TREND REPORTS
Will Photo Art Phenom Prisma Raise or Get Bought ?
[Business]
2016/07/25 11:10
Prisma morphs your photos into fine art like Picasso or Mondrian, and it’s blowing up the iOS app charts. But what will be the fate of this red-hot social product? We’ve heard Prisma is in talks with investors about raising funding, but it might make more sense as an acquisition for Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, or Snapchat.When I asked Prisma co-founder and CEO Alexey Moiseenkov what’s going...
(PDF) Accenture - Charting China’s Digital Destiny
[Business]
2016/07/25 11:09
How does a country know where it stands in the digital revolution? Is it a vanguard member, a fast follower or simply a digital dawdler? The difference could mean billions of dollars in economic value generation.To find out, leaders can employ a new approach developed by Accenture and Oxford Economics. By assessing a nation’s use of digital technologies and the degree to which its businesses a...
The $105 Billion Enterprise Market for Pokémon Go
[Business]
2016/07/25 11:08
What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology.Putting Pokémon Go to work: Suddenly, Pokémon Go, the app based on the 20-year-old video game, is everywhere. People with smartphones are more like zombies than ever. Marketers are formulating their Pokémon Go strategies. Thanks, augmented reality!The consumer market is not the only place AR is taking off, according...
Tycoon Okada’s Universal Wages Biggest Bet in Manila Casino
[Investing]
2016/07/25 11:07
Kazuo Okada, Universal Entertainment Corp. chairman and former Steve Wynn partner, plans to challenge Macau in wooing Chinese gamblers to his Manila casino resort that could cost $4 billion and is scheduled to open in November.Okada, 73, wants his casino featuring a 100 meter (328 feet) dancing water fountain and indoor beach “to compete with what is in Macau” and other parts of Asia, said Ta...
The Retailer's New Features Gamify Shopping - Sephora
[Business]
2016/07/25 11:06
Sephora Is Driving Mobile Sales With Tinder-Like Features and Digital Mad Libs Plus actual ads on the dating app Sephora has led the pack in mobile beauty retailers for a few years, and now it's taking a page from games and pop culture to help re-launch the Sephora Collection—its private label brand.Sephora's mobile and desktop site now includes two new features—dubbed "swipe it, shop it" and...
Organic Valley Traces Milk Back From Table to Farm
[Business]
2016/07/25 11:05
Organic Valley’s revamped website aims to personalize people’s consumption of organic products.JANA McCLELLAND is a third-generation dairy farmer in Petaluma, Calif. This October, she expects 600 to 1,200 people to visit her family’s farm.She plans to take them to the nursery, the milking parlor and the pastures.“We know people care where their food comes from,” she said.It is all part of...
(Video) Packable Device Keeps Mosquitoes Away in the Boonies
[Product]
2016/07/25 11:05
Thermacell's mosquito repelling technology sets up a 15 x 15-foot protection zone.Beyond heated insoles, Thermacell makes a variety of battery-powered gadgets for outdoor lovers, among them a line of mosquito repellers. The company is preparing to launch a lighter, more compact repeller designed to go deeper into the wilderness. The packable Backpacker Repeller drops Thermacell's mosquito-fight...
Egg-Cellent Egg-Xecution - Dot Line Egg Tray
[Design]
2016/07/25 11:03
Dot Line Egg Tray is a Red Dot Design Award winner for the year 2015.Why bring modularity to complicated things like phones and furniture when egg trays need it the most?!The Dot Line egg tray has a unique structure that is accompanied by the fact that it has a dotted tear-away line running like a grid, separating eggs. Not only does this make it easier to purchase an irregular number of eggs (...
(Patent) New Google Patent Highlights Vision For Home Health Monitors
[Tech]
2016/07/24 11:10
Alphabet has their hands in just about every industry in some way or another these days, including the Internet of Things and the medical industry. With expertise in both, it only makes sense that they would initiate a venture to combine them, especially given the already prominent role of IoT in medicine and the potential that lies therein. The company’s vision is to provide the kind of healt...
