TREND REPORTS
Musical Tastes Around the World
[Consumer]
2021/08/11 09:06
Music might be a universal language but what sounds like music to one’s ears differs between people and countries.Despite some regional differences occurring in the data collected by the Statista Global Consumer Survey, the works of great classical composers, rock icons and pop divas have reached every corner of the world, as seen by the popularity of these genres around the globe.Despite hip-...
Upscribe, Raising $4M, Wants to Drive Subscription-First DTC Brand Growth
[Investing]
2021/08/11 09:05
Upscribe founder and CEO Dileepan Siva watched the retail industry make a massive shift to subscription e-commerce for physical products over the past decade, and decided to get in it himself in 2019.The Los Angeles-based company, developing subscription software for direct-to-consumer e-commerce merchants, is Siva’s fourth startup experience and first time as founder. He closed a $4 million s...
TikTok Overtakes Facebook as World's Most Downloaded App
[Business]
2021/08/11 09:04
China's TikTok was the most downloaded social media app in 2020 -- ahead of Facebook and three other apps the U.S. company owns.A global survey of downloads in 2020 shows TikTok, a video-sharing app developed in China, on top of the list of social media providers for the first time since the study was first conducted in 2018.According to Nikkei Asia, a global survey of downloads in 2020 showed...
(Video) Audi’s New Skysphere Concept is Two Cars in One
[Design]
2021/08/11 09:03
The car, while only a concept so far, gives us a glimpse into the future of Audi design and engineering, and we’re seriously here for it.When we first heard about the Skysphere, Audi sounded a little cagey. They told us it was a sports car, but they also told us it was autonomous. It almost seemed like they couldn’t get their story straight. Well… now it makes sense. It’s both.The main feat...
(PDF) BCG - Global Wealth Report 2021
[Investing]
2021/08/10 09:10
Sometimes, it takes having the world turned upside down to understand what it should look like right-side up.After a year and a half of norm-busting events, individuals and businesses know what is essential and what is not. Having adapted to extraordinary challenges, we’ve all learned that it’s possible to pivot in ways we couldn’t have imagined before. And having lived through dizzying chan...
(Video) Louis Vuitton is The Latest Luxury Brand to Make Its Own Video Game
[Product]
2021/08/10 09:09
The fashion house is marking what would have been his 200th birthday.Louis Vuitton is kicking off a bumper celebration on what would have been its founder's 200th birthday. The fashion house – which will be hosting a series of celebratory activations over the next few months – has today launched a new game which is inspired by the journey Louis Vuitton made as a 14-year-old man.Vuitton was ju...
Two Ex-Apple Rock Stars Have Raised $30M to Build The Next iPhone - HUMANE
[Investing]
2021/08/10 09:08
Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno helped create some of Apple’s biggest hits. Now their startup Humane is at work on something ambitious—and mysterious.Investors poured nearly $8 billion dollars into synthetic biology last year. This company is leading the field.In 2017, two of Apple’s top design and technology executives decided to leave the company to start their own venture with an amb...
Will Luxury Brands Get Tangled Up in China’s Gaming Crackdown ?
[Business]
2021/08/10 09:07
Louis Vuitton has infused gaming into its global strategy since debuting a League of Legends collaboration in 2019. Beijing’s widening tech crackdown — spanning e-commerce, education, finance, and more — has kept companies on their toes and sparked a $1 trillion stock market selloff in July. State media criticisms of China’s red-hot gaming sector represent a source of concern for luxury bra...
(Video) Energy Dome Uses Carbon Dioxide as a Grid-Scale Battery
[Tech]
2021/08/10 09:06
Italian company Energy Dome says its "carbon dioxide batteries" offer a fast-response, cheap, grid-scale energy storage alternative to lithium batteries.Carbon dioxide may finally get its chance to become a solution in the climate crisis. Italy's Energy Dome says its CO2 batteries will store energy at less than half the cost of lithium "big batteries," while also being very responsive to load d...
