Mobile games under pressure
Since July 2018, the markets have not been kind for most videogame companies. Both Chinese firms extending their sucessful business model across Asia and Western competitors have their work cut out
Pininvest Analysis
Streaming games
Investors' first take on the current fall-back of the major game publishers is dire : the good times are over and winter is coming, but the industry might prepare in stealth mode to adjust to technological revolutions in the offing
After a century, insulin is still expensive – could DIYers change that?
When we heard that a group of do-it-yourself biologists was working to solve the insulin affordability problem by figuring out how to manufacture insulin patent-free, we got to know them
Diabetes: new test could detect the disease much earlier
Diabetes is detected when the body can no longer regulate its own blood sugar levels. Blood sugar is controlled by insulin, a hormone made in the pancreas
Uncomfortable truths
Confronted with unsatiable demand for milk, New Zealand's fragile ecosystem is front-running environmental risks exposing much larger economies worldwide, glad to supply in the short term, but at what cost ?
Land of milk and honey
Ratcheting up milk supply, New Zealand is now coping with the environmental fallout. Too much of a good thing or, more probably, a warning shot the major global agriculture exporters would discount at their peril
Dr. Moll's challenge
The achievements of Fred Moll in medical robotics are close to legendary but the collaboration of Dr. Moll with Johnson & Johnson, may raise the bar, with real-time management of the data feeds informing the robotics applications - the next frontier...
Radical start-ups for radical research
Challenging dominant Intuitive Surgical, many robotics systems are coming to market but the vast ambitions of Auris Health stand out and Verb Surgical, a Google / Johnson & Johnson partnership, is waiting in the wings
Tackling the Chinese offensive
The semi-conductor industry is at the nexus of the most critical issues overshadowing US-China relations, from the protection of intellectual property to fair competition to national security
China's Silicon Hearts
Whoever controls the production of advanced Integrated Circuits commands the terms of trade between nations...With US and Asian semi-conductor majors protective of their Chinese market shares, it is for the US government to confront new reality
Battery illusions
The strategies of Western car manufacturers for electric mobility prioritize growth markets and partnerships with Asian battery providers, none of which bodes well for a balanced and mutually beneficial EU-China relationship
Shock and Awe... and Conquer ?
Asian battery providers have achieved global dominance and western car industries have little choice but to tie their technological ambitions to the master player and largest market, China - in the short and medium term
The conceptual framework of Newell
A dropping share price and the departure of the CEO calls for a rethink of the conceptual framework of Newell. Could a flexible and loosely knit structure succeed where a centralized organization has failed ?
Newell - Once bitten, twice shy ?
Restructuring at Newell – a transformation or more of the same ?
Is the ‘schwarze Null’ a black hole ?
Black zero has been the cornerstone of responsible German budgets but, with looming economic uncertainty, there are many reasons to reconsider
The future of energy storage
Associate Professors J. Johnson and J. DeCarolis, North Carolina State University, envision the advent of grid-scale batteries, providing the utilities with flexible energy delivery, if the price per KwH of lithium batteries continues to plummet
Improved lithium-ion battery technology
To charge the battery, the anode loads up lithium ions. Ions travel through the electrolyte to the cathode to generate power With a higher ‘upload’, replacing the graphite anode by a silicon – graphite mix anode, the battery will generate more power
Education and the local community
Innovations in the public school system might contribute to an inclusive ‘public-private’ model - Reviewing Sam Meyers' recent book "Education and the Commercial Mindset"