Black Sheep Foods, a San Francisco, CA-based foodtech company, raised $12.03M in Series A funding. The round was led by Unovis, alongside Bessemer Venture Partners, AgFunder, and KBW Ventures.The company, which has raised $18.05 Million since founding in 2019, intends to use the funds to scale up production for its debut lamb made from plants for national distribution.Led by CEO Sunny Kumar, Bl...

To protect against fraud and recapture value at checkout, retailers are turning to third-party solutions.Meeting growth expectations has proven challenging for retailers, and rising fraud and abuse rates make it more difficult to balance growth and risk management.The checkout process is an often overlooked but vitally important area to capture value, but few retailers have the capabilities to...

Automakers, airlines, and oil companies love using nature imagery in their advertisements. Now we have a new term to describe this manipulative practice.This past summer, Mercedes-Benz rolled out an ad called “Nature or Nothing.” In it, the luxury car brand depicted a random montage of nature-related imagery—the veins of a leaf, a gooey honeycomb cell, the folds between rose petals—that ser...

Fox Sports finds that no matter the audience's age, they have more friends and are interested in the wider world. Older fans who remain avid about sports are twice as likely than non-fans to be interested in international news.Fox’s Thanksgiving Day New York Giants vs. Dallas Cowboys NFL game averaged 42 million viewers, breaking a TV record set in 1990.In addition to its eye-popping NFL ratin...

In theory, the TouchSense Remote sounds like a brilliant idea. It could work with practically any TV or set-top box, replacing the need for multiple remote controls, and giving you one device with one interface that’s easy to understand and master. The dynamic touchscreen surface can easily transform to display the UI of any streaming service (in any language too), giving you the ability to mo...

Art and design collective MSCHF has created an ATM that shows a leaderboard of users' current account balances, which was on display during Miami Art Week.The piece – shown at the Perrotin gallery's booth at Art Basel in Miami – consisted of a standard functional ATM with a screen above that depicts the balance in the user's checking account.In addition to the account information, the screen...

China FMCG: Still Volatile, But with Signs of Hope.This is the eleventh consecutive year that we have tracked the shopping behaviors of Chinese consumers. Our continuing research has given us a valuable long-term view across 106 fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) categories purchased for home consumption in China. As in past years, we analyzed the 26 key categories1 that span the four largest co...

Amazon is giving its drones a smoother ride. The company is creating adjustable fairings that “reduce aerodynamic drag” of its unmanned aerial vehicles by adjusting their position depending on the drone’s flight configuration, giving its pilot more control for a safe landing. Amazon has long had high hopes of bulking up its drone delivery fleet. The company announced plans this summer to beg...

2022 has been eventful, to say the least, and a look at the biggest trending Google searches this year can serve as a reminder for some of the events and situations that have shaped our world over the last 12 months.At the top of the trending new searches was of course Ukraine. The war, started when Russia invaded its sovereign neighbor on February 24, also led to Vladimir Putin being one of th...