Watershed’s $70M Fund Raising Confirms Investor Enthusiasm For Digital Net Zero Solutions
[Investing]
2022/02/18 09:07
San Francisco-based carbon management software provider Watershed announced on February 8th that it had raised $70 million in a Series B investment round. The deal was co-led by storied Silicon Valley investors Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins who valued Watershed at a cool $1 billion putting a unicorn-sized marker down in the booming carbon management software market. This is very impressive progre...
America's Favorite Food Delivery Services
[Business]
2022/02/18 09:06
As the pandemic forced restaurants to close and diners to stay at home, food delivery services thrived during the Covid-19 crisis. Whether its ordering directly from a restaurant or using one of many available delivery platforms, U.S. consumers have the agony of choice when ordering in. But which platforms are the most popular?According to findings from Statista's Global Consumer Survey, DoorDa...
(Video) Dell’s Bold Idea : A Laptop You Can Actually Repair
[Product]
2022/02/18 09:04
It’s a lagging response to the “right to repair” movement. REPAIRABILITY SUSTAINABILITY DELL CONCEPT LUNA LENOVO APPLE SELF REPAIR CONSUMER ELECTRONICSIN DECEMBER 2021, just before CES, the world’s leading tech event, Dell introduced Concept Luna, a reimagining of the laptop PC that focuses on repairability.Modern laptops are notoriously difficult (and sometimes impossible) to repair, a pro...
The Supreme One-Handed Editing Camera
[Design]
2022/02/18 09:04
Supreme is one of the leading streetwear brands in the world today. Its style may not appeal to everyone but it is no doubt a well-known name even if the products are so expensive. The premium price, they say, is because of rarity and originality, plus the interesting collaborations it has with other popular fashion brands.If you buy anything from Supreme, you’re cool—or so what many fans say...
(Infographic) Data Collection & Privacy in a Post-Cookie World
[Consumer]
2022/02/18 09:03
Data collection in a world that has heavily transitioned to an online setting is one of the most vital business tools available to companies to grow their marketing base and revenue. Cookies and tags are just a couple of the components of online tracking, giving websites the ability to track and store information about users including which products they purchase, which pages they view, and how...
(PDF) BCG - Consumers Want Privacy. Marketers Can Deliver.
[Consumer]
2022/02/17 09:10
With a privacy-first approach to data-driven marketing, companies can build trust with consumers and create lasting value, new research from BCG and Google shows.Marketers today face a tricky paradox: on one hand, the fight for customer attention requires ever more relevant messages tailored to people’s interests at the moment they are most interested. On the other hand, customers are increasi...
JPMorgan Becomes First Bank to Enter Metaverse
[Business]
2022/02/17 09:09
Blockchain unit Onyx welcomes visitors in Decentraland. Bank releases paper on how businesses can explore metaverse.JPMorgan Chase & Co. has a lounge in the metaverse: Visitors are greeted by a digital portrait of Jamie Dimon and a roaming tiger. Walk upstairs and you’ll see an executive’s presentation on the crypto economy.The lounge is located at the Metajuku mall in Decentraland, a bro...
(Paper) Cambridge Scientists Develop Fully Woven, Smart Display
[Tech]
2022/02/17 09:08
The new smart textile display is made up of fiber-based LEDs which can be activated from a range of embedded sensors.Textiles have been getting smarter for years, but they’re usually fairly limited in size and scope. Now a team of scientists led by Cambridge has woven together a 46-inch textile display, loaded with LEDs, sensors and energy storage, that can be made using existing industrial ma...
Here’s The Mumbai Gallery Behind India’s First NFT Art Auction
[Business]
2022/02/17 09:07
The demand for NFTs isn’t so small that it hasn’t taken India by storm. Over 2021, the country has become home to a growing coterie of digital creators and multiplying NFT marketplaces from BeyondLife.club to Bollycoin to WazirX, the latter established by India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.[Prinseps has entered the country's burgeoning NFT market with a sale of 35 Gobardhan Ash NFTs —...