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Category Archives: Tech & Innovation Trends
Creating Innovative, High-Fashion Wearable Devices
Merging fashion with function, Google and Luxottica are certainly making wearable technology more wearable. Continue reading
How to make wearables stick: Use them to change human behavior
#wearables is the thing of the future. No, actually big data is – you consume all these wearables so that you can collect data for companies who will in turn know your tastes and preferences, and then market you things more powerfully. Continue reading
Religious people are… dumber?
Originally posted on Growth Hacks For Geeks:
In a recently published scholarly article titled Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, researchers Edward Dutton from the University of Oulu, Finland and Richard Lynn from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland argued that interdisciplinary differences in religiosity and political perspective among academics are predicted by interdisciplinary differences in intelligence between…
The irrational rationality behind Facebook’s $16 billion acquisition of WhatsApp
Originally posted on Gigaom:
Another day and another acquisition — and another one that is jaw dropping and seemingly insane. Less than a week after Japan’s Rakuten acquired Viber for $900 million, Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced that he is buying WhatsApp for a whopping $16 billion in cash and stock. Add…
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[Repost] Want to start small with Big Data? DEXTRA is here to help!
Note: Article by Satya Kothimangalam. Originally posted on Your Story (India’s No. 1 media platform for entrepreneurs). Everybody has heard of how Big Data is going to transform every industry – but businesses still remain sceptical to invest time and money to hire a data science team in-house. Dextra is demonstrating how businesses can harness data … Continue reading
Holiday party dress central: How we started Rent the Runway
“What Sept. 11 had done is wreak havoc on many different industries in the country, and I always think that in chaos there’s innovation. So I wanted to find the most chaotic industry out there, because I felt I would learn a huge amount. There would be a lot of change and transformation.” – Jennifer … Continue reading
Snapchat hacked: 4.6 million usernames and phone numbers lifted
Originally posted on Gigaom:
Three days ago, ephemeral communication app Snapchat released a statement on its website responding to a group of security professionals at Gibson Security who posted what they claimed to be numerous exploits of the app’s API. The hot startup waved those claims away in the post: Theoretically, if someone were able…
The Wine Tasting Experience, Now Brought Online.
Note: Article originally published on Poached Mag. E-commerce has truly exploded in the past 10 years. Ordering things through the net used to be reserved for small-ticket items (remember eBay & blogshops?), and other items you don’t mind “taking a chance” on. Now it has evolved to include premium items, from clothing (Inverted Edge), to … Continue reading
The 10 Best Design Trends of 2013
To me, design is sometimes almost as important as the product. Continue reading
