Contactless Card, Infrastructure Rollouts Spurring Mobile Growth
A new report from Juniper Research has found that the number of consumers making contactless payments via their mobile handsets would reach 300 million globally by 2017, up from just over 110 million last year.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Conductive Ink Market Report 2014-2018 - Silver Flake & Nanoparticle, Copper Flake & Nanoparticle, Carbon/Graphene, CNT, Dielectric, Polymer" report to their offering.

According to a new report published by Transparency Market Research "Potassium Chloride Market for Fertilizers, Pharmaceuticals, Industrial and Other Applications - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013 - 2019" the global demand for potassium chloride was valued at USD 21.67 billion in 2012 and is expected to reach USD 32.87 billion in 2019, growing at a CAGR of 10.8% from 2013 to 2019. In terms of volume, the global demand for potassium chloride was 51,000.0 kilo tons in 2012.

Growth of the fertilizer industry is expected to be one of the major factors driving the demand for potassium chloride over the next few years.

Year-to-date sales remain well ahead of last year's pace; WSTS forecast projects growth of 6.5 percent in 2014 and 3.3 percent in 2015

Future Potential for Top Companies in Food, Beverage, Personal Care & Healthcare

ReportsnReports.com adds Level Sensors Market Focus on Technologies [Contact Type (Magnetostrictive, Vibratory probe, Hydrostatic, Magnetic float) and Non Contact Type (Ultrasonic, Radar, Optical, Laser)], Applications and Geography - Global Trends & Forecast to 2013 - 2020 to its store.

-- 76% of entrepreneurs plan to hire this year, compared with 31% of CEOs running large corporates

-- Technology is driving global job creation and opening up talent pool

-- Entrepreneurs in EMEIA most confident and likely to hire from abroad

Electronic Home Video Over-the-Top and Digital Music Streaming See Fastest Growth in Consumer Spending

As the entertainment & media (E&M) industry continues its digital shift, advertising growth is outpacing consumer spending, according to PwC's annual Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2014-2018 – an in-depth five-year outlook for global consumer spending and advertising revenues directly related to entertainment and media content – released today. Attracting, retaining, and monetizing the digital consumer remains challenging and requires businesses to apply a 'digital mindset' to build the right behaviors to move from a digital strategy to a business strategy fit.

The report "Meat Substitutes Market by Source (Soy, Wheat, Mycoprotein), by Type (Tofu, Tofu-Based Product, Tempeh, TVP, Seitan, Quorn, Others), by Category (Frozen, Refrigerated) - Global Trends & Forecasts to 2019", defines and segments the global Meat Substitutes Market with an analysis and forecasting of the market value of sources, types, and categories of meat substitutes. The report also identifies the driving and restraining factors for the global market with an analysis of trends, opportunities, winning imperatives, and challenges. The market is segmented and values are forecasted on the basis of major regions, such as North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific (APAC), and Rest of the World (ROW) with the key countries covered and forecasted for each region.

LED price for lighting applications have dropped around 3-7 percent in 2Q14. Similarly, backlight-use LED prices have also seen a decline, dipping around 5-10 percent, with direct-type TV backlight-use LEDs decreasing by 13 percent due to fierce market competition, according to the recent price report from LEDinside, the green energy research division of TrendForce.

Prices of high-power and mid-power lighting-use LEDs continue to show a slight decline this quarter. For mid-power 5630, Korean manufacturers represented by Samsung are still adopting price strategy to seize market share. High-power LED price drops were more dramatic, especially in prices for products with higher brightness (120-140lm), which had a drop rate of 7 percent this quarter.

Global LED commercial lighting market penetration rate this year soared, with growth projected to reach 23% by the end of the 2014, according to the latest "2Q14 Silver Member- Commercial Lighting Market" by LEDinside a research division of TrendForce.

Main lighting products in commercial lighting application include LED tubes, spotlights, and bulbs. Europe, North America, and China are the biggest players in this sector and are anticipated to become major markets within the next five years. LED tube market demand was US $2.58 billion in 2013 and will increase substantially to US $8.87 billion by 2018, said LEDinside Associate Manager Joanne Wu. LED tubes have become prominent in the commercial lighting sector, especially in supermarket, office, and underground parking lot where LEDs have been applied extensively. In addition to rapid improvements in design, LED tubes strength in cost/performance (C/P) is also increasing faster compared to other luminaires.

Demand in the China's Distributed PV market continues to increase, which caused manufacturers to come up with solutions in response to the trend. From the 8th SNEC Exhibition, which ended last week, we can see that PV service integration has become the strategic focus for Chinese manufacturers.

"In order to respond to downstream demand growth, manufacturers have aggressively expanded their capacities through varying measures.