Even though we just came out of a global recession, there is no telling when another one might be looming. According to a recent study, one in two people have cut back on their spending and one in five fear for their jobs, while 65 percent said that they were pessimistic about the future. Perhaps the most apprehensive group of […]
4 Recession Proof Business Ideas for 2017
4 Ways to Improve Your Business Security
Most small businesses consider security to be an expensive, yet crucial, investment. Any brick-and-mortar business establishment, whether a small corner store or a multinational corporation, can become a potential target for theft or fraud. As a business owner, you are responsible for the livelihood and safety of your employees. Therefore, taking preventative steps will help guarantee the security of your […]
How to Turn Sci-Fi Technologies Into Real Business Ideas
Science fiction is a popular genre, which means most people grew up watching or reading about fantastic technological developments of the far-off future. In “The Jetsons,” viewers saw personal aircraft and watches with amazing capabilities; in “Star Trek” characters enjoyed natural-sounding conversations with their computers and could create anything using their replicators. When they first appeared on screen, these gadgets […]
What If There Was A Way To Change How You Looked On Google?
Negative perception from consumers often results in poorer sales and margins just because of negative search results. The role of online reputation management in today’s business and media landscape is of paramount importance in today’s digital age. Finally there is a cool business that has solved the issue of unfair and biased search results from “Fake News” and the media. […]
How To Promote Innovative Thinking
Sometimes, it can seem like your brain is teeming with thousands of ‘useless’ ideas that you do not actually need at the time. But, when you are asked to come up with an innovative business idea – whether as part of a marketing campaign for your current business or because you want to create a new, niche business from scratch […]
Rewritable Paper
Developing efficient photoreversible color switching systems for constructing rewritable paper is of significant practical interest owing to the potential environmental benefits including forest conservation, pollution reduction, and resource sustainability. Here we report that the color change associated with the redox chemistry of nanoparticles of Prussian blue and its analogues could be integrated with the photocatalytic activity of TiO2 nanoparticles to […]
Facial Recognition for Boarding
Dutch airline KLM has started a pilot project to see if facial recognition software would make boarding any easier and quicker for passengers. The “biometric boarding” technology has been designed so that passengers do not have to show their passport or boarding pass at the gate. The system has been installed at a single gate at the airline’s home airport of Schiphol […]
Fueled by Food Waste
A British supermarket chain has been combatting food waste in more ways than one. Waitrose, the sixth largest grocery retailer in the United Kingdom with 350 stores, began selling “ugly” produce—often discarded for their imperfectness—at a discounted price last year. Before that, five years ago, the company also halted the practice of sending food waste to landfills. Waitrose also aims […]
The Basic Things You Need To Know About Setting Up An Online Commerce Website
If you are a budding entrepreneur, it is pretty normal to want to start somewhere where the playing field is evened out: the Internet. Now, you could go old school and set up a physical store, go through the usual stuff like doing a titles search to sift through properties, get the permits for construction, and so on. But if […]
How Video Streaming Services Like Netflix and VIDGO are Changing TV Forever
We all remembered when MTV famously played the music video “Video Killed the Radio Star” over and over when the service first aired. On air radio remains a mainstay because it is one of the few information and entertainment services one can access and enjoy while working, driving or working. However, video streaming does have the potential to kill TV […]