The global nuclear medicine market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of over 8 percent from 2016 to 2020. What’s driving its growth? According to a new Technavio market report, it’s the same conditions that are topping global mortality lists — cardiovascular disease and cancer. Over 14 million new cases of…
Buttoned-down Unilever just paid $1 billion dollars for the Dollar Shave Club. The scrappy startup, launched in 2012, offered a blades-by-subscription service for as little as $3 a month and quickly grew to a team of 45 engineers and 3.2 million subscribers. The deal is full of intriguing details. Unilever paid five times what Dollar…
For years, teachers, principals, and technologists have looked for ways to enhance the educational experience with new techniques. The days of black boards, binded cover books are over, with the rate of adoption in digital learning among corporate organizations and academic institutes growing., Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend, growing usage of wearable e-learning devices,…
Although additive manufacturing has made some impressive gains over traditional subtractive manufacturing, the battle of manufacturing between these two technologies is far from over.Consider a trio of recent market forecasts from SmarTech, Infiniti Research Ltd. and Technavio; the first covers additive manufacturing with metal powders, while the second and third focus on machining centers. Despite…
The market for wireless local area network (WLAN) equipment is growing, both for enterprises and consumers.Overall, across both consumer and enterprise, analyst firm IDC reports that there was 6.7 percent revenue growth year-over-year in the second quarter of 2016. Enterprise growth is stronger than consumer, with IDC reporting 9.4 percent revenue growth for the strongest…
A Malaysian organisation has created a new logo marking halal products made by Muslim businesses.The Malaysian Institute of International Islamic Corporation (Ikiam) and the Malaysian Rubber Industry Smallholders Development Authority (Risda) say the logo will be designed and produced early next year. Only 11% of Muslim-owned companies are currently registered as halal-compliant for the export…
Do you have a landline phone at home? Nearly half of U.S. homes do not, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which tracks phone ownership in this country as a part of its National Health Interview Survey. In business, it’s becoming more commonplace to dial voice calls from laptops and transfer calls…
Advances in Internet-based communication technologies don’t stop bringing in challenges for the telecommunication industry. In the digital era, tools like WhatsApp, Facebook, Viber and Twitter have already eroded traditional profits of telecom operators for SMS and voice calls. And now there is a new threat that has already begun to eat away at the revenues…
Often described as a regularity minefield, the terms “cosmetic cowboy”, “botched” and “bogus” are used with alarming regularity when referring to both surgical and non-surgical treatments.It may seem ironic then that recent statistics have shown exponential growth in the sector. The global facial aesthetics market is expected to exceed £3.8 billion by 2020, according to…
Shoal Games Ltd., owner of Trophy Bingo (http://www.trophybingo.com), a mobile game live in the Apple, Google and Amazon App Stores, and Garfield’s Bingo, currently in production and scheduled for a Q4 2016 release, today announced it is entering into a licensing arrangement with Rooplay Inc. to commercialize its innovative cloud-based gaming platform and consumer brand…
