The comScore data present a relatively bleak picture of digital media landscape if you're not a dominant brand.Over the past two years, digital media time has grown significantly but most of that has been driven by mobile and apps in particular. The world of apps, however, is much smaller and more concentrated than the PC internet.Just under 60 percent of total digital media time is now spent i...

Add another self-driving startup to your long list of self-driving startups: Nuro.ai. Perhaps the most compelling feature of the company, which is still in semi-stealth mode, is that it was co-founded by two former top executives of Google’s self-driving car project: Jiajun Zhu and Dave Ferguson.Zhu, one of the original founders of the search giant’s autonomous car effort, and Ferguson, a lea...

The hijab—the head covering donned by many Muslim women in public—isn’t typically considered synonymous with high fashion, especially in the western world. But times are changing.Hijabs were spotted high and low at New York Fashion Week, on the catwalk and in the street style of attendees. The event featured its first show of hijabs worn with every every outfit. Indonesian Muslim designer An...

IN THE WORLD of electric vehicles, Tesla gets most of the love. Over 100,000 of Elon Musk’s big, bad autos are zooming around the world, gasoline-free. But how many of those can claim to take an additional 40-odd cars off the road—each?That’s the promise of the Catalyst E2 Series, a new electric bus debuting today that’s aimed squarely at city public transit.The bus from Proterra, a leading...

When it comes to banking, millennials are an anomaly. The Venmo generation doesn’t visit bank branches, write checks, or even use credit cards.By one estimate, 63% of millennials don’t have credit cards, so it’s curious they’re suddenly fawning over a new, perhaps viral, card on the market. The Chase Sapphire Reserve has been a hit since it was revealed in late August. It’s taken on covete...

Russian studio DarkDesignGroup has come up with a collection of concept PANTONE condoms inspired by the color system. Each color corresponds to a particular fruit and its flavor. The range includes mango, banana, apple, grape and watermelon. Would you like to see these PANTONE condoms become a reality? [taxi]

New report on emerging tech in next five years also points to personal data lockers, commonplace augmented reality, and much smarter location analytics. Marketers will need to transform from campaigns to real-time, continuous interaction with customers via intelligent agents.So says Forrester Research VP and principal analyst Brian Hopkins, co-author (with Adam Silverman) of a new Forrester Res...

Walmart just patented a system based on mini-robots that can control shopping carts, as well as complete a long list of duties once reserved for human employees. Last week, Walmart was granted a patent for a new system that allows shopping carts to drive themselves, untouched by customers and employees. However, the system goes far beyond self-driving carts, with details on automated devices th...

Amazon is absolutely killing it in online retail and its lead continues to grow, according to a new note published by RBC Capital.The note shared a number of charts to illustrate this point, based on the results of a recent survey it ran against 2,024 people, of whom 1,682 had shopped on Amazon over the past 12 months.The first chart shows that Amazon is the clear mindshare winner when it comes...