TREND REPORTS
Apple’s Watch Outpaced the iPhone in First Year
[Product]
2016/04/26 11:09
Despite sizable sales, Apple’s latest product has plenty of challenges to overcome. One year after its debut, the Apple Watch is critical to the company's fate. Apple Inc. sold twice as many Watches as iPhones in each device’s debut year. Yet the smartwatch is dogged by a perception that seems premature given the history of Apple’s most popular devices: disappointment.As the Watch marks its...
(Video) Designers Created a Sliding Glass Door That Can Turn Around Corners
[Design]
2016/04/26 11:08
The Vitrocsa Turnable Corner Window System is a design for a sliding glass door that can turn around corners. It runs on a rolling system that eliminates the need for bulky rails, and the panels can slide into walls and leave the entire space open.TURNABLE CORNERThe latest product developed by Vitrocsa. Sliding glass panels designed to slide around corners. Developed to optimise space by comple...
Global Smartphone Market Forecast
[Business]
2016/04/26 11:07
The global smartphone market is expected to slow considerably over the next few years. Despite a record-setting holiday quarter, 2015 was likely the last year of double-digit growth for smartphone shipments. Mature markets were at the heart of this year’s deceleration. Adoption has reached new highs in key markets in the United States, Europe, and China. The pool of first-time buyers in these...
Games Deals Rebound in Q1, But Rocks Below The Surface
[Investing]
2016/04/26 11:06
Last year was the worst games deals ice age in a decade, but the topline numbers in Digi-Capital’s Games Report for Q1 2016 make it look like there has been a thaw. However, the buoyant waters of the first quarter hide rocks beneath the surface, and games deal makers should look carefully before they dive back in.The topline figures for games investment in Q1 make it look like a recovery, with...
GE Uses 3D Printing to Create Mini Turbine That Can Power 10,000 Homes
[Tech]
2016/04/26 11:05
Doug Hofer of GE Global Research holds a 3D printed prototype of the turbine [Image: GE Global Research]‘Bigger isn’t always better’ is a maxim the truth of which is increasingly convincing to people in the modern world. We’ve seen computers go from the size of a room to the size of a fingernail, telephones move from bulky, murder-weapon-size devices to sliding into your front pocket, and e...
Japanese Teenagers and Purikura Photo Booths
[Product]
2016/04/26 11:04
In England photo booths are a rather boring affair solely used to take passport and driving license pictures, and you aren’t even allowed to smile or wear glasses! However in Japan there are a lot of different photo booths to use, in Japan these are called “purikura”.The booths may seem quite overwhelming if you don’t have good kanji or Japanese reading skills, however they are usually quit...
(Infographic) How Women Want to Interact With Brands Online
[Consumer]
2016/04/26 11:03
Women interact digitally with beauty and clothing brands the most. According to a new study conducted for Adweek by product review and discovery platform Influenster, brands need to move even further toward mobile if they want to make meaningful connections with women. "Digital consumption, especially of visual content, is happening at such a rapid pace on handheld devices marketers should push...
(PDF) Bain - The Math, the Magic and the Customer
[Business]
2016/04/25 11:10
Today’s marketers plumb the depths of Big Data with advanced analytical toolsand seekto measure return on investment on every campaign.Forget Mad Men. Today’s marketers are more likely to be math men and women. They plumb the depths of Big Data with advanced analytical tools. They buy and use dazzling new software—some spend more on technology in a given year than their companies’ IT depart...
What Downturn ? 11 Companies Became Unicorns in Q1
[Investing]
2016/04/25 11:08
With no IPOs taking place in the first quarter of 2016, much attention is now focused on unicorns. Will they be able to maintain their billion dollar valuations, or will they would be picked off one at a time, succumbing to valuation markdowns and volatile public markets?Even with a healthy resetting of many tech company valuations underway, eleven firms attained unicorn status in Q1 and had a...
