A building contractor we’ll call Bob meets with a client to discuss ideas for a bathroom renovation. Rather than visiting a distributor’s showroom, Bob uses his iPad to display a 3-D visualization of the client’s bathroom. Bob and the client experiment with options for the colors of tiles, fittings, and sanitary ceramics. Bob uses a smartphone app provided by the producer of these materials...

Fossil, the popular watch maker, has a new family member. For $260 million (about £170m, AU$364m), Misfit will join up under the Fossil Group, though it will keep making its own wearables."We will continue to develop activity trackers under the Misfit brand and Fossil Group will scale Misfit technology across Fossil, Skagen and a targeted portion of its portfolio of 16 brands in 2016," a Misfi...

The Hywind Scotland pilot park will be the world's first wind farm with five wind turbines generating six megawatts each.In a deal between the Scottish government and Norwegian oil company Statoil, five wind turbines with a capacity of six megawatts each will be set on floating structures some 15 miles (25 km) off the northeast coast of Scotland near Peterhead. The Hywind pilot park, as it's na...

China expects the new two child policy will result in an extra 17 million babies born within the next five years – more than three million more each year than at present. In some of those years, there are expected to be more than 20 million births.Ninety million of the 140 million child-bearing age women who have been married and given birth to a child would now be allowed to have a second.Pri...

The OneBlade Razor is made from German stainless steel, PVD coated for corrosion resistance, hand-polished, Teflon coated springs… heck even the blade is supposed to be some fancy Platinum-coated Japanese Feather blade. It only uses the one blade, hence the name, and is a limited edition item that’s meant to be passed down generation to generation. Replacement blades work out to about $1 each...

Nancy delivers legal, CBD-containing hemp products, for those who want the benefits of cannabis without its psychoactive effects.As legislations soften, cannabis is becoming more marketable across the US. Following from our recent coverage of an organic marijuana subscription package, Nancy is offering subscription services with a range of cannabis-derived products aimed at those who use it for...

China’s online shopping holiday “Singles’ Day” broke all previous records when it wrapped up at midnight last night (Nov. 11) in Beijing—Chinese shoppers bought $14.3 billion of merchandise through e-commerce giant Alibaba alone, and that figure doesn’t include billions more on competing websites.That $14.3 billion figure blew through expectations, and beat last year’s number by 60%:It d...

Now Virgin America, the stylish relative newcomer to the US passenger air industry, is launching an outdoor and digital campaign that claims its competitors are doing the very same thing. The airline’s agency for the work is Eleven Inc.“Most airlines promote new products and services that may in reality only be available on a small portion of their fleet — so travelers may see a flashy looki...

Helpful reminder: It still pays to attend elite business schools.Sofi, an online lender that specializes in refinancing student loans owed by high-earning young people, compiled some data on which MBA programs have graduates with the highest average salary. The information is based on 50,000 MBA student loan refinancing applications from Jan. 2014 to Aug. 2015. Here’s what they found.Sofi’s r...