#Mobile Sports and Fitness Ecosystems Market Growth

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Mobile Sports and Fitness Ecosystems Market: Forthcoming Trends and Share Analysis by 2032

Mobile Sports and Fitness Ecosystems Market Size Was Valued at USD 27.3Billion in 2023 and is Projected to Reach USD 82.67 Billion by 2032, Growing at a CAGR of 13.1 % From 2024-2032.

Mobile sports and fitness ecosystems are networks of devices, apps, and digital platforms that work together to improve athletic performance, encourage physical exercise, and make wellness management easier. Features like exercise tracking, individualized training programs, dietary advice, social networking, and gamification components are all included into these ecosystems. These tools, which users can access on their mobile devices, promote motivation, community contact, and engagement—all of which lead to better health and fitness outcomes.

The network of mobile apps, gadgets, and services that work together to improve sports and fitness activities is referred to as the mobile sports and fitness ecosystems market. This ecosystem includes a broad range of goods and services, including as wearable technology, online communities, virtual coaching platforms, and fitness tracking apps.

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Leading players involved in the Mobile Sports and Fitness Ecosystems Market include:

Apple (U.S.)

Samsung Electronics (South Korea)

Fitbit (U.S.)

Motorola (U.S.)

Microsoft (U.S.)

Jawbone (U.S.)

Under Armour (U.S.)

Pebble (U.S.)

LG (South Korea)

Lenovo (China)

Withings (France)

Garmin (Switzerland), and other Major Players. 

Moreover, the report includes significant chapters such as Patent Analysis, Regulatory Framework, Technology Roadmap, BCG Matrix, Heat Map Analysis, Price Trend Analysis, and Investment Analysis which help to understand the market direction and movement in the current and upcoming years. 

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Segmentation of Mobile Sports and Fitness Ecosystems Market:

By Type

Hardware

Software

By Application

iOS

Android

By End- User

Athletes

Fitness Enthusiasts

An in-depth study of the Mobile Sports and Fitness Ecosystems industry for the years 2024–2032 is provided in the latest research. North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America, the Middle East, and Africa are only some of the regions included in the report's segmented and regional analyses. The research also includes key insights including market trends and potential opportunities based on these major insights. All these quantitative data, such as market size and revenue forecasts, and qualitative data, such as customers' values, needs, and buying inclinations, are integral parts of any thorough market analysis.

Market Segment by Regions: -

North America (US, Canada, Mexico)

Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Rest of Eastern Europe)

Western Europe (Germany, UK, France, Netherlands, Italy, Russia, Spain, Rest of Western Europe)

Asia Pacific (China, India, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, The Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Rest of APAC)

Middle East & Africa (Turkey, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Israel, South Africa)

South America (Brazil, Argentina, Rest of SA)

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Market intelligence to enable effective decision making

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Bicycle Market 2023-2032; Growth Forecast & Industry Share Report

Bicycle Market is projected to cross USD 102.8 Bn by 2032, cites the latest research analysis by Global Market Insights Inc. As per the report, the market experiences sustained growth due to a series of product launches and innovative developments by industry leaders. For instance, in November 2023, Honda introduced its inaugural electric bicycle concept, the e-MTB, during the Japan Mobility Show. Unlike many other concept designs, this electric bicycle appears to be nearly production-ready in terms of its design.

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Women segment will register a noteworthy CAGR from 2023 to 2032, as per the report. Women of all ages are increasingly embracing bicycles for various purposes. Bikes serve as eco-friendly transportation options, exercise equipment, and a means of recreation. The versatility, health benefits, and empowerment associated with cycling appeal to women, making them a significant segment of the market. Bicycle manufacturers continue to cater to their specific needs, further driving the bicycle market growth among female consumers.

Traditional bicycle industry could exhibit a decent growth rate over 2023-2032, claims the report. Loved for their simplicity, reliability, and eco-friendliness, traditional bikes are versatile and cost-effective. They serve various purposes, from commuting to leisure rides and exercise. In both urban and rural areas, people value the practicality and health benefits of traditional bicycles, ensuring their enduring contribution to the bicycle market demand.

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Europe bicycle industry will register a robust CAGR from 2023 to 2032, owing to Europe's strong focus on environmental sustainability and healthy living, encouraging bicycle use. Extensive cycling infrastructure in many European cities promotes commuting and leisure riding. Additionally, the growing preference for e-bikes, combined with government incentives, further fuels demand. Europe's enduring love for cycling as a practical and eco-friendly transportation mode sustains the vibrant bicycle market in the region.

Cannondale, MERIDA BIKES, Trek Bicycle Corporation, Cube Bikes Colnago, Tern Bicycles, Giant Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Scott Sports, Fuji Bikes, GT Bikes, Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc., among others. Company efforts to introduce innovative initiatives, such as refurbishment programs and old bike trade-ins, serve to stimulate consumer engagement and enhance their foothold in the market.

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Chapter 2   Executive Summary

2.1    Bicycle market 3600 synopsis, 2018 - 2032

2.2    Business trends

2.3    Regional trends

2.4    Type trends

2.5    Usage type trends

2.6    End-user trends

Chapter 3   Bicycle Industry Insights

3.1    Impact of COVID-19

3.2    Impact of the Russia-Ukraine war

3.3    Industry ecosystem analysis

3.4    Vendor matrix

3.5    Profit margin analysis

3.6    Technology & innovation landscape

3.7    Patent analysis

3.8    Key news and initiatives

3.8.1    Partnership/Collaboration

3.8.2    Merger/Acquisition

3.8.3    Investment

3.8.4    Level of autonomy launch & innovation

3.9    Regulatory landscape

3.10    Impact forces

3.10.1    Growth drivers

3.10.1.1    Increasing awareness of health and fitness

3.10.1.2    Growing environmental and sustainability awareness

3.10.1.3    Rising demand for cycling events and tourism

3.10.1.4    Increasing promotion of cycling as a sport

3.10.2    Industry pitfalls & challenges

3.10.2.1    Safety concerns

3.11    Growth potential analysis

3.12    Porter’s analysis

3.13    PESTEL analysis

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Smartwatch Market trends, opportunites, application and demand analysis 2032

Market Overview

Global Smartwatch Market valued at US USD 28,660 million in 2022, is anticipated to reach a value of US USD 136,130 million in 2033, growing at a CAGR of 21.5%.

A smartwatch is a wrist-worn digital device that provides atomic clock accuracy. It is linked to a smartphone and receives notifications for e-mails, texts, and incoming phone calls. It includes a number of apps that provide added features, like presenting weather updates, maps, and stock values. It is also capable of making phone calls and sending & receiving text messages. Its popularity is growing around the world because it includes fitness trackers and monitoring devices to help consumers track their health. Various features include notifications, alerts, apps, answer messages by voice, media management, fitness tracking, and a very good battery life. The market size revenue considered in the report is revenue earned by companies by selling smartwatch. From application perspective, the report analyses the market according to personal assistance, wellness, healthcare, sports, and others. Smartwatches are designed to, either on their own or when paired with a smart phone, provide features like connecting to the internet, running mobile apps, making calls, messaging via text or video, checking caller ID, accessing stock & weather updates, providing fitness monitoring capabilities, offering GPS coordinates & location directions, and more.

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Rise in demand for wireless sports and fitness devices, increase in health awareness among end users, and surge in technological advancements by market players are anticipated to boost the growth of smart watch market. Additionally, rising emphasis on connected devices and smart systems among several industries, and growing demand for connected ecosystem are projected to offer significant opportunities for smart watch market globally. The increase in data dependency among end users and huge investments in building smart cities by the government of various countries are the key success areas that bolster the demand for smart wearable devices.

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Smartwatch Market Size, Share, Global Analysis, Growth by Forecast 2030

Smartwatch market is valued at USD 29.52 billion in 2022 and is projected to reach a value of USD 123.60 billion in 2030 expanding at a CAGR of 19.6% over the forecast period of 2022-2030.

An atomic clock-accurate digital device worn on the wrist is called a smartwatch.

It is connected to a smartphone and gets alerts for new emails, messages, and phone calls.

There are several apps in it that offer extra functionality like showing stock prices, maps, and weather updates.

Additionally, it has the ability to send and receive text messages as well as phone calls.

Due to the fact that it comes with fitness trackers and health monitoring tools to assist customers in keeping track of their health, its popularity is expanding globally.

Smartwatch Market- Overview

Smartwatches are predominantly designed to, make phone calls and send and receive text messages. These are designed to be worn on their own or when they are paired with a smart phone.

They provide features, such as connecting to the internet, to run mobile apps, or to make calls, checking caller ID, accessing stock & weather updates, also the provision of fitness monitoring capabilities, offering GPS coordinates & location directions, and many more functions.

A smartwatch is defined as a wrist-worn digital device, which provides atomic clock accuracy. It is also linked to a smartphone and helps in receiving notifications for e-mails, texts, and incoming phone calls.

A smartwatch includes a number of apps that provide added features, such as presenting weather updates, maps, and stock values.

The popularity of these watches are growing around the world because it includes fitness trackers and also helps in monitoring devices to help consumers track their health.

Key Trends of Global Smartwatch Market: • Rise in demand for wireless sports and fitness devices Rise in demand for wireless sports and fitness devices, increase in health awareness among end users, and surge in technological advancements by market players are anticipated to boost the growth of smart watch market. Additionally, rising emphasis on connected devices and smart systems among several industries, and growing demand for connected ecosystem are projected to offer significant opportunities for smart watch market globally. The increase in data dependency among end users and huge investments in building smart cities by the government of various countries are the key success areas that bolster the demand for smart wearable devices. • Evolving Technologies As technologies continue to evolve and merge in an ever changing digital world, a number of theoretical models have been proposed to study the user’s adoption of new technologies. Wearable technologies such as smart watches are also a new form of fashion accessories for users. Led by inventions, smart watch manufacturers are investing heavily on the R&D activities.

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Segmental analysis of the Market

Based on product

·         Extension

·         Standalone

·         Classical

Extension smartwatches have dominated the market growth. This is because of its various features and the growth of well-equipped smartwatches.

Based on application

·         Personal Assistance

·         Wellness

·         Healthcare

·         Sports

·         Others

Healthcare segment has dominated the market over the forecast period. This is because of the rise in awareness among the consumers regarding their health and fitness.

Based on operating system

·         Watch IOS

·         Android

·         REAL-TIME OPERATING SYSTEM

·         Tizen

·         Others

WatchIOS segment has dominated the market growth over the forecast period. This is because IOS has gained the maximum popularity among consumers.

North America is anticipated to amplify at a considerable CAGR

North America, Europe, Asia pacific, and Middle East and Africa are the major regions constituting the geographical landscape of smartwatch market. Among these, North America has dominated the regional market share. This is because of the rise in number of users in the region.

Table of Contents

1. Global Smartwatch Market Introduction and Market Overview

2. Global Smartwatch Market - Executive Summary

3. Smartwatch Market Trends, Outlook, and Factors Analysis

4. Global Smartwatch Market: Estimates & Historic Trend Analysis (2018 to 2021)

5. Global Smartwatch Market Estimates & Forecast Trend Analysis, by Deployment

6. Global Smartwatch Market Estimates & Forecast Trend Analysis, by Component

7. Global Smartwatch Market Estimates & Forecast Trend Analysis, by Content Type

8. Global Smartwatch Market Estimates & Forecast Trend Analysis, by End Use

9. Global Smartwatch Market Analysis and Forecast, by Region

10. North America Smartwatch Market: Estimates & Forecast Trend Analysis

11. Europe Smartwatch Market: Estimates & Forecast Trend Analysis

12. Asia Pacific Smartwatch Market: Estimates & Forecast Trend Analysis

13. Middle East & Africa Smartwatch Market: Estimates & Forecast Trend Analysis

14. Latin America Smartwatch Market: Estimates & Forecast Trend Analysis

15. Competitive Landscape

16. Company Profiles

17. Assumptions and Research Methodology

18. Conclusions and Recommendations

Competitive Landscape

The prominent players influencing the competitive hierarchy of the market

sphere are Apple Inc., Fitbit Inc., Garmin, Huawei Technologies, Fossil Group, Motorola, Sony Corporation, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, TomTom International and Amazon.

Major questions answered in this report

·         What is the growth rate of Smartwatch market?

·         What are the primary growth determinants of the market?

·         Which are the major regions constituting the geographical landscape of the market?

·         Which are the prominent companies operating in the market?

Key takeaways from the report

·         Smartwatch market is projected to register at a CAGR of 19.6% over the forecast period of 2022-2030.

·         The increase in demand for wireless sports and fitness devices is aiding

·         market progression.

·         Healthcare segment has poised to expand significantly over the forecast period.

·         North America is anticipated to amplify at a considerable CAGR.

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ETSA nominees for Midas Touch & Startup of the Year; Meesho to raise $550-600M

ETSA nominees for Midas Touch & Startup of the Year; Meesho to raise $550-600M

Hi there, it’s Samidha. Today’s the big day we’ve all been gearing up for here at ETtech, as The Economic Times Startup Awards (ETSA) 2021 elite jury meets to pick the winners across nine categories. The jury meeting is a closed-door affair which is highly charged up with intense deliberations. The jury comes fully prepared every year having dived into the dossier sent to them, armed with questions and observations.

This would be the second year in a row that the jury will meet virtually. No wonder everything is a little less tense compared to last year, when we were new to doing virtual events.

Once the jury votes and picks the winners after multiple rounds of discussions, the editorial team will work through the weekend to bring to you 360-degree coverage of the winners on Monday morning across print and digital.

Here are the nominees for the two most prestigious awards — Midas Touch for the best investor and Startup of the Year. What a stellar set of contenders we have once again, best of luck to all of them.

Check them out here and come back on Monday to find out who the winners are.

Now onto some big scoops.

Meesho, DealShare and the in-demand social commerce sector

Meesho cofounders Sanjeev Barnwal (left) and Vidit Aatrey

Social commerce startup Meesho is finalising a $550-600 million financing round that’s likely to be led by Fidelity, two sources told us.

Facebook cofounder Eduardo Saverin’s B Capital, and existing backers SoftBank, Prosus Ventures and others will also participate in the funding round, which will more than double the company’s valuation to $5 billion.

“While Fidelity is expected to plough in more than $100 million, B Capital and other new investors will cough up $50-100 million each…,” a person familiar with the talks said, adding, “There could be an official announcement on this soon.”

Meesho was valued at $2.1 billion in April when it raised $300 million from SoftBank Vision Fund.

Rival scouting deals: Meanwhile, DealShare — another social commerce startup that specialises in groceries and essentials — is also looking to raise funds. Sources told us the company has held talks with private equity funds such as TPG Growth and is likely to raise $150-200 million at a valuation of $1.8-2 billion.

Social commerce booming: Meesho, the dominant player in India’s growing social commerce space, lets small businesses sell products using WhatsApp and Facebook.

Walmart-owned Flipkart has also entered this category with Shopsy, which currently accounts for under 10% of its overall gross merchandise value (GMV). It offers around 150 million products across fashion, beauty, mobile phones and home, but not groceries.

Foreign ecommerce ventures such as Singapore’s Shopee are also planning to enter India, while US-based social shopping site Poshmark is already here.

Yes, but: India’s low-end, unbranded ecommerce market where Meesho operates is hard to crack. The company’s current burn rate — what it spends to acquire users — is $20-25 million a month, a source said.

ETtech Done Deals

■ Medikabazaar, a business-to-business healthtech platform, said it has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round led by Creaegis, along with CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution, making it the highest fundraising in the B2B healthcare space. The company said it will use the funds to strengthen its digital capabilities, deepen the supply ecosystem and technology driven distribution channels, and bolster capacity.

■ Fittr, a community-based health and online fitness marketplace, has raised $11.5 million in a Series A funding led by Dream Sports’ corporate venture fund Dream Capital and Elysian Park Ventures, the private investment arm of the LA Dodgers Ownership Group. Existing investor Sequoia India’s Surge also participated in the funding round. It will use the capital to step up growth and expansion into new markets, including North America, the UK and Singapore.

■ Conversational messaging startup Gupshup has acquired New Jersey-based business messaging solutions provider Dotgo in a majority stock deal. Dotgo will strengthen Gupshup’s conversational messaging platform, which helps businesses and developers build customer experiences. The acquisition comes at a time when Gupshup is planning a potential initial public offering (IPO) in the US next July.

■ Karbon Card, a fintech startup offering corporate cards, has raised $12 million in a funding round that also included US-based fintech unicorn Ramp, Rainfall Ventures, Roka Works, and Y Combinator among other global investors. The capital will be used to step-up product development and operations, and to double its staff strength to 60 over the next six months.

■ Kalpathi AGS Group-owned Veranda Learning Solutions on Thursday announced that it has acquired edtech company Edureka for Rs 245 crore. Edureka is a live instructor-led online solutions provider for the IT industry and this 100% acquisition marks Veranda Learning Solutions’ second buyout since December 2020.

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EXCLUSIVE: Paytm founder Sharma gets new stock options ahead of IPO

Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Paytm’s founder, is getting a significant amount of new stock options in its parent firm One97 Communications, which will increase his stake in the company by 2-3%, sources told us. The news comes ahead of One97’s $2.2-billion IPO.

Paytm recently increased its employee stock options pool from 24,094,280 to 61,094,280 equity options at a face value of Re 1 each. Almost half of the new stock options have been allocated to Sharma, a source said, adding that these are performance-linked and based on Paytm achieving certain milestones.

“This is also a way of the management rewarding Sharma for scaling Paytm to this point (IPO) as a leading payments firm,” another person close to the company said.

Reward: Sharma’s windfall is not an anomaly. Many top-tier founders have been granted such stock options before their IPOs so they can reap the benefits of taking the company public. We reported on September 10 that the founders of Tata-owned BigBasket were also granted new management stock options to ‘retain, attract and motivate’ talent.

Sharma, who holds around 15% in One97 Communications, is planning to sell a part of his holding through an offer for sale (OFS) in the upcoming IPO. The new stock options will increase his holding even after he sells a part of his stake. Investors such as Ant Group, Alibaba, SoftBank and Elevation Capital are also expected to sell parts of their stake in the IPO.

Employees cash in: Over the past few months, many current and former Paytm executives have converted their stock options into shares, hoping for big gains from the IPO. In August, the company granted new stock options to 166 former and current employees, which were then converted into shares, regulatory filings showed.

Yesterday we reported, citing a regulatory filing, that about 20 more employees have converted their stock options into a total of 5,45,735 shares.

Mega IPO: Paytm filed its draft IPO paper in July, seeking to raise Rs 16,600 crore ($2.2 billion). The offering will comprise a fresh issue worth Rs 8,300 crore and an OFS of the same size. It could also see a pre-IPO funding round of up to Rs 2,000 crore. If this happens, it will adjust the size of the fresh issue accordingly, the company said in its filing.

Google files petition against CCI over leaked probe report

Google has filed a writ petition in the Delhi High Court against the Competition Commission of India (CCI) over the leaking of a confidential report by its director general (DG) on an ongoing investigation by CCI into its Android agreements.

Google said it has not yet received or reviewed the 750-page report, which the Times of India and Reuters had cited on September 18 to state that the CCI had found evidence that Google was abusing its dominant position.

The DG’s report does not reflect the final decision of the CCI.

What Google said: The company said this breach of confidence impaired its ability to defend itself and harmed it and its partners.

“We are deeply concerned that the Director General’s Report, which contains our confidential information in an ongoing case, was leaked to the media while in the CCI’s custody. Protecting confidential information is fundamental to any governmental investigation, and we are pursuing our legal right to seek redress and prevent any further unlawful disclosures,” a Google spokesperson said.

The investigation: The probe in question was launched in April 2019, when the CCI said in an order that Google appeared to have misused its dominant position in India by discouraging phone manufacturers from choosing alternative versions of Android, which runs 98% of smartphones in India.

According to reports, the probe found Google India guilty of stifling competition and innovation to the detriment of the market and consumers to maintain its dominance in search, music (through YouTube), browsers (Chrome), app libraries (Play Store) and other key services.

Not the only one: Google is subject to two other investigations by the CCI.

Banks say they will comply with new rules for recurring payments by October 1

Three of India’s largest private lenders — HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Axis Bank –- said they will comply with the RBI’s new rules for recurring payments ahead of the October 1 deadline.

India’s payments ecosystem, online merchants and consumers are anticipating large-scale disruption in recurring payments through debit and credit cards owing to the central bank’s new rules.

What the rules say: The RBI’s new rules say that banks can only process auto-debit transactions if they send a pre-debit notification to customers at least 24 hours before the payment is due.

The new rules also say that for auto-transactions above Rs 5,000, customers will need to authenticate the payment manually with a one-time password (OTP).

According to sources, banks are working with payment aggregators Razorpay and BillDesk to integrate with a common e-mandate platform that will ensure compliance.

Quote: ”We will be going live in the next 2-3 days, complying with RBI guidelines,” said Sanjeev Moghe, head of cards and payments at Axis Bank.

Earlier this year, several banks had said they would be unable to comply with this rule in time, following which the central bank postponed its implementation in March. It said non-compliant banks that continued to process such transactions after September would face strict action.

UK clarified it has no concerns with CoWin, says RS Sharma

The UK has clarified that it has no concerns with India’s Covid-19 vaccination certificate issuing portal CoWin, RS Sharma, Chairman of the Empowered Group on Vaccine Administration told us.

Sharma, who is also the CEO of the National Health Authority, said there have been two meetings with the UK authorities this month and there are “no issues” with respect to CoWIN.

Quote: “The British side has never shown any concern about the Cowin certification process to the best of my knowledge, and they have also clarified the same,” said Sharma, adding that there was no written communication from the UK anywhere stating that they would not accept certificates issued through CoWin.

Earlier in the day, Alex Ellis, British High Commissioner to India said on Twitter that he had excellent “technical discussions” with RS Sharma and the National Health Authority.

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Digital Health Market 2018 to Earn a Valuation of USD 382 billion by 2025

The Digital Health Market is estimated to be around $382 billion by 2025. Digital health is the convergence of digital technologies with healthcare. It facilitates speedy collection of relevant data and in turn the improvement of healthcare services

North America dominated the global digital health market in 2016, due to various programs adopted by different organizations (such as American Health Information Community and the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine)offering sports medicine fellowships for conducting research to develop innovative products. Due to the adoption of HITECH act in 2009, the U.S. has witnessed tremendous advancements in digital health innovations. The European market is an attractive segment for the global players due to increasing number of chronic disorders in this region. Germany has seen a substantial growth in digital health market. In 2015, the E-Health Law was approved in Germany to improve the interoperability in different healthcare IT systems. Due to increasing geriatric population, Europe and China hold attractive opportunities for growth of digital health products.

Prominent Players of Digital Health Market:

Key players operating in this market are Cerner Corporation, AT & T, Inc., Qualcomm, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., Athena Health, Inc., Philips Healthcare, Biotelemetry, Inc., Lifewatch AG, McKesson Corporation, and eClinicalWorks.

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Industry Outlook and Trend Analysis: The digital health market is estimated to be around $382 billion by 2025.

Digital health is the convergence of digital technologies with healthcare. It facilitates speedy collection of relevant data and in turn the improvement of healthcare services. The global digital health market is rapidly expanding due to high penetration of mobile devices and internet connectivity all over the world. More than one third of the global population is estimated to own a smartphone by 2017. Innovations in technology enabled wearable health monitoring devices have propelled the digital health market to new heights. Integration of medical devices with smartphones has facilitated real time tracking of health parameters from distant locations. Remote monitoring services facilitating patient monitoring from a remote location is set to further drive the demand for digital health devices.

Digital Health industry Product and Organization Outlook and Trend Analysis:

The electronic health records (EHR) and e-prescription were the largest selling products in 2016. EHR segment witnessed substantial growth due to government initiatives and rise in investments for the development of innovative products. mHealth market is expected to register highest growth rate due to increase in smartphone sales and increased adoption of mobile communication technology. Cost effectiveness provided by mobile devices to monitor health related parameters has also driving the market growth. Low cost and high value applications of digital health products have resulted in their adoption at a fast pace globally. Health analytics product segment is expected to show consistent growth in the forecast period as they reduce the healthcare costs and incorrect diagnosis.

Digital Health industry Opportunities Outlook and Trend Analysis:

Digital health offers more advanced and efficient healthcare services than traditional one. Increasing demand for advanced healthcare information systems propose lucrative opportunities for the expansion of digital health market. Remote monitoring services are changing the way health monitoring was perceived traditionally. The home healthcare segment also has enormous scope for the development of advanced innovative products with a rising demand for these products globally. Health analytics is a rapidly growing segment which is expected to see consistent innovations backed by investments from governments as well as large market players.

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The Digital Health Market Market is segmented as follows- Digital Health Market, By Technology, Estimates and Forecast, 2016-2025 ($Million)

Tele Healthcare Market, By Type

Telecare, Activity Monitoring, Remote Medication Management, Telehealth, LTC Monitoring, Video Consulting

mHealth Market, By Type

Wearables, BP Monitors, Glucose Meters, Pulse Oximeters, Sleep Apnea Monitors, Neuromonitors

Apps

Medical Apps, Fitness Apps,

Health Analytics Market, By Type

Digital Health Systems Market, By Type

Electronic Health Records, E-prescribing Systems

What makes our report unique?

1) An extensive research study on the Global Digital Health Market and its entire ecosystem, describes the market trends, drivers, restraints and opportunities of the Digital Health Market

2) We provide you the longest possible market segmentation based on type of products, procedures and geography and describe the market share region wise.

3) The report gives a bird eyes view on the competitive landscape which includes mergers and acquisitions, collaborations, market strategies, and new product launches.

Major TOC of Digital Health Market

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Executive Summary

Chapter 3. Market Overview

Chapter 4. Digital Health Market, By Technology

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Global Digital Health Market Assessment and Forecast, By Technology, 2016-2025

4.3. Telehealthcare

4.3.3. Telecare

4.3.4. Telehealth

4.4. mHealth

4.4.3. Wearables

4.4.3.1. Market Assessment and Forecast, By Type, 2016-2025 ($Million)

4.4.3.2. Market Assessment and Forecast, By Region, 2016-2025 ($Million)

4.4.3.3. BP Monitors

4.4.3.3.1. Market Assessment and Forecast, By Region, 2016-2025 ($Million)

4.4.3.4. Glucose Meters

4.4.3.4.1. Market Assessment and Forecast, By Region, 2016-2025 ($Million)

4.4.3.5. Pulse Oximeters

4.4.3.5.1. Market Assessment and Forecast, By Region, 2016-2025 ($Million)

4.4.3.6. Sleep Apnea Monitors

4.4.3.6.1. Market Assessment and Forecast, By Region, 2016-2025 ($Million)

4.4.3.7. Neuromonitors

4.4.3.7.1. Market Assessment and Forecast, By Region, 2016-2025 ($Million)

4.4.4. Apps

4.5. Health Analytics

Chapter 5. Digital Health Market, By Region

Chapter 6. Company Profiles

Chapter 7. Global Digital Health Market Market Competition, by Manufacturer

Chapter 8. Digital Health Market Market Forecast (2018-2023)

…CONTINUED FOR TOC

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List of Tables

Table 1.Global Digital Health Market, By Technology ($Million), 2016-2025

Table 2.Telehealthcare Market, By Type ($Million), 2016-2025

Table 3.Telehealthcare Market, By Region ($Million), 2016-2025

Table 4.Telecare Market, By Type ($Million), 2016-2025

Table 5.Telecare Market, By Region ($Million), 2016-2025

Table 6.Activity Monitoring Market, By Region ($Million), 2016-2025

Table 7.Remote Medication Management Market, By Region ($Million), 2016-2025

Table 8.Telehealth Market, By Type ($Million), 2016-2025

Table 9.Telehealth Market, By Region ($Million), 2016-2025

Table 10.LTC Monitoring Market, By Region ($Million), 2016-2025

Table 11.Video consulting Market, By Region ($Million), 2016-2025

Table 12.mHealth Market, By Type ($Million), 2016-2025

Table 13.mHealth Market, By Region ($Million), 2016-2025

List of Figures

Figure 1.Global Digital health Market Share, By Technology, 2016 & 2025

Figure 2.Global Digital Health Market Share, By Region, 2016 & 2025

Figure 3.Cerner Corporation: Net Revenues, 2014-2016 ($Million)

Figure 4.Cerner Corporation: Net Revenue Share, By Segment, 2016

Figure 5.Cerner Corporation: Net Revenue Share, By Geography, 2016

Figure 6.AT&T Inc.: Net Revenues, 2014-2016 ($Million)

Figure 7.AT&T Inc.: Net Revenue Share, By Segment, 2016

Figure 8.AT&T Inc.: Net Revenue Share, By Geography, 2016

Figure 9.Qualcomm, Inc.: Net Revenues, 2014-2016 ($Million)

Figure 10.Qualcomm, Inc.: Net Revenue Share, By Segment, 2016

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Verizon to Sell Yahoo, AOL for $5 Billion to Apollo

The private-equity firm is paying $4.25 billion in cash for a 90% share of the media assets. Verizon VZ 0.80% will keep a 10% stake and $750 million of additional preferred stock in the new company, called Yahoo, that will be formed to operate the business.

The Wall Street Journal earlier reported the potential sale of Verizon’s media assets to Apollo. Verizon VZ 0.80% Media, which mostly struggled to grow against Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc., generated $7 billion in revenue last year.

Apollo’s strategy for the business revolves around getting more revenue from each of its 900 million active monthly users. Verizon’s VZ 0.80% positioning of the media business as a complement to its core mobile business—aimed at helping it add subscribers and reduce the number of people who quit—meant it hasn’t pursued some opportunities to maximize the value of each asset, executives at the private-equity firm said.

For example, Yahoo has been a popular platform for sports betting, but isn’t formally licensed to host gambling. Apollo, however, is licensed in more than 200 jurisdictions for gambling.

“This is a typical Apollo deal in that these are very iconic, industry leading, businesses, but they need a little tender loving care,” David Sambur, the firm’s co-head of private equity, said in an interview.

Verizon Media’s revenue has increased more than 10% over the past two quarters, helped by rebounding demand from advertisers looking to tap an online shopping boom during the coronavirus pandemic. Digital-ad sales are expected to accelerate in the coming months as consumers start spending more cash on travel and other activities.

Other suitors previously showed interest in buying off certain pieces of the media unit, which includes websites such as TechCrunch and Yahoo Finance, but weren’t willing to make an offer for the whole portfolio, according to a person familiar with the matter.

For Apollo, buying the entire portfolio means needing to have a view on how to run each of the diverse properties. The firm specializes in doing such complex deals and has focused on boosting growth at other internet companies it owns, including online-photo-services company Shutterfly Inc.

Verizon Chief Executive Hans Vestberg said in an interview the company’s long-term strategy to provide “network-as-a-service” to customers over fiber-optic and cellular connections made the media business a better fit under new owners. He portrayed the sale as an outcome years in the making.

Global 5G adoption is accelerating. The revolutionary cellular technology is spurring even more innovation in prime growth sectors.

“We prioritize our investments with the network,” Mr. Vestberg said on Monday. “This conclusion came a pretty long time ago.”

Verizon collected some of the web’s best-known brands starting in 2015 with its purchase of AOL, followed by its 2017 acquisition of Yahoo. AOL’s then-chief, Tim Armstrong, called the new business a super channel for advertisers to reach hundreds of millions of users. The company at the time touted an active user base of more than one billion people.

Executives framed the newly named Oath business as an alternative way for marketers to reach potential customers outside of a digital ecosystem dominated by Google, Facebook and Amazon.com Inc. But the stitched-together media group couldn’t keep up with its technology rivals’ explosive sales growth, and Verizon in 2018 wrote down about half of the value of the media brands it had acquired.

Verizon has been shrinking its media unit, cutting jobs and selling off its Tumblr blogging platform and HuffPost news operation.

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In 2018, Verizon named Mr. Vestberg CEO, picking a telecom-industry veteran with a penchant for sketching out engineering concepts on whiteboards for its top job. The Swedish transplant has spent little time discussing media and has more often touted the cellphone carrier’s plan to boost revenue through the construction of a next-generation wireless network. Verizon has been shrinking the media unit, cutting jobs and selling off its Tumblr blogging platform and HuffPost news operation.

Guru Gowrappan, the current head of Verizon Media and a former Yahoo executive, will continue to run the business after the deal. The partners expect the transaction to close in the second half of the year.

The media division, which employs about 10,000 people, started with 14,000 employees in 2017. Verizon as a whole employed about 132,000 workers at the end of 2020.

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Verizon didn’t specify how it would use the sale proceeds, though executives have previously said they would make debt payments a priority. The cellphone carrier’s borrowing swelled this year after it committed roughly $53 billion to secure wireless-spectrum licenses auctioned by the Federal Communications Commission.

Other telecommunications companies are likewise reassessing their priorities. The Journal has reported that AT&T Inc. last year began to field bids for much of the digital-ad business formerly known as Xandr. The unit, which includes operations acquired from the AppNexus digital-ad exchange for $1.6 billion in 2018, has increased sales but has failed to meet executives’ aggressive targets.

��Ben Mullin and Micah Maidenberg contributed to this article

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Different Developing Trends of Global Smartwatch Market Outlook: Ken Research

Smartwatches are intended to either on their own or when combined with a smart phone, provide features such as connecting to the internet, running mobile apps, making calls, messaging through text or video, checking caller ID, retrieving stock & weather updates, provided that fitness monitoring skills, providing GPS coordinates & location directions, and additional. A hybrid smartwatch provide the benefits of a regular smartwatch with some linked features but deprived of a touch display or a charging functionality. The smartwatch can be effortlessly attached with smartphone through wireless connectivity and Bluetooth feature. This also assistances the sports person or any client to programme their day to day responsibilities.

According to the analysis, ‘Global Smartwatch Market 2020-2030 by Product Type, Operating System, User Gender, Age Group, Distribution Channel, Application, and Region: Trend Outlook and Growth Opportunity’ there are so much key players that are working for the boost of the market that surrounds of Google Inc., Connected Device Ltd., Neptune Pine, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Pebble Technology Corporation, Apple, Inc., Samsung Electronics, Qualcomm Inc., ASUSTeK Computer Inc., Sony Corporation, Fitbit, Inc, Timex Group Inc., Razer Inc., Xiaomi.

Led by inventions smartwatch corporations are expenses heavily on the R&D front. Top players are including on their R&D investments as a highlighted strategy to upsurge their own market shares. Further, a sturdy distribution support is additional key aspect of this market. The foremost companies are cooperating with their dealers and resellers to penetrate in the market during the right selection of the channel, region and target audience. Numerous features comprise notifications, alerts, and apps and answer messages by voice, media management, fitness tracing and a very decent battery life.

Advanced and progressive features are motivating the global smartwatch market and are also expected to improve the overall sales of smartwatches within the coming years. Design and growth of gender-based smartwatches are deliberated as one of the chances of this market.

However, high initial price of the technology and difficulties related to power consumption and low battery life hinder the market development. Furthermore, expanding emphasis for linked devices among numerous industries and accumulative demand for connected ecosystem are predictable to provide lucrative smartwatch market development internationally.

The regional investigation of Global Smartwatch market is taken into the account for the key provinces like APAC, Europe, North America, Latin America, RoW. Europe is that the passionate province over the domain inside terms of open market share on account of initiation of large expanse of shopper’s within the region. Whereas, North America is as well estimative to exhibition exhilarating rate over the forecast amount 2020-2026.

Furthermore, increasing concern regarding personal health & fitness and the growth within use of Smartphone’s are the key features driving the development of this market? Moreover, innovative features like tracking, alerts and connectivity within smartwatches have garnered customer interest within recent years. Smart watches established on operating systems (OS), like Tizen and proprietary OS are predictable to show important development during the forecast period. Therefore, it is predicted that the Global Smartwatch market can increase within approaching years.

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Wearable Technology Market by Product (Wristwear, Headwear, Footwear, Fashion & Jewelry, Bodywear), Type (Smart Textile, Non-Textile), Application (Consumer Electronics, Healthcare, Enterprise & Industrial), and Geography - Global Forecast to 2026 published on

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Wearable Technology Market by Product (Wristwear, Headwear, Footwear, Fashion & Jewelry, Bodywear), Type (Smart Textile, Non-Textile), Application (Consumer Electronics, Healthcare, Enterprise & Industrial), and Geography - Global Forecast to 2026

Growing applications of wearable devices are anticipated to surge the adoption of wearable technology

Wearable technology market was valued at USD 116.2 billion in 2021 and is anticipated to reach USD 265.4 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 18.0% between 2021 to 2026. The key factors contributing to the growth of the wearable technology market include the rising share of the aging population and mounting benefits of wearable devices in the healthcare sector. The market is further driven by the advent of platforms such as IoT, AR, and machine to machine (M2M); the growing interest of tier 1 players in the wearable ecosystem; and the growing trend of smart living among end users.

The growing demand for wearable technology in applications such as sports and fitness tracking and for multi-featured and hybrid application mobile devices are expected to provide major growth opportunities for the wearable technology market.

The consumer electronics segment recorded the largest shipment of wearable device in 2020

The consumer electronics segment registered the largest shipment of wearable devices in 2020. The reason behind the growth of this market is that a majority of consumers use wearable technology products to address their health and fitness tracking needs. Wearable technology and the development of related mobile apps further increase the benefits of wearable devices (such as smartwatches and smart bands). Furthermore, sports companies are taking the initiatives to develop new fitness-related applications suitable for wristwear. For instance, Under Armour, Inc. (US), a company developing sports clothing and accessories, launched applications such as MapMyRun, MyFitnessPal, and Endomondo. It also added advanced features such as smart scale and heart-rate fitness tracker to its app. Considering all such developments, the consumer electronics market is expected to register the largest shipments by 2026.

Asia Pacific is the fastest-growing region in the wearable technology market

APAC is the fastest-growing region in the wearable technology market and is made up of 4 major countries—China, Japan, South Korea, and India. Applications such as consumer electronics, industrial, healthcare, and textile contribute significantly to the growth of the market for wearable technology in this region. Asia Pacific has become a global focal point for large investments and business expansion opportunities. In addition, wearable technologies are widely used in oil refineries (for communication and safety purposes). The major consumer electronics companies operating in APAC include Samsung Group (South Korea), Sony Corp. (Japan), Panasonic Corp. (Japan), and LG Electronics (South Korea).

The breakup of primaries conducted during the study is depicted below:

By Company Type: Tier 1 – 43 %, Tier 2 – 36%, and Tier 3 –21%

By Designation: C-Level Executives – 38%, Directors – 22%, and Others – 40%

By Region: Americas– 45%, Europe – 17%, APAC – 30% and ROW – 8%

Research Coverage

The report segments the wearable technology market and forecasts its size, by volume and value, based on region (Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, and RoW), Product (Wristwear, Headwear, Footwear, Fashion & Jewelry, Bodywear), Type (Smart Textile, Non-Textile), Application (Consumer Electronics, Healthcare, Enterprise & Industrial).

The report also provides a comprehensive review of market drivers, restraints, opportunities, and challenges in the wearable technology market. The report also covers qualitative aspects in addition to the quantitative aspects of these markets.

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This report includes market statistics pertaining to the product, type, application, and region.

An in-depth value chain analysis has been done to provide deep insight into the wearable technology market.

Major market drivers, restraints, challenges, and opportunities have been detailed in this report.

Illustrative segmentation, analyses, and forecasts for the market based on product, type, application, and region have been conducted to provide an overall view of the wearable technology market.

The report includes an in-depth analysis and ranking of key players.

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Manifesto. Story. Manual. Diary. Journal

Le T-ecosystem

13/03/2020

  The State of Things

Somehow we all manage to live on credit. Ever since last century we have been living on promises – ours and theirs, our parents’ and our dogs. From the moment we created the concept of future growth we stopped worrying and went on a careless pursuit of happiness.

Our world is crumbling down and there seems to be little to be done to make it carry itself a little longer. People quit their jobs and run into the woods to raise goats and write novels that nobody will read because there will be nobody left, people live in cities, minimalists, 0 waste, contemporary hippies. The rest just sits around waiting for the next wave of nitrogen oxide to enter their naively open windows. There are apps that tell you when the air pollution is low enough so you can take a walk – not to atrophy your muscles by staying inside and working on your laptop like a good little ant that you are; you and your 0 waste compost can, while England is buying carbon-credit.

Of course, England is where all this mess started in the first place, so they continue burning coal and with the money that comes from it they buy green energy somewhere else on the planet, like this is all a big farm that we can balance through dividing the planet in half, one exhales, the other inhales, like junkies passing on the last smoke of ganja.

Others see the immensity of this infrastructure as too unsustainable. As much as we dream of grandeur, we are not giants, we are not gods and we are not as important as we want to be. Thus there are who say that the goal is to absorb your own shit in your own country. That’s more reasonable, that’s scaled, fitted, better.

The What

But what if… we could find a way to be neutral at an atomic level? What if we could invent a system to be applied whenever we needed to build? What if it is not building that is the enemy but the how? If one can conceive of neutrality at a country level, one can surely scale it down to the city and then the lot.

In a corrupt, power-hungry, money-driven, under-developed country, this might be the only available path to salvation from implosion. What if on the lot to be built one could use all technology available (and mostly subsidized by the state or the European Union) to become harmless – or even…helpful?

Here is when we present the concept of Concave Ecocentric Architecture. Concave stands for multiuse, multicultural; Ecocentric is a play on egocentric, our god until now – it means that we look to re-establish the balance in nature and that humans take on a role that helps, and leave behind the one that destroys. We choose “architecture” for the immensity of its possible meanings, we appeal to its creative power, to its ability for action, to its quality of sense generator in a system (without limiting its meaning to the manipulation of tectonics by one person).

The offspring of Concave Ecocentric Architecture is the T-Ecosystem. A human-made ecosystem that functions on the principles of natural ecosystems might blur the lines between urban and rural just enough for people not to have to choose between the advantages and the disadvantages of both. What we mean when saying that this has to work as an ecosystem is that the ultimate goal is for it to produce its own energy, consume it, and then have some left to help the less fortunate. It would be an ethical machine of sharing and exchange with one part supplying the other. Money coming through one door, as that door is open to capitalism, goes through the hands of the community and it filters all the way to the extremities of the socially and environmentally oriented chunks of the T-Ecosystem. Energy flows in the other sense, as the environmentally focused part of the T-Ecosystem produces more than it consumes, it allows it to flow towards the hungrier parts of it, like the communicating vessels.

This shall turn into the emblem and landmark of new economic, ecological, societal, anthropological, biological, natural model. A place that can function on its own, almost a perpetuum-mobile of human growth together with landscape.

 The Why

It is impossible and unsustainable to live on the side we have been living on. The pursuit of happiness through consumerism, short shots of skag that last for one to ten minutes until we have to shoot up again proved itself to be reason enough for a trip to rehab.

The issue is that there seems to be no alternative to consumerism-loaded syringes.

Population is growing but the drug is getting thinner.

Everything that has been used up until now has been swept under the rug, but the rug cannot cover it anymore, its corners are in the air and we can see underneath.

Our suggestion is to start using methadone to ease withdrawal, to make do with this addiction to create something different, we believe in the “I’ve been clean for n days”, we believe in rehabilitation.

It is a question of will, like all desirable change, it is intentional and directed and as one wise online video once said, one minute of movement a day is more than nothing and it is more likely to lead to an hour, more likely to generate other lifestyle changes. Like a lifestyle coach, we come to tell you that we throw in our minute, the one we believe is capable of changing the world, little by little, by the power of example, ‘cause exercise kind of makes you feel guilty in the face of too much sugar.

There you have our why, one try at offering real and palpable experience, real and impactful change because compulsive ice-cream eating and plastic-wrap throwing is completely expired and passé.

Lenora Ditzler, who was introduced by Rem Koolhaas in his exhibition Countryside as an eco-feminist farmer says that planting various crops next to each other increases the probability that they survive hostile changes (they help build nutrients in the soil and they develop a system to protect each other in from pest and diseases). Like the Mayan agricultural techniques, we use all we have within our reach to create an ecosystem of our own.

The Where

Bucharest is the urban tissue that developed into one out of profoundly rural land, out of orchards and hay fields, a place where Carol the Ist of Romania first came off his carriage in mud, where people would carry themselves in western attire and would sit cross-legged on each other’s carpets with tea in their hands and silk hats on their heads.

Because we want to make it clear that we do not mean that the invention is to function only on tabula-rasa, we choose to place ours in Bucharest, on a communist ruin, a mastodon of waste and meaninglessness from where Ceausescu watched the last parade given in his honour, a building known under the name of “Casa Radio”.

We take advantage of this occasion to introduce a little history. Casa Radio is by no means the only ruin of Romanian Totalitarianism; it is only the biggest one that is completely unused.

Almost all totalitarian architectural efforts have been caught unfinished by the revolution. Immediately after, the city found itself with huge concrete structures built with people’s money and at the expense of their feeding and health. Because at that point architecture was the last thing on people’s minds, they have been left to perish in the weather. Not surprisingly, they became shelters for the homeless and became known as “centres of hunger”. This state lasted for around 15 years and then capitalism penetrated the market. At this stage, the structures were bought usually by foreign investors and turned into malls.

This is how Romania came to be known today as the country of malls.

Taking the place of a hippodrome (bourgeois function), Casa Radio was meant to become a cultural centre, the one and only museum of communism where all citizens would come to learn about the great deeds of the regime and their father and mother, Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu. Unfinished, it was inaugurated in ’89 so that the ruler could watch the parade on the 23rd of August. But the revolution came in December that same year and nobody wanted to deal with that mega-structure anymore, it was too big and people scattered around, the first generation to be freed remembering it as the place where they were forced into labour. 31 years have passed and it’s still a ruin, rotting away under the increasingly violent sun, making the city a little bit hotter with its concrete mass, untended to and naked.

It’s a big lot, 437x235m, almost 103.000sqm of land, near the Dâmbovița River, surrounded by wide urban highways, like the Egg in Beirut. Casa Radio is found in the midst of influent urban functions such as the University Hospital, the Opera House, University of Sport (ANEFS), University of Medicine, Student Campus, National Agency for Roma, Faculty of Law, Business Centre (Opera Centre) etc.

In short this is the perfect place to work with the meaning of ruin, this one being both a ruin of a totalitarian regime and one of capitalism for people could not agree on a price for its exploitation, to work with the concepts of urban and rural, given the immense space that it has to offer; it is the perfect place to interrogate the relationship cities have with their rivers, their main circulation arteries, their identity, their citizens.

And this is the perfect time to ask questions about the direction architecture can move towards, especially when people like Rem Koolhaas tell us that architecture becomes obsolete. Maybe this is the time to redefine what architecture can do.

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Smartwatch Market 2018 Will Generate New Growth Opportunities in The Upcoming Year to Expand its Size in Overseas Market till 2025

KD Market research launches a new market research report on the Smartwatch Market . The study covers a detailed in-depth analysis of the global market along with the regional and country level analysis. The study also delivers a complete analysis about the major & niche players of Smartwatch Market which includes profiling of Apple Inc., Google Inc., Garmin, Fitbit, Motorola, Sony Corporation, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, and Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.

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Smartwatch is a portable wearable device that is used to track various everyday activities such as steps covered in a day, calories burnt, heart rate, and others. Smartwatch is similar to a mobile phone device with a touchscreen display and consists of various apps through which an individual can access his mobile phone. Increase in adoption of smartphone along with fast internet connectivity is the key driver for the growth of the global smartwatch market. As of now, the market is driven by leading tech companies such as Xiaomi, Samsung, Apple, Google, and others.

The standalone segment accounts for the highest market share in the global smartwatch market due to features such as wireless operations, sim card acceptance, and others. Growth in demand for wireless fitness & sports devices, increase in health awareness among the consumer, and entrance of large number of players, drive the growth of the market.

The global smartwatch market is segmented based on product, application, operating system, and region. Based on product, the market is categorized into extension, standalone, and classical. Based on application, it is divided into personal assistance, wellness, healthcare, sports, and others. Based on operating system, the market is categorized as watchOS, android, RTOS, Tizen, and others. Based on region, it is analyzed across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and LAMEA.

The major players operating in the global smartwatch market are Apple Inc., Google Inc., Garmin, Fitbit, Motorola, Sony Corporation, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, and Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. These players have adopted various growth strategies, such as mergers, acquisitions, collaborations, and partnerships, to strengthen their market reach and retain their position in the market.

Key Benefits for Global Smartwatch Market:

· This study presents the analytical depiction of the global smartwatch market along with the current trends and future estimations to determine the imminent investment pockets.

·The report presents information regarding the key drivers, restraints, and opportunities.

· The current market is quantitatively analyzed from 2017 to 2025 to highlight the financial competency of the market.

· Porter’s five forces analysis illustrates the potency of the buyers and suppliers in the market.

Global Smartwatch Market Segmentations:

By Product – Extension, Standalone, Classical

By Application – Personal Assistance, Wellness, Healthcare, Sports, Others

By Operating System – WatchOS, Android, RTOS, Tizen, Others

By Region  – North America U.S., Canada, Mexico Europe UK, Germany, France, Italy, Rest of Europe Asia-Pacific China, India, Japan, Australia, Rest of Asia-Pacific LAMEA Latin America, Middle East, Africa

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Table of Content

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1. REPORT DESCRIPTION 1.2. KEY BENEFITS FOR STAKEHOLDERS 1.3. KEY MARKET SEGMENTS 1.4. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

1.4.1. Primary research 1.4.2. Secondary research 1.4.3. Analyst tools and models

CHAPTER 2: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

2.1. CXO PERSPECTIVE

CHAPTER 3: MARKET OVERVIEW

3.1. MARKET DEFINITION AND SCOPE 3.2. KEY FINDINGS

3.2.1. Top impacting factors 3.2.2. Top investment pockets 3.2.3. Top winning strategies

3.3. PORTERS FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 3.4. MARKET SHARE, 2017 3.5. MARKET DYNAMICS

3.5.1. Drivers

3.5.1.1. Growth in demand for wireless fitness & sports devices 3.5.1.2. Increase in health awareness among the consumers 3.5.1.3. Entrance of large number of players

3.5.2. Restraint

3.5.2.1. High initial cost

3.5.3. Opportunity

3.5.3.1. Rise in investment on building connected ecosystem

CHAPTER 4: GLOBALSMARTWATCH, BY PRODUCT

4.1. OVERVIEW 4.2. EXTENSION

4.2.1. Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities 4.2.2. Market size and forecast, by region 4.2.3. Market analysis by country

4.3. STANDALONE

4.3.1. Key market trends, growth factors, and opportunities 4.3.2. Market size and forecast, by region 4.3.3. Market analysis by country

4.4. CLASSICAL

4.4.1. Key market trends, growth factors, and opportunities 4.4.2. Market size and forecast, by region 4.4.3. Market analysis by country

CHAPTER 5: SMARTWATCH MARKET, BY APPLICATION

5.1. OVERVIEW 5.2. PERSONAL ASSISTANCE

5.2.1. Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities 5.2.2. Market size and forecast, by region 5.2.3. Market analysis by country

5.3. WELLNESS

5.3.1. Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities 5.3.2. Market size and forecast, by region 5.3.3. Market analysis by country

5.4. HEALTHCARE

5.4.1. Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities 5.4.2. Market size and forecast, by region 5.4.3. Market analysis by country

5.5. SPORTS

5.5.1. Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities 5.5.2. Market size and forecast, by region 5.5.3. Market analysis by country

5.6. OTHERS

5.6.1. Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities 5.6.2. Market size and forecast, by region 5.6.3. Market analysis by country

CHAPTER 6: SMARTWATCH MARKET, BY OPERATING SYSTEM

6.1. OVERVIEW 6.2. WATCHOS

6.2.1. Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities 6.2.2. Market size and forecast, by region 6.2.3. Market analysis by country

6.3. ANDROID

6.3.1. Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities 6.3.2. Market size and forecast, by region 6.3.3. Market analysis by country

6.4. REAL-TIME OPERATING SYSTEM

6.4.1. Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities 6.4.2. Market size and forecast, by region 6.4.3. Market analysis by country

6.5. TIZEN

6.5.1. Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities 6.5.2. Market size and forecast, by region 6.5.3. Market analysis by country

6.6. OTHERS

6.6.1. Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities 6.6.2. Market size and forecast, by region 6.6.3. Market analysis by country

CHAPTER 7: SMARTWATCH, BY REGION

7.1. OVERVIEW 7.2. NORTH AMERICA

7.2.1. Key market trends, growth factors, and opportunities 7.2.2. Market size and forecast, by product 7.2.3. Market size and forecast, by application 7.2.4. Market analysis by country

7.2.4.1. U.S.

7.2.4.1.1. Market size and forecast, by product 7.2.4.1.2. Market size and forecast, by application 7.2.4.1.3. Market size and forecast, by operating systems

7.2.4.2. Canada

7.2.4.2.1. Market size and forecast, by product 7.2.4.2.2. Market size and forecast, by application 7.2.4.2.3. Market size and forecast, by operating system

7.2.4.3. Mexico

7.2.4.3.1. Market size and forecast, by product 7.2.4.3.2. Market size and forecast, by application 7.2.4.3.3. Market size and forecast, by operating system

7.3. EUROPE

7.3.1. Key market trends, growth factors, and opportunities 7.3.2. Market size and forecast, by product 7.3.3. Market size and forecast, by application 7.3.4. Market analysis by country

7.3.4.1. UK

7.3.4.1.1. Market size and forecast, by product 7.3.4.1.2. Market size and forecast, by application 7.3.4.1.3. Market size and forecast, by operating system

7.3.4.2. Germany

7.3.4.2.1. Market size and forecast, by product 7.3.4.2.2. Market size and forecast, by application

7.3.4.3. France

7.3.4.3.1. Market size and forecast, by product 7.3.4.3.2. Market size and forecast, by application 7.3.4.3.3. Market size and forecast, by operating system

7.3.4.4. Italy

7.3.4.4.1. Market size and forecast, by product 7.3.4.4.2. Market size and forecast, by application 7.3.4.4.3. Market size and forecast, by operating system

7.3.4.5. Rest of Europe

7.3.4.5.1. Market size and forecast, by product 7.3.4.5.2. Market size and forecast, by application 7.3.4.5.3. Market size and forecast, by operating system

7.4. ASIA-PACIFIC

7.4.1. Key market trends, growth factors, and opportunities 7.4.2. Market size and forecast, by product 7.4.3. Market size and forecast, by application 7.4.4. Market size and forecast, by application 7.4.5. Market analysis by country

7.4.5.1. China

7.4.5.1.1. Market size and forecast, by product 7.4.5.1.2. Market size and forecast, by application 7.4.5.1.3. Market size and forecast, by operating system

7.4.5.2. Japan

7.4.5.2.1. Market size and forecast, by product 7.4.5.2.2. Market size and forecast, by application

7.4.5.3. India

7.4.5.3.1. Market size and forecast, by product 7.4.5.3.2. Market size and forecast, by application 7.4.5.3.3. Market size and forecast, by operating system

7.4.5.4. Australia

7.4.5.4.1. Market size and forecast, by product 7.4.5.4.2. Market size and forecast, by application 7.4.5.4.3. Market size and forecast, by operating system

7.4.5.5. Rest of Asia-Pacific

7.4.5.5.1. Market size and forecast, by product 7.4.5.5.2. Market size and forecast, by application 7.4.5.5.3. Market size and forecast, by operating system

7.5. LAMEA

7.5.1. Key market trends, growth factors, and opportunities 7.5.2. Market size and forecast, by product 7.5.3. Market size and forecast, by application 7.5.4. Market analysis by country

7.5.4.1. Latin America

7.5.4.1.1. Market size and forecast, by product 7.5.4.1.2. Market size and forecast, by application 7.5.4.1.3. Market size and forecast, by operating system

7.5.4.2. Middle East

7.5.4.2.1. Market size and forecast, by product 7.5.4.2.2. Market size and forecast, by application 7.5.4.2.3. Market size and forecast, by operating system

7.5.4.3. Africa

7.5.4.3.1. Market size and forecast, by product 7.5.4.3.2. Market size and forecast, by application 7.5.4.3.3. Market size and forecast, by operating system

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Know everything from Google for India 2019

At the fifth edition of its annual ‘Google for India' event, Google announced its plans to make the internet more accessible, inclusive and empowering for everyone in India. Talking about India’s digital transformation, and the unprecedented opportunities it has created, Caesar Sengupta, Vice-President, Next Billion Users Initiative and Payments shared, “With Google’s ongoing commitment to improve access beyond train stations to villages across India, we have partnered with BSNL to bring fast, reliable and secure public WiFi to villages in Gujarat, Bihar and Maharashtra. Talking about India’s potential to contribute to advancements in AI and its application to tackle big challenges. He announced, Google Research India. An AI lab in Bangalore that will focus on advancing fundamental computer science and AI research and applying this research to tackle big problems in fields like healthcare, agriculture, and education while also using it to make apps and services used by billions of people, more helpful.”

Google for India 2019 Announcements

Partners with BSNL to bring fast, reliable and secure public WiFi to villages in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Bihar Launches Vodafone-Idea Phone Line powered by Google Assistant -- to make information accessible to 2G users  Expands Indian language support across Google Assistant, Discover, Lens and Bolo  Launches Tokenized cards for debit card and credit card users across India, and a brand new ‘Google Pay for Business’ app for merchants  Introduces Spot Platform on Google Pay for merchants to create branded commercial experiences that bridge the offline and online worlds  Announces a new Jobs effort focusing on entry-level jobs, and a partnership with National Skills Development Corporation for their Skill India program In addition, Google also announced an initiative to help the hundreds of millions of Indians who use 2G phones get the information they need, without requiring data or an internet connection. While improving access to the internet is just the first step, making it relevant and helpful, with information they need, and in the languages they speak, is equally critical. Recognizing Assistant’s popularity in India, Manuel Bronstein, Vice President, Product Management, Google said “For many Indians, voice is increasingly becoming their preferred way to search, and today Hindi has become the second-most used Assistant language globally--after English.” He announced an all new experience in nine Indian languages , that will help users talk to their Assistant more naturally, without the need to go digging around in settings. For example, Hindi speaking users can now simply say, “Hey Google, talk to me in Hindi”. The feature will be accessible on all Android, Android Go and KaiOs devices. He also announced that interpreter mode will be coming soon to the Assistant on Android and Android Go phones in the coming months, which will help translate from one language to another, helping unlock more relevant information and content for even more users across India. Manuel also launched, The Vodafone-Idea Phone Line—supported by the Google Assistant that enables Vodafone-Idea users to call a single number free of charge (000 800 9191000), at any time, and ask for everything from sports scores, traffic conditions and weather forecasts or simply get help with homework. Avneesh Khosla, Operations Director, Marketing, Vodafone Idea Limited said, “There are millions of Indians who are still using feature phones, and are unable to enjoy the benefits of mobile internet. Through this partnership with Google, we are bringing a first-of-its kind offering for our feature phone users -- the Phone Line service enables our customers to call a number free of charge, and access the Google Assistant to experience the power of the Internet even without a data connection.” Alongside making the Assistant more helpful for Indians, Yossi Matias, Vice President, Engineering, Google announced “We are adding more Indian languages to Discover—a Google feed that gives Indians updates on the stories they care about. These include Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, and Malayalam with Oriya, Urdu and Punjabi to follow soon.” Continuing its effort to bridge the learning & reading gap in India, Google expanded Bolo, a speech-based app that helps children learn to read, to five new Indian languages -- Bangla, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu, and expanding our content pool by partnering with publishers like Chotta Bheem and Katha Kids. Sapna Chadha, Director of Marketing, Southeast Asia & India, Google said, “Bolo has already helped 800,000 young Indians read stories more than three million times, and speak half a billion words. In partnership with NGOs like Saajha, the Kaivalya Education Foundation, Pratham Education Foundation, Room to Read, and working together with state governments and schools, our aim is to make Bolo reach even more children across the country.” Sapna also said, “Google Lens--which allows people to search for information, ask questions and translate text by pointing their phone’s camera at things they’re interested in, will now be available in Tamil, Telugu and Marathi.” Highlighting Google Pay’s contribution in supporting India’s digital payments ecosystem, and building platforms for economic opportunity Ambarish Kenghe, Director, Product Management, Google Pay said, “The biggest story in India’s booming internet economy has been the rise of digital payments. With BHIM UPI crossing 900 million payments last month, India is setting the global standard on how to digitise payments. In the last 12 months alone, Google Pay has grown 3X to reach to 67 million monthly active users, driving transactions worth over $110Bn on an annualized basis, with hundreds of thousands of offline and online merchants.” To further support the growth of digital payments, Kenghe announced the launch of the Spot platform on Google Pay that enables merchants to create branded commercial experiences that help bridge the offline and online worlds. As part of the early access program, Google Pay users will already be able to use Spot of popular services like UrbanClap, Goibibo, MakeMyTrip, RedBus, Eat.Fit and Oven Story. In addition, Google Pay also announced the launch of tokenized cards for debit and credit card holders--a secure way of paying for things using a digital token on your phone rather than your actual card number. Tokenized cards on Google Pay will be rolling out in the next few weeks with Visa cards for HDFC, Axis, Kotak and Standard Chartered banks, and support to cover Mastercard and Rupay and more banks in the coming months. Talking about Google Pay’s plans to rapidly expand the adoption of digital payments by merchants, Kenghe, said, “The vast majority of India’s over 60 million small businesses are still not benefiting from the growing digital economy. We’re launching a new app called Google Pay for Business: a free and easy way for small and medium-sized merchants to enable digital payments without the hassle of time-consuming onboarding and verification process. We hope these initiatives will help merchants adopt digital payments with more confidence, and help contribute to the long term growth of online financial services for the benefit of every Indian.” Enabling economic opportunities for every Indian also means helping people prepare for jobs and connecting them with the right opportunities. Caesar Sengupta, Vice-President, Next Billion Users Initiative and Payments announced a new Jobs effort focusing on entry-level jobs that are not easily discoverable online. He said, “Jobs will be available as a Spot on Google Pay to help job seekers find and prepare for entry-level positions that fit their needs. It uses machine learning to recommend jobs and training content to help these users prepare for interviews and learn new skills. Jobs also makes it easy for them to apply, schedule interviews and engage directly with potential employers.” Caesar further announced a partnership with the National Skills Development Corporation for their Skill India program. As part of this collaboration, Skill India students will be offered a seamless way to get started with Jobs and find employment opportunities. Job Spot is being introduced with 24 early partners like 24Seven and Healthkart in retail, Swiggy, Zomato and Dunzo in delivery and logistics, and Fabhotels in hospitality, with more sectors and partners to be announced in the coming weeks. Speaking at the event, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Honourable Minister of Communications and Electronics and Information Technology, Law and Justice, Government of India, said “Digital India was designed to ensure digital inclusion. Today I wish to compliment Google for launching so many new products contributing to this goal with due regard to safety and security. I don't have a slightest doubt that Google has a crucial role in helping India achieve its goal of a trillion dollar digital economy.”  Read the full article

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INTERVIEW Levi Strauss & Co:'the 140-year-old startup'

Seth Ellison, executive VP and president, Europe, Levi Strauss & Co, spoke to Emma Herrod about how digital and focusing on customers has helped to turn around a sleeping giant

  In March 2019, Levi Strauss & Co returned to the stock market in an IPO which saw the jeans brand raise more than $600m (£477m) and boosting its share value by 30%.

  The move follows a major transformation of the business from its foundations through to its direct-to-consumer channels. It refocused on its profitable core range of jeans for men in the key markets of the US, France, Germany, Mexico and the UK, while expanding in other regions and product categories including tops and womenswear. At the same time, Levi Strauss & Co focused its sights on becoming a leading omnichannel retailer and achieving operational excellence in terms of systems and processes.

  Its transformation has been carried out under the leadership of Chip Bergh, who the then family owned business brought in as CEO in 2011 following years of declining sales. Seth Ellison, executive VP and president, Europe, Levi Strauss & Co, explains that the company had been in decline for 20 years, was almost insolvent and weighed down by $2bn in debt and had too much inventory. By 1996, he says, “the wheels came off the car”.

  Marketing budgets were slashed just as new brands such as 7 For All Mankind were entering the jeans market. “We were being crushed [in the middle] by competitors” as fast fashion companies such as Zara were “coming up from the bottom” while premium brands were moving over the top. Between 1996 and 2001, Levi Strauss sales plummeted from $7.1bn (£5.46bn) to $4.1bn (£3.15bn).

  The first thing the business had to do under Bergh was “to wake up the sleeping giant”. The initial stage of this was to put the leadership team in place and have everyone working to a common strategy, explains Ellison. From here, the brand went after quick wins to generate cash by fulfilling the orders it already had and concentrating on its core markets. Internally, processes were put in place to ensure that everyone was talking to each other across departments as “execution was critical”. It had to concentrate on things that would make a difference immediately and to work as if it was going to be out of business the next day.

  Instead of using market volatility as an excuse not to do things – which was inherent in the business at the time, according to Ellison – the leadership team had to turn the firm around and get it to understand that this was to become the norm. Instead of trying to control what couldn’t be altered, it focused on what could be controlled in order to grab market share. “We went on the offensive instead of reacting to everyone else,” he says.

  From this point, the strategy pivoted to investing in new areas, predominantly womenswear and digital. Levi Strauss also concentrated on three consumer segments: customers who had stayed loyal to the brand; those who had left; and a whole generation which Ellison says had missed out on – and never been targeted by – the brand.

  Until this point, Levi Strauss had been marketing to women in the same way as men, but Ellison says that once it “started to approach the consumer with a razor sharp focus, things started to move again”.

  From being squeezed at the top and the bottom and being told that there was no place in the middle, the brand discovered that this wasn’t true. “We had to be cooler than the ones at the top and understand price elasticity better than those at the bottom to become the first brand of choice,” explains Ellison.

  It realigned the brand to be at the “centre of culture”, working with iconic people such as sports personalities, musicians and bloggers. Products and marketing were introduced that “built bridges” to its core target groups. These included denim shorts for people going to festivals and t-shirts for customers wanting to wear the company’s logo.

  “Denim was our starting game,” he says, and this also allowed the firm to work across customers’ wardrobes as long as it kept to the brand values and authenticity. “To be Levi Strauss we have to be rock and roll on the outside but function like a Swiss watch on the inside,” he adds. “Delivering on your promises is critical,” and this has to be aligned with the customer experience and not just focused on improving processes.

  The company has seen a phenomenal turnaround since its business transformation, with revenues up by 14% last year, a rate of growth which the company hasn’t seen in more than 25 years. “Fans have come back to the brand in droves,” says Ellison, adding that “it wasn’t by accident”.

  Levi Strauss & Co in 2019

Today, Levi Strauss operates through 832 of its own stores along with online channels through which it sells direct to consumers from Levi sites and marketplaces, including Zalando, and a wholesale business which sells through the physical stores and online channels of its retail partners.

  It is now working on joining up its distribution channels in a way that improves the experience for customers and is helping to change the relationship from a purely transactional one. As part of this, it has also instigated a test and learn culture within the business to ensure that it keeps moving forward as customer behaviour changes.

  “We have this giant ecosystem of distribution to deal with and we are really stepping back and asking, ‘How can we create the best possible experience linking those points of distribution?’.” This, Ellison believes, is where the company’s real competitive advantage lies.

  Levi Strauss is linking the channels through loyalty, CRM programmes, an AI-powered chat bot and personalisation (which it calls Know Me), and further linking them to product customisation through tailor shops and the experience in the Print Bars and its FLX laser technology, which enables the brand to create almost any look on denim.

  Ellison says stores, online, customisation and personalised experiences “are our future”. So the brand is looking at every link in its distribution chain and asking: “What’s our ability to continue to elevate it?” He adds that, “as the customer moves from a transactional to an experiential relationship, and with customers wanting to shop 24/7, how the business leverages technology has to be part of the equation.

  “Quality is starting to become more important than quantity,” he says of the distribution points. He also says the company does not know yet what the future of its distribution channels will look like. It is looking at every sales channel and “hoping that we can turn it into an experience”. He adds that the parts that are “entirely transactional will not be part of the future”.

  Ellison says Levi Strauss understands that its customers “also want to be with brands that have authenticity and values”. He believes that with its heritage of “profits through principles”, the firm can remain a values-led business and still make money.

  The fact that things are moving so much faster and technology has changed everything excites him. Besides the speed, there’s the idea that consumers are brands; they can share ideas and have the ability and desire to give feedback whenever they want to. “It flattens the relationship between the top of your business and the consumers.”

  Every person in the organisation becomes more important because they are part of that experience and they have responsibility, he explains. An employee may not have marketing and consumer in their title but – regardless of their role – they need to be thinking about what they are doing to build the brand and create a better experience for consumers.

  Measuring cross-channel

The impact of these changes is being measured through conversion rates, footfall and how it compares to the rest of the street, the types of consumers buying and cross-channel CRM. In turn, this is helping the brand to measure where it is connecting most closely with consumers. Visual inspections show how much the business is moving forward with its stores. Each one is measured on the experience, whether it’s something that the company can be proud of and whether it resonates with consumers or is “simply trying to draw dollars”.

New stores and concepts have been opened, from a flagship store in New York through to a made-to-measure couture business and tailor shops customising jeans for customers. Different format stores are enabling it to test and learn with different customer groups and distribution channels, such as the GenZ store which it opened with a franchisee in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Portugal is becoming a proving ground for its omnichannel innovations in Europe and standalone womenswear stores are being opened by a franchisee in the country. Ellison explains that in some countries half of the company’s sales are now in womenswear.

The rollout of mobile devices in stores, on which associates can place online orders for customers, is helping to bring the channels together as well as creating “a whole new set of metrics” around how offline traffic is driving online conversion. A future launch of ship-from-store will add to the online-to-offline metrics.

Ellison points out that omnichannel goes deeper than that, though, since fit is such a large part of the product equation. This has led to Levi Strauss using virtual stylists online to interact with shoppers, and assessing the dressing room experience in store and on-floor navigation. “There are a lot of moving parts right now and that is both the challenge as well as the exciting part of it at the moment, and there are so many different ways in which we can elevate the experience,” he says.

Levi Strauss is keen on the fail-fast culture adopted by other companies working in digital and omnichannel retailing. The test and learn philosophy extends to store formats, technology and new consumer groups, and the business has started to celebrate failure. “This is something that we are really trying to embrace,” he says, explaining how internally the denim brand is known as the “140-year-old start-up” (The company is older having been founded in 1853 as a dry goods business.)

Many of the print bars and fitting room mirrors showing slow-motion imagery so the shopper can see themselves from every angle have been developed in this way. “If you truly want to move with the consumer as fast as they are moving, you have to build a testing culture within your business. You can’t be afraid to fail. And that’s something that we are getting used to, we’ve been a business culture getting excited over the wins that we’ve had over the last 6 or 7 years,” Ellison says, adding that “failure tells you that you are pushing the boundaries”.

This cultural change started at the top and business leaders are cross-trained so that each spends a lot of time connecting with other areas of the business. Ellison explains that you need a team that’s not worried about who gets the revenue as there’s a lot of shared profit pools and connected experiences. Matrix working groups and collaboration works across parts of the business as well as across geographies.

Levi Strauss also tries to blend and amplify the best experiences for all consumers, customers, employees and partners, including franchisees and licensees.

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Smartwatch Market Top Key Players – Apple Inc., Google Inc., Garmin, Fitbit, Motorola, Sony Corporation, Samsung Electronics

Smartwatch is a portable wearable device that is used to track various everyday activities such as steps covered in a day, calories burnt, heart rate, and others. Smartwatch is similar to a mobile phone device with a touchscreen display and consists of various apps through which an individual can access his mobile phone. Increase in adoption of smartphone along with fast internet connectivity is the key driver for the growth of the global smartwatch market. As of now, the market is driven by leading tech companies such as Xiaomi, Samsung, Apple, Google, and others.

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The standalone segment accounts for the highest market share in the global smartwatch market due to features such as wireless operations, sim card acceptance, and others. Growth in demand for wireless fitness & sports devices, increase in health awareness among the consumer, and entrance of large number of players, drive the growth of the market.

The global smartwatch market is segmented based on product, application, operating system, and region. Based on product, the market is categorized into extension, standalone, and classical. Based on application, it is divided into personal assistance, wellness, healthcare, sports, and others. Based on operating system, the market is categorized as watchOS, android, RTOS, Tizen, and others. Based on region, it is analyzed across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and LAMEA.

The major players operating in the global smartwatch market are Apple Inc., Google Inc., Garmin, Fitbit, Motorola, Sony Corporation, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, and Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.

These players have adopted various growth strategies, such as mergers, acquisitions, collaborations, and partnerships, to strengthen their market reach and retain their position in the market.

Key Benefits for Global Smartwatch Market:

- This study presents the analytical depiction of the global smartwatch market along with the current trends and future estimations to determine the imminent investment pockets.

- The report presents information regarding the key drivers, restraints, and opportunities.

- The current market is quantitatively analyzed from 2017 to 2025 to highlight the financial competency of the market.

- Porter’s five forces analysis illustrates the potency of the buyers and suppliers in the market.

Global Smartwatch Market Segmentations:

By Product

- Extension

- Standalone

- Classical

By Application

- Personal Assistance

- Wellness

- Healthcare

- Sports

- Others

By Operating System

- WatchOS

- Android

- RTOS

- Tizen

- Others

By Region

North America

- U.S.

- Canada

- Mexico

Europe

- UK

- Germany

- France

- Italy

- Rest of Europe

Asia-Pacific

- China

- India

- Japan

- Australia

- Rest of Asia-Pacific

LAMEA

- Latin America

- Middle East

- Africa

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  Table of Content

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1. REPORT DESCRIPTION

1.2. KEY BENEFITS FOR STAKEHOLDERS

1.3. KEY MARKET SEGMENTS

1.4. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

1.4.1. Primary research

1.4.2. Secondary research

1.4.3. Analyst tools and models

 CHAPTER 2: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

2.1. CXO PERSPECTIVE

CHAPTER 3: MARKET OVERVIEW

3.1. MARKET DEFINITION AND SCOPE

3.2. KEY FINDINGS

3.2.1. Top impacting factors

3.2.2. Top investment pockets

3.2.3. Top winning strategies

3.3. PORTERS FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS

3.4. MARKET SHARE, 2017

3.5. MARKET DYNAMICS

3.5.1. Drivers

3.5.1.1. Growth in demand for wireless fitness & sports devices

3.5.1.2. Increase in health awareness among the consumers

3.5.1.3. Entrance of large number of players

3.5.2. Restraint

3.5.2.1. High initial cost

3.5.3. Opportunity

3.5.3.1. Rise in investment on building connected ecosystem

CHAPTER 4: GLOBALSMARTWATCH, BY PRODUCT

4.1. OVERVIEW

4.2. EXTENSION

4.2.1. Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities

4.2.2. Market size and forecast, by region

4.2.3. Market analysis by country

4.3. STANDALONE

4.3.1. Key market trends, growth factors, and opportunities

4.3.2. Market size and forecast, by region

4.3.3. Market analysis by country

4.4. CLASSICAL

4.4.1. Key market trends, growth factors, and opportunities

4.4.2. Market size and forecast, by region

4.4.3. Market analysis by country

CHAPTER 5: SMARTWATCH MARKET, BY APPLICATION

5.1. OVERVIEW

5.2. PERSONAL ASSISTANCE

5.2.1. Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities

5.2.2. Market size and forecast, by region

5.2.3. Market analysis by country

5.3. WELLNESS

5.3.1. Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities

5.3.2. Market size and forecast, by region

5.3.3. Market analysis by country

5.4. HEALTHCARE

5.4.1. Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities

5.4.2. Market size and forecast, by region

5.4.3. Market analysis by country

5.5. SPORTS

5.5.1. Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities

5.5.2. Market size and forecast, by region

5.5.3. Market analysis by country

5.6. OTHERS

5.6.1. Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities

5.6.2. Market size and forecast, by region

5.6.3. Market analysis by country

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