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  The shifts towards collecting as a form of investing and purchasing collectibles through digital channels are two trends that are currently reshaping how and why consumers engage with the global c o l l e c t i b l e s industry. Collecting as Investing Collecting as a form of investing was identified as a resurgent trend within the global c o l l e c t i b l e s industry based on the fact that a preponderance of top-tier media (e.g., CNBC ), leading market researchers (e.g., Deloitte ) and industry experts (e.g., Antique Sage ) are highlighting new, worldwide momentum around purchasing collectibles to diversify investment portfolios and increase overall financial returns.

Drama with a Pan-Arabic Appeal The United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, which were the main consumers of Turkish drama, banned Turkish drama from broadcasting in their stations. The ban has left a gap in the drama segment since Turkey was the major producer of this type of content. Saudi Arabia has lacked good writers who can create content that has a pan-Arabic appeal, which explains why Turkish series became popular in the region. The audience could easily relate to the Turkish culture and there was no competition from the Middle East because a majority of the productions are too local. According to Gianluca C h a k r a , Managing Partner at Front Row Filmed Entertainment, the productions “ were far too local …either it was to Lebanese or too Egyptian. By comparison, Turkish series had a pan-Arab appeal.”

The majority of the awards feature multiple categories that might interest startups. Of the ten awards listed, 6 features a "best" or "top" startup of the year award. We were able to identify the application dates for all the awards, except for the Fortress Cyber Security Awards . Most of the awards incorporate categories for specific cybersecurity products or applications in such diverse fields as malware, fraud prevention, forensics, identity management, mobile security and more.

  Adoption of renewable energy and digitization are some trends impacting the global energy sector. There is limited available information in the public domain regarding how key players are facing these challenges, although some insights can be extracted from their marketing efforts and investor relations. Details about the current state of the global energy industry can be found in the attached slide presentation . Trends and Challenges The global energy industry is moving towards renewable sources of energy, particularly wind and solar. Over 75% of all new investments in new capacity were devoted to renewable energies in 2019, with China and the United States leading the pack. Digitization is another trend. Despite being commonplace in other industries, the energy sector tends to be a slower adopter of new technologies. Cloud computing, robotics, IoT, and big data are emerging trends that are likely to change in the next few years.   COVID-19 is one of the challenges the ...

Unpopular Industry Recruitment - Challenges Several industries that are considered to be "unpopular," and which struggle to attract top talent are insurance, the federal government, and pharmaceuticals. INSURANCE According to the Hartford's 2015 Millennial Leadership Survey , in the US, just 4% of millennials are " interested " in an insurance industry career. One reason for the unpopularity of the insurance industry as an employer is how " work goal s" are shifting, particularly for millennials , who want " personal fulfillment " and " purpose of work " over the " job for life " that the insurance industry has historically offered. Additionally, insurance has historically employed a largely " white, privilege and mostly male " workforce, and therefore is challenged in attracting and retaining a broader range of individuals as it " struggles to assimilate greater diversity ." Moreover, accordin...

Information on how European entrepreneurs shop for mobile or telecommunication devices is not readily available in the public domain, but there are a few surveys of small and medium-sized enterprises in the United Kingdom and Western Europe that offer some helpful insights. The results of these surveys suggest that entrepreneurs in the region place a premium on security updates, phone selection, operating system upgrades, and affordability when purchasing mobile devices. They also suggest that most entrepreneurs, particularly those outside the technology sector, have limited understanding of telecommunication products and services and are familiar with consumer or residential telecommunication service providers only. RESEARCH PROCESS AND PURCHASE CRITERIA Most small and medium-sized enterprises in the United Kingdom research telecommunication products and services by scouring the Internet and consulting similar businesses, peers, and providers. Some enterprises , particularly the b...

Composites made from self-assembling inorganic materials are valued for their unique strength and thermal, optical and magnetic properties. However, because self-assembly can be difficult to control, the structures formed can be highly disordered, leading to defects during large-scale production. Researchers at the University of Illinois and the University of Michigan have developed a templating technique that instills greater order and gives rise to new 3D structures in a special class of materials, called eutectics , to form new, high-performance materials. The findings of the collaborative study are published in the journal Nature. Eutectic materials contain elements and compounds that have different melting and solidification temperatures. When combined, however, the composite formed has single melting and freezing temperatures -- like when salt and water combined to form brine, which freezes at a lower temperature than water or salt alone, the researchers said. When a e...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have created a building material that utilizes live microbes. The material can regenerate to form three generations of offspring.  This could make the bricks an ideal building material for a settlement on Mars. Visit BusinessInsider . Com for more stories. Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder recently conducted an experiment that sounds almost like a kids' science project: They added colonies of green bacteria to a mix of sand and grocery-store gelatin. The result, it turns out, is a novel building material that's a living, breathing organism. It can spawn its own babies. The microbes in the brick are cyanobacteria , which perform photosynthesis to grow, taking in carbon dioxide. They produce a powdery substance called calcium carbonate — the main ingredient in cement — which toughens the material.  "It's a lot like making rice crispy treats, where you toughen the marshmallow by adding little ...

Life is at the heart of much of our material world. We make two-by-four beams from wood, ethanol from corn, and textiles from cotton. But bricks? Researchers have now created a form of concrete that not only comes from living creatures but —given the right inputs—can turn one brick into two, two into four, and four into eight. Although the new material won’t build self-assembling houses anytime soon, it could soon lead to building components that can heal themselves when damaged. The living concrete could even offer Mars-bound astronauts a way to build structures from local materials plus a few adventurous microbes. The new concrete is the latest addition to the burgeoning field of engineered living materials (ELMs), in which organisms—typically bacteria— are added to inanimate materials to enable them to sense, communicate, and even respond to their environments. In recent years, researchers have created ELMs that sense pressure, kill dangerous bacteria, and sense light. But tho...

Artificial Intelligence in Automotive Lending: Case Study Part I Aclaró, ZestFinance, and Upstart are companies developing artificial intelligences that oversee and advance lending systems. All three companies strive to expand reach to more borrowers, particularly those typically overlooked by traditional credit systems, and have seen significant success in this regard. Unlike Aclaró and ZestFinance, which are specific to automotive lending, Upstart has only begun to consider developing a system for auto loans after seeing success in other lending areas. ACLARÓ Aclaró's artificial intelligence system, TrueView , evaluates a lender's loan portfolio and risk. So far the system has shown strong success: "the average risk evaluation analysis of a portfolio which contains 10,000 loans is completed in under 30 seconds " and "in blind tests, Aclaró TrueView averaged a 97 percent success rate in identifying whether a loan would be paid off or written off." Sinc...