The e-commerce retail market is set for massive growth: Statista reports that e-commerce retail purchases will rise to 22 percent of worldwide retail purchases in 2023 – up from 18.1 MORE

  According to a recent study by JLL,  coworking spaces at retail properties are predicted to grow at an annual rate of 25% through 2023.  Coworking has reached the size and scale where it's starting to have second order impacts on the broader real estate industry.    Farthest along is coworking's impact on office design. As anyone who's recently visited a newly designed corporate office knows, they look a lot like coworking spaces.  MORE

The company said last fall that it would launch 20 new electric cars by 2023 and is investing heavily to make this happen.  GM recently announced a restructuring plan that includes laying off about 14,000 employees and halting production at five of its North American auto plants. The announcement got a lot of attention, most of it rightly focused on the impact on workers and what it might mean for the broader economy.  MORE

alone, and there will be twice that many by 2023. It’s Getting More Affordable Every Year. With the looming threat of climate change and its 11-year deadline , it seems like everyone is talking about renewable energy and what we can do with it. Renewable energy is more than a buzzword these days — it’s a fully formed technology that is ready and waiting for companies to take advantage of everything it has to offer. MORE

Most of these companies say public testing of their eVTOLs will happen in the 2019 to 2023 timeframe. The Barron's Penta article  The Next Wave in Flight: Flying Vehicles You Can Summon With Your Phone covers eVTOLs, which are electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles.    As the article points out, electric flying vehicles have a number of major advantages over traditional helicopters. MORE

by the year 2023. Android vs iOS – which is the best platform to pick for your first app development? This is a question that is here to stay. After all, developers around the world continue to craft top of the line apps. MORE

  According to the article, the global pet care industry is expected to grow to $164 billion by 2023 – a 31% increase from 2018.  Petcare Everywhere , from J. Walter Thompson Intelligence, covers how brands are responding to millennials increasingly choosing pets over kids. Key quote: "Traditional life-stage choices are shifting, seeing millennials waiting longer to have children – and choosing pets with increasing fervor. MORE

These intruders are pretty powerful and according to a study by Juniper Research , the cybercriminals will steal more than 33 billion data records in the year 2023. ‘Dog is man’s best friend’, said a man who doesn’t own a smartphone. MORE

Experts have predicted the market for XR to reach $18 billion by 2023. Extended reality (XR) meshes all immersive technologies together, including virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR). MORE