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, 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This smartphone technology 3-D maps your meal and counts its calories.There are already plenty of apps that let people estimate how many calories are in the foods they're eating. However, most of these programs require users to either guess at their portion sizes, or actually weigh the food. That's where the University of Washington's NutriRay3D comes in. It's a smartphone device/app combo, tha...

Visit.brussels installed phones and live webcams in Brussels that enabled tourists to call locals, boosting tourism after recent terror alerts.After a significant drop in tourism following the citywide lockdown — which occurred after the Paris attacks — Visit.brussels launched a project to let locals talk to travelers, and explain in real-time the safe, beautiful scenes in their city, contrar...

For our money, and pretty much everyone else’s, this is the chart that best explains the parlous state of global financial markets. Money poured into the emerging markets over the last three decades. Now, like a nasty riptide, it’s pulling out.Numbers released this week from Institute for International Finance show net capital outflows of roughly $735 billion in 2015, including the group’s b...