TREND REPORTS
(M&A) The 10 Most Active Acquirers in Payments Tech
[Investing]
2015/06/01 11:25
Google, Samsung, PayPal and Visa have pursued payments tech M&A in 2015. Here's who's been most acquisitive in payments tech.Payments tech M&A is heating up big time in 2015.With Apple launching Apple Pay last fall, Google working on its own Android Pay system to tokenize card numbers and payments startups attracting big VC funding, a variety of players from Samsung to PayPal to Visa ha...
(Video) Finger Pulse Monitor Illuminates Sanctuary Based on Your Stress Levels
[Design]
2015/06/01 11:24
Dynamic Sanctuary, based on the 2016 Ford Edge interior, creates a deeper connection between humans and architecture.Ford partnered with Brooklyn-based design studio The Principals for an installation at Sight Unseen OFFSITE that explored the idea of escapism. An inspiration source for the project was the 2016 Ford Edge and in particular the vehicle’s interior which was designed with a sanctua...
Monthly Trend Report - June. 2015 Edition
[Trendbird]
2015/06/01 11:03
MONTHLY TREND REPORT - June. 2015 Edition Released !"TRENDBIRD (What's the Next Big Thing ?) is a Global Trend Research & Consulting Service that Instantly Delivers Industry Expert Information on Emerging Trends & Future Business Opportunities from Around the World, Ahead of The Curve." * 글로벌 리딩 기업의 C-Level 경영진 및 경영전략, 기술연구소, 신사업, 마케팅, 디자인 등 핵심 전략부서...
(Infographic) The History of Commerce - From Cattle to Bitcoin
[Business]
2015/05/26 11:10
Forget about ecommerce for a moment! Imagine trading one of your prized cattle for a piece of land to raise your family in 7000 BC. That’s how it was done back then. Boy how times have changed. Now think about the first ATM in 1972, and how remarkable it was for people to walk up to a magical machine that spewed out physical cash after a few button clicks.The history of ecommerce is truly amaz...
(Video) Selfie Sticks Endanger 'Egotastic Narc-Artists,' Warns Pizza Hut PSA
[Business]
2015/05/26 11:09
Selfie sticks are popping up everywhere, and a new fake public service announcement shows why that's a bad thing for your ego -- and basically everyone and everything around you.A new public service announcement on YouTube warns of a far greater danger than the world has ever faced -- selfie sticks.Pizza Hut, which is trying to get you to buy some new kind of pizza it's selling, posted the funn...
Mobile Valuations Split as Investments and Exits Diverge
[Investing]
2015/05/26 11:09
Mobile investment is growing as quickly as mobile usage and revenue, with $14 billion invested in Q1 2015, up 120 percent compared to Q1 2014 (650 percent higher than Q1 2012). That’s a bull market in anybody’s terms.While the mobile exit market (M&As and IPOs) outpaced investment market growth up to Q2 2014, it has been trending downwards since the mobile IPO fiesta of Q3 2013 to Q2 2014...
The World's First 3D Fabric Printer - Electroloom
[Tech]
2015/05/26 11:08
Inspired by 3D printers, the idea came from a gang of entrepreneurs after working at California Polytechnic State University. This unique process of creating fabric from scratch is called electrospinning, "an electrospinning process to convert liquid solutions into solid fibers which are then deposited onto a 3D mold. We call this process Field Guided Fabrication, or FGF. Essentially, an intern...
The Future is Mobile and Apps, Except That it isn't.
[Business]
2015/05/26 11:07
There are two charts that capture a lot of the way we think about mobile today. In the first, we see that mobile devices are approaching a majority of traffic, and in the second, that a large proportion of all web traffic (a majority in the USA in this instance) and the vast majority of mobile traffic is coming from apps rather than the web. However, if you're not careful you can get quite the...
(Video) Supermarket's "Indoor Sat-Nav" Guides Shoppers to Discounts
[Tech]
2015/05/26 11:06
A newly-refurbished Carrefour hypermarket in Lille, France, has had its fluorescent lighting replaced with LED fixtures containing Philips Visible Light Communication technologyA supermarket in France has become the first in the world to install an "indoor positioning system" created by Philips. The LED-based technology acts like a sat-nav for shoppers, providing in-store directions to shopping...
