Vanguard leads the way as industry prepares to shatter annual record with months to goU.S. money managers couldn’t stop the march toward exchange-traded funds, so they decided to join it instead. Now it’s more like a stampede.ETFs are on the brink of luring more money in seven months than in any calendar year on record. At $488.5 billion and counting, they’ll likely break the $497 billion fu...

The new smartwatch system from Rockley—which counts Apple as its biggest customer—is equipped with infrared spectrophotometers for continuous measurement of body temperature, blood pressure, alcohol levels, glucose and more.Smartwatches are about to get a whole lot smarter. Rockley Photonics has pulled back the curtain on a health monitoring platform equipped with high-tech sensors to continu...

The need for more affordable housing has never been more urgent as a shortage in the U.S. housing market persists. Investors include Norwest, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman and former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs.Startups attempting to help address the shortage in a variety of ways abound. One such startup, Abodu, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Prev...

Maximizing the value of digital transformations has new urgency after the crisis. Our recent study shows that digitally mature companies proved the most resilient during the pandemic. After taking a big hit at the start of the crisis, their valuations grew, on average, to 23% above precrisis levels within six months. To be competitive and resilient in the future, companies need to learn how to...

We’ve all either missed a connecting flight or even our first one and have had to find that somewhat (hardly at all) comfortable spot in the airport where we could kill a few hours before our rescheduled flight. If you haven’t been there–consider this a cautionary tale. While being stuck in an airport is never comfortable, designer KAI XIA developed a Sleep Experience Center, a snoozy oasis...

The pandemic has changed innumerable dimensions of our lives – no contact socializing being one. The term ‘untact’ is a combination of the prefix ‘un’ and the word ‘contact’. Untact has been around as a buzzword since 2017, but now it has gone mainstream courtesy of the COVID-19 stricken world. It portrays the way of doing things without direct contact – home deliveries of products bein...

Signs of a Recovery: Mobile App Usage Reveals Which Sectors are Rebounding and Which Mobile Habits Are Here to StayWe reviewed the latest trends in mobile app data and consumer behavior to identify which markets and sectors are recovering from the pandemic.As some markets begin opening back up, we’ve seen early indications of industries on the road to recovery. We’ve also seen signals on what...

The two world-renowned architecture practices UNStudio and BIG have invested a new virtual workspace hosted in the cloud, which is a virtual design and review platform for architects, designers and developers. The new project, called SpaceForm, promises to drastically reduce costs of project development by offering users the ability to present 3D models with up to 100 co-workers in real-time, s...

Robotics is a diverse sector with many moving parts, and what its future will look like is a complex question. To offer insight, BCG did a deep dive into the robotics industry and the potential for old and new players to grow over the next decade. Our very concise conclusion: robotics has significant upside potential. But a more-nuanced analysis is that to succeed, established companies manufac...