TREND REPORTS
A Guide To Winning In Store In 2021
[Business]
2020/12/17 09:06
This year brought lockdowns, restricted movement and social distancing to the lives of consumers like never before. FMCG retailers and manufacturers also had to quickly adapt to supply chain challenges, government regulations and changes in consumers’ priorities. Although the long-tail impact of economic slowdown will continue into 2021, the success of the FMCG industry depends on how retailer...
ChiliSleep Raises $37M and Merges with Ebb Therapeutics
[Investing]
2020/12/17 09:05
Kryo, the company behind the ChiliSleep brand, is announcing that it has merged with another sleep technology company, Ebb Therapeutics, and also raised $37 million in new funding led by Ebb’s biggest investor, KKR.Founded in 2007, Kryo/ChiliSleep’s products include the chiliPAD, a device designed to improve sleep by adjusting the temperature of your bed. Co-founder and CEO Tara Youngblood to...
Home Antibody Test Kit – A New Way of Mass Screening Tests
[Design]
2020/12/17 09:04
TESTEN? TESTEN! by Yue Zhao adopts new technology that uses high-velocity microneedles and slight vacuum pressure to collect just few drops of your blood from forearm’s capillary. During a pandemic, one of medical tools we need is antibody test kit. TESTEN? TESTEN! is a concept home antibody test kit that offers a new way of mass screening tests, everyone can do it at the comfort of their home...
(Infographic) Cybersecurity for The Post-Covid Economy
[Business]
2020/12/17 09:03
In correlation to cybersecurity, coronavirus has taught us that a cyberattack can spread at 9x the rate of COVID-19, and lie dormant for months while it spreads, the economic impact of a digital shutdown could be immense, and recovering from digital destruction could be very challengingIn the near future, we could see cyberpandemics that spread faster and further than a biological virus, with a...
(PDF) HBS & BCG - Building the On-Demand Workforce
[Business]
2020/12/16 09:10
This article highlights our joint findings with Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work in Building the On-Demand Workforce.Many companies are rethinking their approach to talent and beginning to rely on highly skilled freelancers and the ever-growing gig economy.The expansion of remote work and a dynamic need for new capabilities have given way to an on-demand talent...
Denmark’s Wind-Powered Vertical Farm Will Produce 1K Tons of Greens a Year
[Business]
2020/12/16 09:09
The farm will adopt hydroponics tech to grow foods with little water and not require the use of any pesticides.A new vertical indoor farm being developed on the outskirts of Copenhagen will soon produce 1,000 metric tons of greens a year locally.Developed in a collaboration between Danish startup Nordic Harvest and Taiwanese tech company YesHealth Group, the farm will allow crops to grow indoor...
Global Recession 2020 : When Will The Economy Recover?
[Investing]
2020/12/16 09:08
With 2020 nearly behind us, many are eagerly looking ahead to what 2021 will bring. COVID-19 vaccinations have begun, and hope is on the horizon for a stronger economy going forward..The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) projects that after a 4.2% drop this year, the global economy will reach pre-pandemic levels in 2021. This animation, which uses data from the OECD,...
Nēsos Closes $16.5M To Develop Rheumatoid Arthritis Earbud
[Investing]
2020/12/16 09:07
Nēsos launched out of stealth Thursday and is poised to commercialize a new method for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. It raised $16.5 million in funding, led by Mayfield Fund, to continue its clinical trials.The neuroscience startup was co-founded in 2017 by Konstantinos Alataris, who previously founded and led Nevro (NYSE: NVRO), a company developing pain treatments. Nēsos is creatin...
Predicting the Online Shopper Shifts Driving E-commerce Momentum
[Consumer]
2020/12/16 09:06
One of the clear outcomes of changing consumer behaviors through the months of COVID-19 this year has been a gravity shift to online grocery shopping. Lockdowns drove many shoppers’ heightened demand for the online channel, but they also drove new, first-time online buyers. And those buyers have kept their nascent online habits.Recent findings from Nielsen’s global e-commerce syndicated study...
