In June of 1999, Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins invested $25 million into an early-stage company developing a new search engine called Google, paving the way for a revolution in how knowledge online was organized and shared.Now, Sequoia Capital is placing another bet on a different kind of search engine, one for physical objects in three dimensions, just as the introduction of three-dimens...

In what could have been a relatively quiet post-inauguration week, a breathtaking story of David vs. Goliath played out on the world stage, turning financial markets upside down and wreaking havoc on Wall Street.But let’s start from the beginning. Earlier this month, activist investor Ryan Cohen, founder of Chewy.com, joined the board of video game retailer GameStop along with two former Chewy...

While Cassandra Daily has previously reported on waterless beauty, there’s another industry trend forming in the other direction, calling for more H2O. To wit, The New York Times called out hydration as the “latest lucrative frontier of the wellness boom.” But we’re not talking about just any plain old water: H2O is getting a modern remix, featuring in functional products like liquidized mi...

The pivot: Accelerated migration to remote and digital. New digital behaviors are becoming the next normal.Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the way companies buy from and sell to each other now looks very different than it used to—perhaps permanently. To thrive in the next normal, B2B companies will need to continue adapting to the new economic reality.To understand how large the challenge is and a...

British architecture and design firm Heatherwick Studio has unveiled visuals of a pair of residential skyscrapers planned for Vancouver, Canada.The high-rise buildings will be located on Alberni Street in Vancouver's West End neighbourhood.Renderings show two irregular-shaped towers studded with angled balconies that form a bottleneck towards the base and then open up to a shared podium."The co...

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A new study by BCG GAMMA, the BCG Henderson Institute, and the MIT Sloan Management Review suggests that in order to see significant financial returns, organizations need a multidimensional, complex relationship with AI—one that involves several methods of learning and different modes of interaction.Businesses everywhere are recognizing the power of AI to improve processes, meet customer needs...

The Apple Watch may be able to detect if a wearer has coronavirus days before they are diagnosed or symptoms appear, a new body of research shows.IIn some cases, wearable devices like Apple Watch or Fitbit devices can predict a COVID-19 infection even before a user becomes symptomatic or the virus is detectable by standard tests, according to studies from a number of leading medical institution...

K Health, the Israeli AI-powered telemedicine health platform, announced that it has raised $132 million in a Series E funding round.GGV Capital, Valor Equity Partners, and the Kaiser Permanente pension fund led the round. They were joined by LTS Ventures, Atreides Ventures, 14W, Max Ventures, PICO Partners, Marcy Venture Partners, Primary Ventures, and BoxGroup.Valor Equity Partners’ founder...