A franchise model for local, on-demand. WashClub licensees are now operating in San Francisco and Oakland and it’s expected their pick-up and delivery of dry cleaning and wash-and-fold services will eventually be available throughout the greater Bay Area. Source: Another on-demand app joins fight over your dirty laundry heats up in San Francisco – San […]
Month: June 2016
The amount of time Americans spend interacting with media such as television, radio and internet-connected devices has grown significantly over the last year, according to a new survey. Americans spend 10 hours and 39 minutes per day interacting with screens, or at least listening to the radio, according to a Nielsen survey covering the first […]
Maybe 30 is the new 20. Data released this week from the Census Bureau show that 30-year-olds today — as compared to 30-years olds in 1975 — are less likely to have hit many of the milestones that have come to define adulthood. In 1974 three in four 30-year-olds had married, had a child, were […]
Since the Pew Research Center took over the extremely useful “State of the News Media” reports, the annual examination of industry trends has come to function like a doctor who reminds her patient that no matter how well he may feel, the cancer inside is spreading. The numbers this year, however, show a disease in […]
For too long, the focus has primarily been on the technology of cloud solutions rather than that of customer experience, customer needs and having an intuitive user interface. Because SMBs are often hesitant to adopt cloud services, it’s important to provide the simplest and most user-friendly solutions possible. Source: Is the cloud ready for small […]
What happened to the consumer hardware arm of Google? It’s complicated. Source: Why Nest didn’t build Google’s competitor to the Amazon Echo – Recode
With the new funding and hires, Mappedin positions itself to meet the growing demand from premium malls, REITs, and retailers to drive search and discoverability of the indoors through digital wayfinding. In 2015, Mappedin grew revenue more than 500 percent and is currently forecasted to triple revenue by the end of 2016. Source: Mappedin Raises […]
The Future of Retail 2016 study, comprising a survey of 1,433 U.S. adults, found that 40% of consumers expect that they will receive their first package delivered by drone within the next two years. And like many other aspects of the Internet of Things, service seems to be a driving factorIf it means receiving a […]
Used together, these features will enable developers to provide more customized user experiences. Snapshot API lets the app request context-based information about users, such as their current location and weather conditions in their area. Fence API allows the app to react to changes in users’ context. For example, it can tell the developer when the […]
There’s some closure (literally and figuratively) for Move Loot, the furniture resale marketplace that we wrote earlier this month was up for sale. The startup — backed by nearly $22 million in funding from a list of top investors that included Y Combinator, GV, Index, Metamorphic and Sherpa — has shut down its business and […]