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Forget vacuum cleaners, Dyson prototyped a Google Glass-like AR headset

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by on June 1, 2014 at 10:59 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Shareables

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21 years ago and 5,127 prototypes later, James Dyson launched one of the world’s first mass-produced cyclonic vacuum cleaners. And within 18 months, it became Britain’s biggest-seller. The road to launch for the bagless miracle had been fraught with obstacles. Having failed to convince major manufacturers to take on his invention, with some concerns around its impact on the lucrative replacement dust bag market, Dyson ended up establishing his own company in Wiltshire, England, in 1993. Since then, the Dyson brand has become synonymous with innovation. The company has produced the Airblade hand-dryer, and the so-called bladeless fan. Today, Dyson…

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Windows 8.1 finally passes Windows 8 in market share, Windows 7 climbs back over 50%

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by on June 1, 2014 at 5:17 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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May was the seventh full month of availability for Microsoft’s latest operating system version: Windows 8.1 continues to grow slowly while Windows 8 remains largely flat, allowing the former to finally pass the latter in market share. At the same time, Windows 7 has managed to climb back over the 50 percent mark, while Windows XP still has more than 25 percent of the pie, despite support for the ancient OS finally ending in April. The latest market share data from Net Applications shows that Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 have gained a combined 0.40 percentage points (from 12.24 percent…

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How a mobile app for honesty can make you a better marketer

Jun01
by on June 1, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Chris Bolman is the Director of Growth at Percolate. This post originally appeared on the Percolate blog. Over the summer of 2013, David Byttow, a former Google software developer, started building a mobile app to solve a problem he had. Byttow noticed he and the engineers he worked with were bad at giving each other feedback, and he wanted a way they could comment honestly on each other’s work without professional or personal backlash for saying something negative. Byttow wanted a way to tell the truth, without revealing who said it. Eight months later, the most talked about content at…

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Is your brand ready to enter China? Three key questions to consider

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by on June 1, 2014 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Asia, Entrepreneur

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Eric Lin is the Executive Director, Pacific Rim at Siegel+Gale. Despite the recent slowdown, China still presents significant growth opportunities for global brands. With an expanding middle class, continued urbanization and rising consumption, China gives global brands access to a vast audience with an insatiable desire for new products, services and experiences. Yet while China’s growth opportunities abound, so do its challenges. The nascent days of its economic growth where the mere availability of a foreign brand in the market was enough to generate excitement and sales are over. A more sophisticated audience and intense competition have raised the bar for success, in what is…

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