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Uber Usage by Business Travelers Surpassed Taxi and Car Rentals in 2015
[Business]
2016/01/25 11:08
With the growing popularity of on-demand services, it’s only natural to see their appeal not only in the consumer space, but also to business users. According to Certify, a provider of travel and expense report management software — in 2015, for the first time, more people used Uber (41 percent) than taxis (20 percent) or rental cars (39 percent) while on business trips. What’s more, it’s r...
(Video) Louis Vuittons Newest Face Is a Video Game Character ?
[Business]
2016/01/25 11:07
Lightning from the Final Fantasy franchise is the new face of Louis Vuitton’s Series 4 collection—and she's looking pretty fierce.Louis Vuitton is pretty much winning the fashion campaign game right now: First, Jaden Smith dominates headlines as a model for Louis Vuitton’s spring-summer women’s wear line and now the fashion house has tapped a video game character as the face of its Series 4...
(Video) Zeiss ExoLens Allows You Take Professional-Level Photos with Your iPhone 4
[Product]
2016/01/25 11:06
Nowadays, more people use their smartphone to take photos instead of real camera, especially with iPhone. Zeiss Exolens has been designed especially for iPhone to help you capture professional-level photos and videos. They want to push further the quality of mobile photography, this lens would delver clear, crisp visuals thanks to meticulously engineered lenses made from highest-grade materials...
Why You Shouldn't Judge Children's Book Buyers by Their Covers
[Consumer]
2016/01/25 11:05
When it comes to children's book buyers, purchasing habits are not homogenous. Just like elsewhere across the consumer product landscape, not all consumers in this category are created equal. Said another way, some book buyers present publishers and retailers with more opportunity than others.To better understand consumption in the children’s book market, Nielsen recently conducted a segmentat...
FreedomPop Raises $50M to Take Its Free Mobile SIM Plans Global
[Investing]
2016/01/25 11:04
FreedomPop, a wireless Internet provider whose SIM cards include free basic mobile service plans, has raised a fresh $50 million in capital, taking its total funding to almost $110 million.Founded out of Los Angeles in 2011, FreedomPop has built its mobile offering around giving away free mobile data, text messages, and talk time, in the hope that those who require more than the bundled allowan...
Flexible Film May Lead to Phone-Sized Cancer Detector
[Tech]
2016/01/25 11:03
Researchers at University of Michigan are investigating the use of circularly polarized light to help detect the presence of proteins and DNA strands that serve as biomarkers for cancer and other diseases. Their technique relies on tagging the target molecules with other molecules that are carrying a coating reflective of circularly polarized light. This kind of light being naturally rare is ea...
(PDF) PwC - M&A in The Global Automotive Supply Industry
[Investing]
2016/01/24 16:50
Mergers and acquisitions in the global automotive supplier sector are occurring at an unprecedented level in 2015, according to the Strategy& seventh annual “Consolidation in the Global Automotive Supply Industry” report. Based on data from the first six months of 2015, Strategy& anticipates that deal value will top US$48 billion for the full year, a 340 percent increase over 2014. Wh...
(Video) iPhone 7 Concept Phone Features Borderless OED Display and iOS 10
[Design]
2016/01/24 11:10
Apple fans have been waiting for next innovation in iPhone 7, there are many designers out there try to come up with cool ideas as entertainment or inspiration. In the mean time, iPhone-Tricks feels that they need to create their own vision of future iPhone, so, here you are … a gorgeous, borderless phone with OED display for optimum contrast and image quality.This project is a design study th...
GM Unveils Maven, Its Big New Play In Car-Sharing Services
[Business]
2016/01/24 11:08
General Motors has taken the wraps off its latest move to put itself into the next generation of transportation. Today the company launched Maven, a new program that brings together the company’s various efforts in car-sharing services, along with a team of 40 from within the car technology industry and people brought in from Google, Zipcar and Sidecar to develop more sharing services to add t...
