(PDF) Breaking to Bits : Digital Disruption in Investment Banking
As predicted in two previous reports by The Boston Consulting Group, return on equity (ROE) in the capital markets and investment banking (CMIB) in...
Uber Funding Talks Highlight the Speedy Pace of Investments
Uber raised a total of more than $2 billion from investors in June and December last year — and is now back for another round. The anonymous messa...
Top Publishers Saw 15% Engagement Growth on Instagram in April
In April, U.S. media publishers accounted for 783 million total social actions, with 524 million actions from Facebook, 35 million from Twitter and...
1 in 3 Americans Say They Will Never Consider a Self-Driving Car
Self-driving cars may have a long road ahead before winning over mainstream American consumers.According to a Harris Poll survey, charted for us by...
Fraunhofer : Pressure-Monitoring Stockings to Prevent Wounds in Dia...
Sensor-equipped stockings designed to save diabetics' feet.Even if you're not diabetic, you've probably heard that they need to watch out for probl...
Aisin Seiki Propose Culture's Future with Imagine New Days Exhibition
Presented at superstudio, during the 2015 milan design week, designers at aisin seiki co., ltd. created the ‘imagine new days’ exhibition which p...
New Starbucks Concept Store : An “Espresso Shot” of a Store Exper...
Starbucks is expanding its already ubiquitous presence in New York with the opening of its first express service outlet in the city’s Financial Di...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Pricing in Retail : Setting Strategy
This article—our first in a series on pricing in retail—focuses on key value categories (KVCs) and key value items (KVIs) as a core part of price...
(Patent) Amazon Wants an Army of Drones to Chase You Down to Get Yo...
Details about how Amazon's proposed delivery drones may work have been published by the US Patent Office.According to the patent, the drones will b...
3D Flooring Lets You Roll Out of Bed into Paradise
An epoxy layering technique from Imperial Interiors makes decorative floors pop out at the viewer.Bathroom floors can be a bore unless you’re cust...
Circa : What Went Wrong
Circa, the clever smartphone news app, failed to live up to its promises. The fiasco stems from the smartphone advertising market’s inherent weakn...
The Earth will Spend $91.5B on Video Games This Year
We’re going to spend a great big pile of cash on games in 2015.The global gaming market will reach $91.5 billion this year, according to an upcomi...
MirrorMirror Reflects You and Your Digital Info
MirrorMirror displays digital info, along with the user's reflection (Photo: Purdue University)Doing your hair and brushing your teeth are chores t...
(Infographic) Evolution of The IT Pro
Does the cloud mean extinction for the IT Pro ? Or Is It just another professional evolution ? Has there ever been a decade in IT where things didn...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Learning from South Korea’s Mobile-Retailing Boom
As omnichannel retailing transforms this nation of 50 million people, retailers around the world should be watching—and learning.How much do South...
(IPO) Fitbit is Going Public and It’s Actually Very Profitable
Fitbit, the maker of myriad step-tracking devices, has taken the first step to going public, lodging IPO documents with US regulators this afternoo...
Spine Optics Redefines the Hinges on Your Glasses
Loz models the Spine Optics frames – but are they making HIM look that good, or vice versa?I wouldn't normally pay too much attention to such a se...
Blockchain - The Next Big Thing
ASKED TO NAME an event that has reshaped finance in recent years, bankers will point to the collapse of Lehman Brothers on September 15th 2008, the...
Footwear Companies Leverage 3D Tech for Customized Products and Ser...
The days of struggling to find a shoe that fits perfectly without squeezing toes or rubbing heels could soon be over. Indeed, several companies spe...
Star Trek-like Transparent Aluminum Could Protect Phones, Windows a...
Researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have announced a breakthrough in the construction of spinel, also known as transparent alumin...
A Future Fit Band for Diabetes - Glycount
Glycount is a wearable diabetes management system based on near-future tech that enables users to measure blood sugar levels instantaneously, conti...
(Infographic) How To Tip Around the World
In the US, it's customary to tip servers at least 15% at both bars and restaurants.But that's not always the case in the rest of the world. In Japa...
A Steep Rise in Apple's R&D Spending Points to a Big New Project Un...
Apple’s R&D spending is going through the roof, which suggests something big is comingApple goes to great lengths to maintain secrecy around f...
The Difference Between Living In New York and San Francisco
After living in New York for five years, I recently moved to San Francisco. Neither city is clearly superior, but there are some distinct differenc...
Chinese Drone Maker DJI Raises $75M in Funding at a $10 Billion Val...
Chinese Drone Maker DJI Raises $75 Million From Accel Partners. Accel investment values SZ DJI Technology Co. at around $8 billion, sources say The...
(Video) McDonald's Invented This Clever Takeout Bag That's Also a Tray
Here's a nifty invention for people brave enough to eat McDonald's—the new "BagTray" from DDB Budapest.It is, as it sounds, a bag that's also a tr...
Marketing Automation Best Bets : 80% of Companies Increase Leads, 7...
If marketing automation is only five percent penetrated, but growing rapidly, there must be a lot of anxious, wondering marketers looking for syste...
Quip’s Subscription-Based Toothbrush Replacement Service Raises Se...
A startup called Quip, showcasing its service here today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley, believes it has a better way: a new brushes as...
The Touch-less Timing Tap
Are you one of those people who hates touching the faucet after you’ve washed your hands? Mind you, it’s a little OCD, but totally makes sense co...
(Infographic) the Rise of Entertainment on Demand
Streaming is up. Downloads are down.If we've learned anything from the Digital Content NewFronts, it's that production of premium video content is...
(Video) World's First Crowdsourced Modular Smartphone by Fonkraft
While we are waiting for Project Ara come to fruition, Fonkraft Technologies, an Australian start-up, steals the moment with Fonkraft Modular Smart...
(Infographic) Inside the Investor’s Mind
Whether you ever raise funding from investors or not, you as an entrepreneur really benefit from being able to see your business through the invest...