Clooney is selling his tequila company to Diageo for as much as $1 billion, the company announced on Wednesday. But Clooney and business partner Rande Gerber didn't set out to make money by launching Casamigos Tequila.While building their side-by-side vacation homes in Cabo San Lucas, the long-time friends were spending a lot of time in Mexico — and consequently, drinking a lot of tequi...
(Infographic) 4 Futurists Weigh in On the Jobs of the Future
[Tech]
2017/06/26 10:33
Here are some future jobs predicted by four futurists – Graeme Codrington, Joe Tankersly, Thomas Frey, and Jim Carroll.Many people are scared of the future. With every science fiction movie that portrays technology as evil, and let’s be honest, that’s the theme of almost every science fiction movie that’s ever existed, it’s easy to develop some paranoia about the dangers ahead.However, muc...
How AI is Taking Over the Global Economy in One Chart
[Investing]
2017/06/26 10:33
For decades, corporate America has spurned big-lab research-and-development spending, the type that delivered the dizzying and broad tech and economic progress of the last century. But a belief that artificial intelligence is going to drive the next big economic wave has led today's largest companies — like Google, IBM and Microsoft — to revert to the old, ambitious R&D model. And their C...
Amazon Meets Drone Meets Hyperloop
[Design]
2017/06/26 10:10
Honestly, if there were any company meddling with innovative consignment delivery, it would probably be Amazon.Known to be a company that isn’t shy to push boundaries, they’ve got their fingers in every domain possible. The final frontier? Transportation! The Iris was developed as a concept to help Amazon get their deliveries done a whole lot faster.These massive electric trains would carry A...
