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Water, Water Everywhere—in Bottles
[Business]
2015/09/15 10:07
With flood of new brands, water is on track to outsell soda by 2017.Nestlé, whose water brands include Pure Life and Poland Spring, sold more water than Dr Pepper Snapple Group sold soda last year, making Nestlé—not Dr Pepper—the No. 3 company in the U.S. for nonalcoholic beverages. Nestlé, whose water brands include Pure Life and Poland Spring, sold more water than Dr Pepper Snapple Group...
(Infographic) How Your Age Affects What You Share on Social Media
[Consumer]
2015/09/15 10:06
What brands can learn from students to grandparents.Nearly everyone and their mother is on social media. Literally. But, thankfully, that's where the similarity ends. When it comes to sharing across social media, the generational divide is stark.Accenture Interactive's Acquity Group's 2015 Next Generation of Commerce Study took a deep look into social habits across demographics. "Our study look...
(PDF) Deep Shift - Technology Tipping Points and Societal Impact
[Business]
2015/09/14 11:10
Have we reached a tipping point for technology? Hold on tight. We are about to enter a period of unprecedented change, like nothing else you have ever seen in the past.Now, I know that everyone says this, and usually they are overstating the case. Indeed, since the Industrial Revolution, we have had 200 years of consistent change. But while these changes have been astounding, they have often be...
(PDF) Accenture - Customer 2020 : Are You Future-Ready ?
[Business]
2015/09/14 11:09
U.S. “Switching Economy” Up 29 Percent since 2010 as Companies Struggle to Keep Up with the Nonstop Customer, Finds Accenture Despite heavy investment, only 11 percent of U.S. consumers strongly agree companies are effectively converging digital, mobile, social and traditional channels U.S. companies are struggling to keep pace with their customers’ “always on” nature and greater use of di...
The ‘Hospital Bed’ Gets a Makeover
[Product]
2015/09/14 11:08
Sales of adjustable beds get a lift, as retailers promote features such as massage, USB ports and anti-snoring functions.Bed makers have been spiffing up styling for adjustable beds, which include features like massage and remotes. What was once known as the hospital bed has become one of the hottest products in the U.S. furniture industry.Bed makers have stripped off guard rails, spiffed up st...
(Infographic) Apple vs Android Insights from 3,000,000 Results
[Product]
2015/09/14 11:06
With Apple expected to reveal a new iPhone model today, we figured it was an ideal time to dig deep into our 3DMark benchmark data and see what we could learn about the competition between Apple and Android. Working with more than three million 3DMark benchmark results from the last two years we've gathered some unique insights into one helpful infographic.Infographic : http://www.futuremark.co...
The 25 Most Popular Mobile Apps in America
[Consumer]
2015/09/14 11:06
A look at the top 25 most popular mobile apps in the US, as measured by comScore, leads to several observations.1. As the US smartphone market matures, the mobile-app leaders aren’t changing.Some 21 of the top 25 apps, as ranked by comScore, were the same in June 2015 as a year ago, when we first published this list. Eight of the top 10 were the same. Those were: Facebook, YouTube, Google Sear...
How Much Online Shoppers Around the World Are Spending
[Consumer]
2015/09/14 11:05
Over the past few years, online shopping has become increasingly popular around the world. In markets such as the United Kingdom, Japan and Germany, e-commerce penetration has already climbed past 70% of the adult population, and emerging markets such as Brazil and China are seeing rapid growth in online shopping adoption.But how much are people around the world actually spending online? Accord...
(Video) Anti-Counterfeiting 3D Barcodes Could be Molded Into Products
[Tech]
2015/09/14 11:04
The first 3D barcode which can be built into products during manufacture has been developed by Yorkshire engineers. The anti-counterfeit marker is virtually invisible to the naked eye and impossible to detect by touch. It can be read using a laser scanner, allowing anything from phones to pills to be tracked and verified as authentic.Made public today, Wednesday 9 September 2015, at the British...
