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Wow! Long-term client Carzoos named Most Innovative Company in the world. 😀

There's a new retail shopping centre concept performing at 5x the average incumbent. 

Board shorts made from old bottles and boards made from algae. Surfing leads the way in recycling innovation.

Disruption happens. And disruption happens fast. These two images show the staggering rate at which entire industries can disappear overnight (click to view):

These two images of 5th Avenue, New York City are taken just 13 years apart but they dramatically demonstrate the speed at which industries are disrupted. In a blip, hundreds of years of horse transportation was entirely undone.

How Asos gets a massive 58% of customers to buy on mobile.

The music business is growing again — really growing — and it’s because of streaming.

How long can traditional institutions hold up against fintech start-ups? Disruption threats abound for banks:

Accenture interviewed senior banking executives and found that 72% of respondents feel their banks have a fragmented approach to innovation, and 40% think the time it takes their organisation to deploy new technology is too slow, in some cases providing no net benefit at all.

135 is the new 80 – CRISPR gene technology edits away the things that kill us:

There are many new innovations in health care, but none more exciting than CRISPR technology. Programmable protein allows DNA to be edited, removing cells with diseases like Cystic Fibrosis and Cancer and replacing them with healthy DNA. This technology is not 20 years away, it is already being used with great success in plants and animals.

The first major innovation in chocolate in 80 years may just turn around a troubled industry.