TREND REPORTS
Peer-to-Peer Delivery Service Brings Unique Items Right to The Door - Grabr
[Business]
2016/08/04 11:32
Grabr piggybacks existing journeys to deliver almost any item, anywhere.From hospitality to private transport, peer-to-peer solutions have cut established providers out of the market across a range of industries. Airbnb and Uber are just the headliners; elsewhere we’ve seen P2P lending through Bitcoin, and startups enabling travelers to exchange chats in their native language for bed and board...
“Surprise Travel” Companies Create Personalized Mystery Trips
[Business]
2016/08/04 11:32
In a culture in which choice overload can complicate everything from what to watch to who to date, travel companies are betting on the fact that fewer decisions will lead to happier tourists. Surprise travel programs are proliferating as a result, as more startups and services seek out consumers willing to relinquish control in favor of embarking into the unknown. PACK UP + GOTravel startup Pac...
(Video) Blink Controlled Camera Provides Recipe for Awkward Moments - blincam
[Product]
2016/08/04 11:32
No, she's not into you - she's just taking a photo. As we move to document every single waking minute of our lives, there's a real risk of missing the perfect shot of that dog/latte/kid/sunset in the time it takes to reach our phones. Blincam is designed to remove that awkward fumbling from mobile photography, instead allowing users to capture photos by winking or blinking.Based in Tokyo, the c...
Germophobes : Elevated Titanium Silverware Will Keep Your Radar Quiet
[Design]
2016/08/04 11:32
Untouctable is a set of titanium silverware that are engineered with precision by distributing the weight to the back of the silverware. This keeps the front-end of the silverware elevated away from contaminated surfaces. If you’ve gotten to the point where you worry about what surfaces your utensils touch, as you’re eating, you may have a germophobia problem. But it looks like instead of mak...
(PDF) Deep Learning Algorithm Paints Smooth-Moving Works of Art
[Tech]
2016/08/03 10:57
A team at Freiburg University has developed a neural network that takes an art style from an image or painting and applies it smoothly over an entire video.Last year, Google unleashed its Deep Dream Generator on the world, and a wave of images filled with bright lines, eyeballs and creepy dog heads flooded the internet. Now a team at the University of Freiburg in Germany has given neural networ...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Screening The Organizational Health of Korea’s Companies
[Business]
2016/08/03 10:57
Our survey shows that many have yet to adopt management practices that could help them compete in a challenging economy.Many South Korean businesses have flourished over the past few decades, and some have emerged as world-class makers of mobile devices, memory chips, LCD screens, automobiles, and ships. In recent years, however, Korean companies have seen their financial results slip as econom...
(Infographic) How The Didi-Uber China Deal Redraws The Ride-Hailing Landscape
[Investing]
2016/08/03 10:56
In the wake of Didi Chuxing's acquisition of Uber China, we analyze how the deal adds another level of complexity to the tangled webs of investment in the ride-hailing space.[click to enlarge]The fierce battle for ride-hailing supremacy in the world’s most populous market saw the two giants Uber and Didi Chuxing raise unprecedented amounts of funding as they rose to stratospheric valuations. U...
The Age of Tech
[Investing]
2016/08/03 10:56
Ten years ago, the world was a different place: the smartphone as we know it hadn’t been invented, Facebook was still in its infancy and ExxonMobile was worth six times as much as Apple. What a difference ten years make.Last Friday, for a brief period of time, Apple, Alphabet (Google), Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon were the five most valuable publicly traded companies in the world, relegating...
Tiffany Shifts Its Social Focus to Snapchat
[Business]
2016/08/03 10:56
Tiffany is the first luxury brand to sponsor a lens, which also draws a white heart with the text “Return to Tiffany Love” scribbled on top when users smile into the camera. The heritage brand is expected to have spent around $700,000 for the activation, the estimated price for sponsored lenses as the company doesn’t disclose cost.On Snapchat, Tiffany will also have a branded geofilter at al...
