Emerging Technology Trends in 2014. Mobile and Cloud companies are doing well and Desktop / PC companies are going down hill. Web based pay as you go services are also winning.

2. Emerging Technologies
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Mobile
 Devices
○ Phones, Tablets, Phablets
 Wearable Smart Accessories
○ Smart Watch, Health Bands, Shoes
 2 in 1 Devices
○ Ubuntu Phone (Linux, Phone)
○ Windows Phone and Windows RT (merging)
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Web
 3D Game engines
○ Unreal tournament in JavaScript
 Most of the applications going Online
○ Online based business applications (Pay as you go)
○ HTML 5 based Mobile Apps (Hybrid)
 Online based Office
○ Office 365
○ Google Docs

3. Emerging Technologies
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Cloud Services
 Servers
○ Azure, Amazon Cloud Services
 Pay as you go Apps / Services
○ Office 365, Salesforce, etc
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3D
 Printers
 3D model selling websites
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Streaming
 Netflix
 Amazon Prime
 Google Play
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Wearable Glass
 Google Glass
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Digital Currency
 Bit Coin
 Mint is planning digital change

4. Emerging Technologies
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Car
 Connected Cars
 SIRI, Sync
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Home Automation
 Connected Apps
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Micro Boards
 Raspberry Pi
 Arduino
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Living Room
 Smart TV
○ Online, Streaming, Web Cam
 PS4, XBOX One
○ Streaming TV, Games, Music, Web Cam
 Media Players

5. Stats
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Holiday Sales 2013 (Nov – Dec)
 Amazon Shipped 36.8 Million items
○ 462 items / sec
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Mobile Traffic 48% online
 28% up from Last Year
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People Spent
 Tablet - $98.61
 Smart Phone - $85.11
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Best selling Tablets
 Amazon Kindle Fire HD
 ASUS Transformer Book
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Facebook Mobile
 As of October 2013 48% users access through Mobile

6. FT 500 Hardware

7. FT 500 Software

8. What’s selling best
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Android / iOS based
 Tablets
 phablets
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Best selling laptop 2013 Holiday Season
 Chrome Book
Black Friday
 Cyber Monday
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9. What’s not selling
Desktop Computers
 Boxing Day
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10. Current Trend
BestBuy, Futrureshop selling furniture
 Canadian Tire selling Milk
 Shoppers Drug Mart selling Digital
Cameras
 Computer Stores becoming Direct
Distributers
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 Canada Computers
 NCIX
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Online shopping increasing (40% in 2013)

11. Online Sales (mostly mobile)
Website should be ready for Mobile
 Shipping
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 People Love FREE SHIPPING
 Faster you ship Faster they will come back
Able to RETURN items without problem
 Advertise
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 Social Recommendation
 Google

12. Technologies Need for eStore
Scalable Servers
 Separate SQL Server from Website Server
 Mobile Friendly Website
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 Bootstrap
 API driven (so you can go mobile)
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Analytics
 Age, Location, Best Seller, Best Hits
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Content Generators
 Cnet Content Generator

13. Online Payment Systems
Online Payment Systems List
 Paypal
 Amazon
 Stripe (I’m using this)
 Authorize.net
 Typical Charge
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 2.9% + 30¢

14. eStore Solutions
OS Commerce
 Shopify
 Custom Website
 Wordpress Based Shopping
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 Instinct
 Shopp

15. Links to see
Mobile Trend
 Mobile Marketing
 2013 Holiday Sales
 2013 Global Company Ranking
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