and will likely soon surpass physical formats in the money it generates, a global industry body has said.
even though overall revenue still slipped in 2014. For the first time, digital and physical music sales were roughly even with each representing 46%of revenue for the industry, with rights for performances,
films and advertisements making up the rest. think we will be looking in the next couple of years at digital surpassing physical,
but revenue shot up 39%last year to $1. 57bn, according to the IFPI. The group estimated that 41 million people worldwide pay for music subscription services such as Sweden-based industry leader Spotify and France-based Deezer.
The drops contributed to the overall picture for the global music industry revenue of $14. 97bn in 2014, down a modest 0. 4%from a year earlier.
saw an increase in digital revenue for the first time in five years as streaming services took hold.
which nonetheless saw revenue decline by 5. 5%in 2014, although it was an improvement from a 16.7%tumble the year before.
where overall revenue still grew 1. 9%in contrast to declines in Britain and France.
where revenues grew by 19.2%.%South korea along with Nordic nations have been especially enthusiastic about embracing streaming.
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#Can the internet of things save us from traffic jams? Traffic is getting worse. It doesn just feel that way,
Musk said, to applause from investors and journalists at the much-anticipated event. The batteries will initially be manufactured at the electric car company factory in California,
but the Powerwall boasts a relatively high storage capacity, a competitive price, and the heft of investment and excitement generated by Musk vision.
The entrepreneur, who helped to invent the online payment system Paypal, has founded also a private space company, Space X,
and is experimenting with a high-speed public transport system called Hyperloop. Musk also unveiled a larger owerpack a 100kwh battery block to help utilities smooth out their supply of wind and solar energy
and businesses could yield as much as $4. 5bn in revenue for Tesla. The energy storage industry is expected to grow to $19bn by 2017, according to research firm IHS CERA.
in order to reduce labor costs and prices. In Japan, the Nanna-na hotel, which opened in July,
when more and more families are struggling to survive in the city. like the food and love the price,
That way we can get the price down. t
#The innovators: burglar alarms upgraded for the smartphone age As history has it, the young Isaac newton found inspiration for the theory of gravity by watching apples fall to the ground.
China will also limit public money going to high-carbon projectsthe announcement is expected to be the first step in a program that aims to halve China's emissions by 2030.
To further push the issue, The New york times says President Xi Jinping is planning to set up a"green dispatch"scheme that will offer a price incentive to low-carbon power sources.
China will also"strictly limit"the amount of public money that will be given to projects that will result in harmful emissions,
and will offer money to less-developed countries who want to invest in low-carbon infrastructure.
In addition, efforts to stop officials using public money to build high-carbon projects may prove difficult,
All Google shares will now be traded as shares of the larger Alphabet holding company, news that drove the company's share price up more than four percentage points in the wake of the announcement."
with Brin and Page increasingly interested in ambitious projects launched through Google X or outside funding.
The president also thanked nearly four dozen venture capital firms for pledging to increase diversity in their own ranks and in their portfolio companies.
Currently, only about 3%of venture capital-backed start-ups are led by women, and only 1%are led by African americans,
while positively impacting their economy, "she said. Among several entrepreneurs and start-ups who met with administration officials were based New york Thinkup cofounders Anil Dash and Gina Trapani,
but for the app economy. Innovators can add themselves to Makerbase or others can add them to the current database of projects.
Google shares jump off Alphabet announcement Here's a surprise that shareholders seemed to like: Google shocked Wall street Monday afternoon after suddenly announcing the creation of Alphabet, its new publicly traded parent company.
The company also pleased investors after announcing an expanded deal with the NFL, which will streamline more of the leagues content on the platform.
an analyst with Creative Strategies says VR will be acquired an taste for retailers until the price comes down. lot of major brands will look into it,
an analyst with Creative Strategies, says VR will be acquired an taste for retailers until the price comes down. lot of major brands will look into it,
It could also force U s.-based businesses to make expensive infrastructure investments and build European data centers to process data previously transferred to the U s.,
and the $77 billion in gross profit it made in 2014 will also be a thing of the past.
and Paypal, which increasingly have a physical presence. Stratos enables you to compile all your credit cards on a single Bluetooth connected credit card that links up to a mobile app.
#EU annual scorecard paints bleak picture of innovation efforts across Europe Whatever Europe plans to do to reboot its innovation economy,
The problem runs across the board as Europe is suffering a drop in atent applications, exports of high-tech products, venture capital investments and sales of innovative products, according to the report.
The EU uses 25 different indicators such as patents, venture capital, and exports to measure and rank countries along an innovation index.
and concede less to the financial markets if it is succeed to. I, for one, hope it does.
as will its investment arms, Ventures and Capital. The move comes as Google struggles to maintain focus as its portfolio grows
That sprawl has attracted recently criticism from investors, who wondered whether the company could remain innovative with so many distractions.
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, Chief Financial officer Ruth Porat and chief legal officer David Drummond will take up corresponding positions within Alphabet.
Investors and analysts have criticized Google in recent years for spending so much on these"side projects
Because the expense of Gan manufacturing when compared to silicon has always been its Achilles heel.
#Stash App Brings $5 Investments, and Advice, to Newcomers to Trading The ebb and flow of the public markets gets a lot of attention these days,
because investing historically has been one of the best ways to make money over the long-term.
Ronick says traditional investing services can seem opaque to the general public, leaving them confused about
With Stash, people can make investments based on their personal beliefs, wants, and likes, he says,
The app lets users choose from some 30 types of investments a move Ronick says offers them choice without becoming overwhelming.
The app also explains some of the concepts of the financial markets in layperson terms to help educate them about making investments.
and then with clearing partner on the backend, allocates fractional shares to usersaccounts. y owning fractional shares you still get dividends,
Stashinvest is not alone though in trying to be a stepping stone for neophytes in investing.
The idea is to help investors take small steps, reach milestones, and develop solid investment habits.
As people sign up for Stash, they are scored on their financial risk, which screens potential investments so they only see things they can reasonably take on. he user can override their risk profile,
Krieg says. Stash will also show users how others with similar risk profiles are investing through the app
he says. e want them to invest in ways they should be investing. Prior to Stashinvest, Ronick co-founded Creatorbox, an alum of the Kaplan Techstars Edtech Accelerator.
Stashinvest has raised $1. 5 million so far from angel investors; its app is available on ios with Android to follow in a couple of months.
Ronick says the team interviewed more than 100 other people who largely believed investing was confusing
and economy of the US.""I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with this threat,
"Most common companies we see are based internet ones that do need not to much initial funding to thrive.
Seed money is almost nonexistent: it's possible to get some early funding only through competitions,
but there are no structured seed money programs,"Viveka accelerator's cofounder Ece? dil Re? a Kasap told ZDNET.
Things change when it comes to angel funding, with sums ranging around $100, 000. Endeavor estimates that there are an estimated total of 450 active business angels in Turkey nowadays;
the most renowned angel investor networks include Arya Women's Investor Platform, BIC Angels, Etohum, Galata Business Angels, Keiretsu Forum, Metutech-ban and Sirket Ortagim.
A little off-scale is'super angel'and former entrepreneur Hasan Aslanoba, who invested a total of $46m in 53 companies over the last two years,
single-handedly doubling the total value of angel funding during the period. The Turkish government has done also its part to help the ecosystem grow with the launch in 2013 of an incentive program that allows qualified angel investors to access significant tax deductions on their angel investments (up to 75 percent or 1 million Turkish lira.
In addition, there's a small group of local venture capital funds-Ilab Ventures, Mediterra Capital, Pera Capital, Revo Capital,
and 212 Ltd-that can help startups access larger funding rounds. Not that you always have to rely on VCS to make it big,
as the story of Pozitron, a mobile money company founded in 2006 by Fatih and Firat Isbecer, shows.
Starting from scratch and growing the business with zero venture funding, the two brothers were able to scale from 13 engineers in 2007 to more than 250 engineers across five countries
when they were acquired fully by UK-based Monitise in 2014. As the two Isbecers could confirm
I think we can survive better during times of economic crisis,"Re? a Kasap says.""What's more,
In October last year, the European Bank for reconstruction and development, together with six Turkish banks, launched the Finance and Advice for Women in Business programme,
designed to strengthen the role of female entrepreneurs in the economy. While not tech-related, the success of B-Fit, a franchise of women-only gyms across Turkey launched in 2006 by Bedriye Halya,
Even before the tech onslaught, many large banks have rented out their services (such as check processing) to other institutions as additional sources of revenues.
"These enterprises seek"further return--and possibly new sources of revenues--from their large investments in IT,
or approximately 10 percent of its global revenues last year. On Wednesday the European commission commissioner Margrethe Vestager said the EC had sent formally a statement of objections to Google.
since Android had lowered prices and increased choice for consumers and pointed out that Samsung's new Galaxy S6 included pre-installed apps from rivals."
#Samsung to launch fingerprint mobile payment service Samsung SDS, the IT service affiliate of Samsung Group, has announced that it is launching a new fingerprint mobile payment service with local payment gateway firms KG
including Samsung, Google, Microsoft, Visa, and Paypal.""We expected previous authentication technology such as passwords, certificates,
with the aim of boosting revenue to 20 trillion won by 2020. Source: ZDNET Kore e
This eliminates unnecessary trips to the physician, saving time and money. This strengthened patient-doctor relationship facilitates a supportive
Now, the price is $1 000. And, by 2020, with the power of cloud and advanced computing, it may be a matter of pennies.
meaning more money can be directed to lifesaving initiatives s
#'Largest'denial-of-service attack hit Asian datacenter this year The largest ever distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack happened earlier this year, according to a threat intelligence and monitoring service.
accounting for tens of thousands of connections, targeting one Asian network operator. DDOS attacks are commonplace nowadays:
and great price-performance, meaning the amount of data it can ingest, store and then write per dollar per month is extremely high,
the same price as Google Cloud platform object storage.""That's amazing because what you have is a very hot high-performance database running on a storage tier that's the same price as slower, colder, blob-based storage,
"O'connor said. Data can be imported into the new service through an offline disk-based service or via an online transfer,
'The strategy includes#6bn of investment to modernize the country's network infrastructure, increase fibre broadband coverage,
with South korea planning to secure 2 percent share by 2017 and 3 percent by 2020 with the new investments.
Fresh investments will be placed annually, with the amount of funding and the projects chosen each year depending on promising areas,
though it will increase overall. Single projects will be able to get up to $16 million this year,
with startups working on the area accounting for 13.7 percent of listed companies on the KOSDAW based on market value.
considering making a minority investment in Cyanogen, but supposedly the Redmondians have decided against that, at least for now
It announced about $11 million in funding in November 2013 and reported more than $20 million in revenue in 2014."
The Catalan government believes the region's food sector is a prime candidate for boosting the the area's economy,
"We also like that it means alphabet (Alpha is investment return above benchmark), which we strive for!
However, both classes of shares will continue to trade on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbols GOOGL and GOOG.
that Linuxone comes with a new financing model. With this you can have a Linuxone Emperor or Rockhopper on site but,
The elastic pricing is meant mostly for emergencing markets and service providers. IBM will work with existing customers who want to move to the new elastic pricing model."
"With a Rockhopper and elastic pricing, this is the least expensive entry option ever for a mainframe. m
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Jing Li's research team set out to solve the issues of material sources and pricing.
Research for this project was conducted at ORNL's National Transportation Research center and Manufacturing Demonstration Facility DOE user facilities with funding from DOE's Office of Energy efficiency and Renewable energy.
The annual survey by Michigan State university economist Phil Gardner is the nation's largest with nearly 5700 companies responding.
Most industries report a rapid increase in anticipated hiring led by information services (up 51 percent over last year) and finance and insurance (up 31 percent.
Wågberg and his fellow researchers have received recently funding from the Kempe Foundation to buy a more advanced microwave oven
This research was supported by the North carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute under grant number 1ul1tr001111 and with funding from NC State and UNC Chapel hill.
The authors are also able to optimise the energy mix according to three selected criteria namely economy environment and supply security.
It also multiplies the price of the imprints. Colorful decor without pollutantsa new development by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC in Würzburg and the Forschungsgemeinschaft Technik und Glas e. V. FTG can change that.
which is now dominated by small companies such as Cubist Pharmaceuticals formed in 1992 specifically to focus on drugs for resistant bacterial infections that could have higher price points.
If you've got this vancomycin-like situation where the drug is sitting on a shelf--quite literally sitting on a shelf--how is a company going to make its money back?
and financing models to deal with antibiotic resistance. One popular idea is de-linkage or finding a way to disconnect the costs of development from the sale of pills.
which would then be sold for modest prices by other companies. The Infectious diseases Society of America (ISDA) has launched a 10 x 20 initiative
but at a price that can knock you right out of the market says Beacon Institute President
Population aging dependency and consumption with Andrew Mason an economist and senior fellow at the East-West Center.
and private spending among all age groups using the National Transfer Accounts project which studies how population changes impact economies across generations and which they co-direct.
A more complete accounting of the costs of children shows only a few countries in East asia
and Europe where the governments should encourage people to have said more children Mason an economics professor at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.
"Investors seem to agree. A presentation given by Das about the science behind the diagnostic caught the attention of two Texas-based entrepreneurs.
and are actively seeking funding to help push the screening tool closer to market. Bacteria behaving badly Das first became interested in diagnostics as an otolaryngology resident during research to find potential biomarkers of sinusitis in the blood.
and Ecology of Infectious disease program provided funding for the study y
#Colorectal cancer: New clues for early detection Researchers at the University of Luxembourg have identified potential new ways to test for the first signs of one of the most deadly types of cancer:
U of U and Navigen are now seeking additional funding to optimize these inhibitors and advance them into clinical trials in humans s
and colleagues have shown that a lentivirus encoding let-7 injected into mouse neurons promotes the autophagic turnover of toxic misfolded proteins associated with neurodegenerative disease. e also demonstrate that treatment with anti-let-7 can block autophagy
and testing a new microfluidics system can take a lot of time and money. Building a single device can often require multiple iterations each
and money Bhargava set out simplify the construction process. First he identified the primitive elements commonly used in microfluidic systems much like how circuitry is broken down in electrical engineering.
and money said Malmstadt. I think of it as a technological approach to the STEM shortage--make each researcher more powerful by enabling them to do their own automation without having to be an expert in mircrofabrication
Instead of sink or swim funding they want every team to succeed. In some ways we are like a small startup company
the money goes to programs to fight exotic pests. Measures like this can be successful Kerfoot notes.
When benefits and costs accrue at different points in time calculating profit --or indeed comparing them in any way--requires putting benefits and costs on a common time footing.
The most convenient method (of calculating profitability) is converting all revenues and costs to constant periodic payments;
We began by discounting all revenues and costs to convert them to their present values.
We then calculated the present value of profit which we converted to a constant annual payment (or loss).
Finally we calculated profit (or loss) per unit area to permit scaling up or down.
The scientists found that controlling irrigation using data from moisture sensors led to substantial reductions in both production time and crop losses.
Calculations showed that annualized profit under the wireless sensor system was over 1. 5 times more than under the nursery's standard practice
and that most of the increase in profit was attributed to a reduction in production time.
#Half Price Lithium-ion Batteries With Improved Performance and Recyclability MIT spinoff company 24m has reinvented the manufacturing process for lithium-ion batteries to reduce cost,
24m has raised $50 million in financing from venture capital firms and a U s. Department of energy grant. The company is initially focusing on grid-scale installations,
so they require much larger initial capital expenditures. By 2020, Chiang estimates that 24m will be able to produce batteries for less than $100 per kilowatt-hour of capacity.
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As a result, eliminating periodic electronic regeneration will drastically change the economy of the network infrastructure
While the travel article points out a number of challenges, the issue of payment is one of the biggest.
Credit card and other payment information can be stored in the digital wallet allowing people to pay without needing to swipe
Travelers who use the new Athens payment system can skip the latter; their smartphone is the kiosk.
and not-for-profit communities. In doing so, they gather diverse perspectives about the causes and potential solutions to the challenge at hand.
Doesn break the budget Microsoft is quick to point out that these benefits are available to cities of any size at a very modest investment.
and that an incremental investment. Adding more police officers is expensive and can be given almost impossible the budget struggles most cities face today.
a relatively small investment can make an existing police force more effective, making communities safer s
It plans to use money from its successful crowdfunding to take the version of the panels it used for that project into production i
sound economies and enough services to accommodate the growth. Also, as the Eco-Business article notes, cities in Asia and Africa will be responsible for 90%of the world's population growth until 2050.
Navigant Research expects investments in smart city information and communications technology (ICT) will reach $63. 4 billion in the Asia Pacific region between 2014 and 2023.
In an economy as heavily dependent on agriculture as Argentina's, boosting production and protecting workers are vitally important.
because of Argentina's regular economic collapses, are not eager or able to make large investments, the robot will have a price tag of about a third of comparable commercial models.
Thus, the Trakür could make farm automation possible not only for small farmers in Argentina but also for those in developing countries around the globe.
If we were to develop something great at a very elevated price, they never adopt it
The country's history of economic collapses, high import taxes and import restrictions has forced Argentines to become skillful at low cost design
In a vein similar to the Trakür, a group at an Argentine university lab has designed a low-cost prosthetic hand called Electromioprótesis (at a price of $2, 500 versus a usual $8, 000),
While O'Keeffe is in search of sponsorship and government funding, the maintenance of the guide is covered by publicly raised funds.
and the Pandemic and All-Hazard Preparedness Act (signed into law 2 years later) allotted billions of dollars in funding for research into medical countermeasures to be used in the case of nuclear, chemical,
#Where GE is putting its latest $10b investment GE announced it will invest another $10 billion into its green energy R&d program with an aim of boosting the output of its wind turbines (while cutting costs), increasing power plant efficiency and perhaps,
#The investment falls under GE's Ecoimagination program, a cross-company business initiative that has used already $12 billion
since 2005 to develop technology that saves money and reduces the environmental impact of its own operations as well as its customers.
That investment has paid off. A whole line of Ecoimagination products which have generated $160 billion in revenue
since the program began has emerged from the R&d program. This additional $10 billion will push the Ecoimagination investment total to $25 billion by 2020, according to#GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt.#
#This latest $10 billion investment will be used to advance research in three areas: natural, renewable energy and power plants.
On the natural gas front an area that many environmentalists would argue is not a green energy source GE will work on developing alternative technologies to replace water in the hydraulic fracturing process.#
which can be volatile in price and availability, according to Laduca. What we're trying to do is just make it commercially feasible to produce isoprene through fermentation,
The price: 50 cents per cubic centimeter. If this worked for my design, I would upload the design to the website where it gives me a price that
I pay right there (no money is exchanged between printer owner and designer). Then, once the printing is complete
I can pick it up or have shipped it to me. Zak Stone reports for Fast Company that people with 3d printers have been eager to sign up:
Not long after the Google announcement, AT&T also announced an investment in a gigabit network in Austin.
and is using the money in part to fund grants, and to encourage proposals for demonstrations of advanced, high-bandwidth applications.
in order to save money and energy. Smart meters are key. New energy: Prepare the'smart grid'to better handle new forms of power--wind, solar, geothermal, etc.
and so there are a lot of different stakeholders who have a say in how things are done. As a result, any sweeping national changes are almost impossible to push.
This doesn't take government money, he said. If we have the clarity, the utilities can raise all the capital.
America cannot build a 21st century economy with a 20th century electricity system. By working with states, industry leaders,
Administration Announces Grid Modernization Initiatives to Foster a Clean energy Economy and Spur Innovation Fact sheet:
A tax will be added to the price tags of electronic products to help pay for e waste disposal. Based on a similar tax in other cities, the cost of home appliances is expected to go up by $12 to $30.
The question now is whether consumers should pay for all of the recycling costs. Some argue that retailers
In California, there is a $10 fee added to the price of electronic products with viewable screens,
but retailers may choose to pay the fee on behalf of the consumer to make its prices more competitive.
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