TREND REPORTS
Lacoste Plays With Icons For 2025
[Design]
2025/05/13 10:09
A new chapter in fashion sport. Following the striking success of the 2024 “PLAY BIG” campaign, Lacoste makes its latest move with the witty and beautifully crafted “PLAY WITH ICONS”.Imagined by long-term creative partner, BETC Paris, the brand campaign celebrates two kinds of icons: Lacoste's timeless fashion-sport pieces and the legendary people who wear them.The global campaign reveals i...
Unbundling the BPO : How AI Will Disrupt Outsourced Work
[Business]
2025/05/13 10:08
The business process outsourcing (BPO) market is massive. The industry’s market cap reached over $300 billion in 2024 and is forecasted to be over $525 billion by 2030. Enterprises lean on BPOs because they provide a cost-effective way to perform necessary and high-volume, yet mundane and repetitive work – like customer support, outsourced IT, and financial claims processing – that they do n...
Simcoach Games Raises $265K in Seed Funding
[Investing]
2025/05/13 10:07
Simcoach Games, a Pittsburgh, PA-based health tech company specializing in gamified skill-building tools for individuals with behavioral disabilities, raised $265K in Seed funding.The round was led by Richard King Mellon Foundation.The company intends to use the funds to develop three games focused on building job readiness for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, teach...
(PDF) NRF - 2024 Consumer Returns in the Retail Industry
[Business]
2025/05/13 10:06
To understand the shifting landscape that is retail returns, NRF and Happy Returns, a UPS company, explored both consumer and retailer perspectives and priorities for the returns experience in 2024 Consumer Returns in the Retail Industry. The report explores the impact of returns for the retail industry, consumer expectations for returns, retailers’ priorities and strategies for returns, the c...
(Video) Clever Cargo Robot Uses Legs and Wheels to Tote Boxes Without Human Help
[Product]
2025/05/13 10:05
The LEVA robot takes its name from the Latin word "levitas," which is in turn the root of the English word "levitation".Ground-going delivery robots are already streamlining operations in various industries, but they typically still have to be loaded and unloaded by humans. That's where the multi-terrain LEVA bot comes in, as it can autonomously lift and drop off cargo boxes weighing up to 85 k...
(Infographic) Charting U.S. Trade Relationships
[Investing]
2025/05/13 10:04
As global policy uncertainty continues to dominate the headlines, maintaining a balanced perspective is crucial. For investors, understanding the broader trade landscape—including where America’s largest trade deficits and surpluses lie—can help identify both emerging risks and overlooked opportunities.In partnership with New York Life Investments, this visual breaks down the key players in...
Volkswagen Camper Van Explodes Living Space Via Clever Pop-slide Roof
[Product]
2025/05/13 10:03
Tonke's innovative pop-and-slide roof creates a larger bed while also adding to the headroom in the main van cabin.We already knew that Tonke had a different spin on the pop-up camper roof in store for the new Volkswagen ID. Buzz, but we didn't previously know exactly how it worked. The Dutch camper specialist released a video this month showing the new expandable sleeper roof design in action...
The 2025 TIME100 : The 100 Most Influential People of 2025
[Business]
2025/05/12 09:10
The 2025 TIME100 is here: TIME's annual list of the world's most influential people.What happens next? As journalists, that is the question we get asked more than any other, particularly these days. As we were closing this issue, President Donald Trump introduced a tariff plan that upended the global economic system. For many readers, the move accelerated the sense that almost everything was sh...
Under Armour's ‘No Weigh Backpack' is Made for Movement
[Product]
2025/05/12 09:09
Under Armour’s most advanced backpack ever isn’t just innovation—it’s interventionFor years, athletes have carried the same burden – and we are not talking about expectations or pressure. We are talking about their bags. Backpacks have been quietly doing damage for decades—the weight, the strain, the pull on your shoulders after a long day of carrying gear, laptops, and textbooks. That fa...
