TREND REPORTS
(PDF) Mckinsey Time to Move : Sporting Goods 2024
[Business]
2024/03/12 09:10
Many sporting goods executives are looking to 2024 with more optimism. But in the year ahead, they will need to adapt to shifting consumer preferences, revisit planning practices, embrace ecosystems, and take action on sustainability.As the world continued its uneven progress in 2023, the sporting goods industry faced familiar challenges. Economic headwinds, persistent inflation, and regional c...
Apple Car Designs Give Tantalizing Look at What Might Have Been
[Design]
2024/03/12 09:09
The Apple car was a case study in what happens when corporate indecision, technological challenges and market realities combine: a wasted opportunity that sets back the company’s future.The Starters[The Volkswagen ID Buzz concept car from 2017.Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg]Around 2014, Apple Inc. had a plan that would diversify revenue and chart a future beyond the iPhone in one full s...
MIT - Is This The Future of Fashion ?
[Tech]
2024/03/12 09:08
Developed by the Self-Assembly Lab, the 4D Knit Dress uses several technologies to create a custom design and a custom fit, while addressing sustainability concerns.Students in the Self-Assembly Lab have been working with dynamic textiles for several years. The yarns they create can change shape, change property, change insulation, or become breathable. Previous applications to tailor garments...
CB Insights - State of CVC 2023 Report
[Investing]
2024/03/12 09:07
Corporate venture capital-backed deals and dollars fall to multi-year lows as CVCs shield themselves from the volatile tech market.The corporate venture capital (CVC) market has constricted amid corporate belt-tightening and subdued returns from startup exits. In 2023, deals from CVCs fell to 3,545 — the lowest level since 2019 — marking a 32% drop YoY. At the same time, fewer new CVCs are em...
Covariant is Building ChatGPT for Robots
[Tech]
2024/03/12 09:06
Covariant this week announced the launch of RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1). Peter Chen, the co-founder and CEO of the UC Berkeley artificial intelligence spinout tells TechCrunch the platform, “is basically a large language model (LLM), but for robot language.”RFM-1 is the result of, among other things, a massive trove of data collected from the deployment of Covariant’s Brain AI platfo...
International Tourism to Surpass Pre-Pandemic Levels in 2024
[Business]
2024/03/12 09:05
While few industries were spared by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic over the past three years, even fewer have been hit as hard as the tourism sector. After Covid-19 had made 2020 "the worst year in tourism history", international tourist arrivals increased by just 13 percent in 2021, as travel restrictions remained in place for long periods in many parts of the world. Now, nearly four year...
Korean Battery Makers Ease Driver Anxiety With Winter-Proof Cells
[Tech]
2024/03/12 09:04
Major battery makers seek to address driver concerns that risk holding back world's transition to electric vehicles.[An SK On display at the InterBattery exhibition on March 8 in Seoul.Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg]Cold weather performance, slow charging and range anxiety took center stage at South Korea’s biggest battery industry gathering.The issues are major sources of concern for p...
Can Recycled Paper Packaging Replace Bubble Wrap ? Flexi-Hex
[Product]
2024/03/12 09:03
The honeycomb design can protect everything from surfboards and smartphones to wine bottles.In the UK alone, 240,000 miles of bubble wrap are produced every year, and, although it can be recycled, the vast majority of this fossil-based packaging ends up in landfill. It’s crucial to find alternatives to plastic that don’t rely on the consumption of fossil fuels, and one Cornish B Corp has crea...
Quarterly (Silicon Valley) Trend Report - Q1. 2024 Edition
[Trendbird]
2024/03/11 09:10
TRENDBIRD Quarterly Report (Silicon Valley VC & Startup Trend Report) - Q1. 2024 Edition Released !* TRENDBIRD Quarterly Report는 혁신적인 기술과 비즈니스 모델로 단시간내에 폭발적인 성장을 통해, Unicorn으로 성장할 수 있는 혁신 스타트업들과 Next Big 혁신 비즈니스 / 테크 모델을 조기에 발굴할 수 있도록, 실리콘밸리의 메이저 벤처 캐피탈들에 의해 사업성과 차별성, 그리고 성장성이 검증된 유망 비즈...
Robotic, On-Demand Tech for Seamless EV Charging - Kolbev
[Tech]
2024/03/11 09:09
The technology is infrastructure-free, scalable, and allows users to control their charging from an app. According to a McKinsey survey, the availability of chargers is the most significant consideration of sceptical EV buyers. Hoping to tackle that is Kolbev, a Swiss-based company, which envisions a future where renewable energy seamlessly integrates into urban landscapes. The company’s innov...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Consumer Goods : A Changing Landscape for Successful M&A
[Investing]
2024/03/11 09:08
Buffeted by economic trends, consumer goods companies have diversified their M&A strategies, with winners balancing growth and margin expansion. Success ahead requires integration tailored to each deal’s thesis.Over the past decade, programmatic mergers and acquisitions—in which companies execute a series of smaller deals based on a specific business case—have consistently generated more...
(Paper) AI Face-Checking App to Size Up Depression - MoodCapture
[Tech]
2024/03/11 09:07
The MoodCapture app could allow people with major depressive disorder to maintain control of their condition.When someone is suffering from major depression, objectively self-gauging the severity of their condition can be challenging. Well, within just a few years, an artificially intelligent face-analyzing smartphone app may tell such folks how they're holding up.Currently being developed by a...
