TREND REPORTS
Strava Raises $110M, Touts Growth Rate of 2 Million New Users Per Month in 2020
[Investing]
2020/11/17 09:06
Activity and fitness tracking platform Strava has raised $110 million in new funding, in a Series F round led by TCV and Sequoia, and including participation by Dragoneer group, Madrone Capital Partners, Jackson Square Ventures and Go4it Capital. The funding will be used to propel the development of new features, and expand the company’s reach to cover even more users.Already in 2020, Strava h...
(Infographic) Tech’s Bizarre Beginnings & Lucrative Pivots
[Business]
2020/11/17 09:05
As many as 80-90% of startups fold and those left standing also fail, repeatedly. Rarely does a business take a straight run at success, and that includes the likes of Apple, Facebook, and their fellow tech giants.Product lines can come to a screeching halt. Ideas can be stolen. And, yes, even geniuses like Steve Jobs get forced out. But by embracing uncertainty and making timely pivots, the te...
(Video) Advanced, Broad-band Active Noise Cancellation Now Available in Cars - Silentium
[Tech]
2020/11/17 09:04
Silentium has introduced advanced, broad-band active road noise cancellation to the auto industry for the first time.After several years in development, Jaguar and Land Rover are the first carmakers to integrate Silentium’s ‘Active Acoustics’ software in three of their new vehicles, meaning the technology is now available for car buyers to experience. Active road noise cancellation removes 9...
(Video) Red Dot Award : Design Concept 2020 - Ultra-Thin Air Conditioner
[Design]
2020/11/17 09:03
Ultra-Thin Air Conditioner is a slim, telescopic air-conditioner with an accordion-like panel as a cool air outlet. The panel expands and contracts to change the angle of the airflow exiting. The more the panels expands, the bigger the area of airflow. This accordion structure replaces the traditional swing-flap blades of air-conditioners that usually guide the airflow.In a standby state, the s...
(PDF) Earning Report - Disney’s Fiscal Full Year and Q4 2020 Earnings Results
[Investing]
2020/11/16 09:10
Coronavirus Changes Face of Disney's Business.If Netflix is one of the companies better suited to the special circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic, Disney is certainly at the other end of that spectrum. With theme parks and resorts closed, cruises suspended, and movie theaters shuttered for months, the media and entertainment giant from Burbank, California has been hit on multiple fro...
(Video) Agility Robotics’ Humanoid Digit Robot Helps Itself to The Logistics Market
[Tech]
2020/11/16 09:09
As the pandemic wears on, humanoid robots that can perform general tasks could become increasingly important.They can move heavy objects in warehouses, assist with last-yard deliveries, and potentially be involved in other tasks where low human-to-human contact is preferable for safety reasons.Agility Robotics is one of the companies making these helper robots. The company, which was spun out o...
(PDF) Mckinsey - How Retail Can Adapt Supply Chains to Win in the Next Normal
[Business]
2020/11/16 09:08
Retailers in consumer discretionary categories were already struggling in the US before COVID-19. Better supply-chain management could be critical to their recovery.The US retail sector is facing one of the most challenging times in recent memory. For discretionary retailers, the headwinds are especially strong given considerable uncertainty driven by competitive dynamics, concerns over consume...
(Paper) Google’s SoundFilter AI Separates Any Sound or Voice From Mixed-Audio Recordings
[Tech]
2020/11/16 09:07
Researchers at Google claim to have developed a machine learning model that can separate a sound source from noisy, single-channel audio based on only a short sample of the target source.In a paper, they say their SoundFilter system can be tuned to filter arbitrary sound sources, even those it hasn’t seen during training.The researchers believe a noise-eliminating system like SoundFilter could...
Monthly Funding Recap October 2020: 14 New Unicorns Are Born And Funding Holds Steady
[Investing]
2020/11/16 09:06
Global venture funding in October 2020, the first month of the final quarter of the year, held steady at $23 billion and followed a strong third quarter, according to Crunchbase data. At the same time, 14 new unicorn companies were created last month—the second-highest monthly total so far this year—indicating that despite a raging pandemic and uncertainty around the U.S. presidential electio...
