Businesses today are extra careful about where they place their money — if they invest at all, that is. This week, we take a look at how companies are investing. In some cases, firms are investing in outsourced services to stay ahead of the competition. In other scenarios, it’s a business owner’s friends and family…
Packaging firm Thong Guan Industries Bhd sees rising orders for food wraps from its Asian customers and the weaker ringgit lifting its earnings this year. The company is projecting a “double-digit percentage” growth in its revenue and bottom line. “Orders for stretch-film and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) food wraps have risen by about 20% so far…
Content, the life and death of any new piece of consumer technology. Whether it’s quantity or quality, if the content does not justify the cost, the medium dies. Virtual Reality has so far struggled slightly with content production, but this might change. Technavio, a market research company, has published their findings on the state of…
Before Nicki Deren received her multicooker as a Christmas gift a few years ago, she’d heard the word “multicooker” before. But she didn’t know why she needed one. “It’s more culinary than the Crock-Pot because you can cook things the way they are supposed to be cooked instead of throwing everything into the pot and…
Not too far in the future, when you reach for a healthy drink, it might be full of water from a cactus.Your main course at dinner might be a pear-like fruit from Southeast Asia that does a remarkable job of imitating meat. The next candy bar your children bite into might be infused with mushrooms…
The U.S. market for wearable technologies in education is expected to grow at a rate of nearly 46 percent per year through 2020, according to market research firm Technavio. Much of the growth in the wearables market will take place at colleges and universities, Technavio notes, as faculty use smartwatches, virtual reality (VR) headsets, fitness…
Data Centre Alliance (DCA) is committed to developing and improving the standards of the data centre infrastructure sector and, as the sector booms, security standards have never been more important. In 2015, the data centre market in the U.S. alone was valued at just over $115 billion; and it continues to grow at a rate…
Automotive manufacturers were early adopters of robots, but now any industry that uses production processes and systems can benefit from automation. Today’s robots are flexible enough to handle a wide variety of tasks. They still build cars, but they can also handle more complicated jobs, which is why stakeholders in defense, healthcare, retail, food and…
Robots paved the way for automation in the automotive manufacturing industry, but have since made their way into almost every sector that could conceivably benefit from them. Indeed, the robots of today are so flexible that they can handle increasingly varied and ever-more complex tasks, which is why stakeholders in everything from defense and food…
Roshan Nanwani used to crawl to work gripping the gearstick of his car in bumper-to-bumper traffic, now he beats out tunes in the air with his left hand. The 29-year-old Puducherry-based businessman has replaced his three manual transmission cars-Hyundai i10 and i20, and Honda Civic-with automatics-Honda Brio, Hyundai Grand and Mercedes-Benz GLA. Sales of…
