CIOs expect more budget in 2022, and they’re spending it to fund composable business. Composable business is driving investing choices for the year ahead.Over the next year, CIOs expect IT budgets to grow 3.6% — the fastest year-over-year growth rate in more than a decade, according to the 2022 Gartner CIO and Technology Executive Survey. That’s a global average, with APAC CIOs expecting the...

Concept Art House isn’t just a little art house anymore. The creator of art for video games and nonfungible token (NFT) collectibles has raised $25 million.The San Francisco company is taking part in the same NFT boom that is benefiting artists, blockchain game companies, musicians, and celebrities. In many cases, Concept Art House is supplying the art that those parties use to sell collectibl...

Changes in Asia's consumer markets offer new and diverse opportunities for growth.Asia is the world’s consumption growth engine—miss Asia and you could miss half of the global picture, a $10 trillion consumption growth opportunity over the next decade. But Asia’s consumer markets are changing dynamically with new growth angles that offer opportunities for financial services players and consu...

Designed for Maxi-Cosi, a baby equipment brand, Coral is a modular baby car seat that would help parents to keep their baby close. Traveling with infant can be literally hefty, thankfully baby car seats on the market are specifically designed to fit all safety guidelines when driving around. However, since the product is designed to be used in a car, car baby seat doesn’t offer comfort and saf...

As brands seek ways to establish deeper, more personalized connections with consumers, they’re engaging social media influencers more heavily than in previous years. This increased focus speaks to both fragmenting media consumption and the significant engagement that many influencers boast across channels like YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.While influencer marketing was not born out of the pan...

An internet troll finds eternal punishment strapped to a hashtag-shaped pillory while a figure in an astronaut’s helmet floats in a paradise of self-obsession. These are just two of the otherwordly characters that inhabit SMACK’s contemporary interpretation of ‘the garden of earthly delights’, originally painted by hieronymus bosch between 1490 and 1510.The central panel of SMACK’s modern-...

As we enter the second holiday season during the pandemic, it’s evident that some shopping patterns and behaviors have been permanently altered while some new trends are here to stay.Holiday shopping—establishing the next normalConsumers and retail executives have adapted to the next normal. Four key insights emerged from our survey. Spending is up YoY, buoyed by high-income households. Digit...

SUMMIT one vanderbilt — the immersive four-level observatory at new york’s one vanderbilt skyscraper — opens to the public this week on 21st of october, 2021. Set on the top floors of the kohn pedersen fox (KPF)-designed tower, the project will feature three sky-high levels: transcendence, an euphoric multisensory experience which is the first chapter of air, an art installation conceived by...

When Tesla finally joined the S&P 500 index in December 2020, the profitability criterion - an eligible company's most recent quarter’s earnings and the sum of its trailing four consecutive quarters’ earnings must be positive - was the last box to be checked by the electric car maker. And while Tesla has a history of loss-making, even bringing it "within single-digit weeks" of bankruptcy...