TREND REPORTS
(PDF) Netflix's Earning Report - Blows Away New Subscriber Expectations
[Investing]
2020/04/22 09:10
Netflix reported its Q1 2020 earnings after the bell on Tuesday. The company showed a huge uptick in new subscribers, which it attributed to people staying at home due to the coronavirus pandemic.Netflix delivered a big jump in subscribers, but the stock bounced around in immediate reaction to the earnings release. It was initially up 10% before settling to less than a 1% gain in after-hours tr...
(Video) Machine Learning Could Check If You’re Social Distancing Properly at Work
[Tech]
2020/04/22 09:09
Andrew Ng’s startup Landing AI has created a new workplace monitoring tool that issues an alert when anyone is less than the desired distance from a colleague.Six feet apart: On Thursday, the startup released a blog post with a new demo video showing off a new social distancing detector. On the left is a feed of people walking around on the street. On the right, a bird’s-eye diagram represent...
Deloitte - The New CIO : Business-Savvy Technologist
[Business]
2020/04/22 09:08
IT’s role in the organization is changing rapidly—and CEOs are embracing the change.CEOs not only trust technology leaders to be a strategic business partner and to drive organizational change through technology—they are clamoring for tech executives to do so. The opportunities for forward-looking tech executives are vast, as are the perils for those who don’t answer the call to be agents...
Skincare Products Counter The Harmful Effects of Blue Light Exposure
[Product]
2020/04/22 09:07
With much of the world under Covid-19 quarantine, time spent on screens is surging. While it’s nice to be plugged in, tech-savvy youth are beginning to recognize the negative beauty-centric effects of all this screen time, including pigmentation, inflammation, and photo-aging caused by exposure to blue light (a high-energy, short wavelength light emitted by electronics). Some beauty brands are...
COVID-19 Impacting Food Purchasing Dynamics
[Investing]
2020/04/22 09:06
Wall Street Journal writer Kirk Maltais reported this week that, “Consumers’ rush to buy groceries is fueling a rally in orange-juice prices, making the usually sedate asset the best-performing commodity in the first quarter of 2020.“Grocery-Store Rush Spurs Big Gains in Sleepy Orange-Juice Futures,” by Kirk Maltais. The Wall Street Journal (March 31, 2020).“The price of frozen orange-juic...
London’s Moshi Raises $12M To Grow Its Kids’ Audio Sleep & Mindfulness App
[Investing]
2020/04/22 09:05
One company is out to ease some of that stress. London-based Moshi: Sleep and Mindfulness has just raised a $12 million Series B round to help it achieve its mission “to improve the health and happiness of a billion families by helping kids relax and sleep” with its audio sleep and mindfulness app.Moshi was born out of Mind Candy which was created by Michael Acton Smith, one of the co-founder...
Here’s How Plane Seating Could Look After Coronavirus
[Design]
2020/04/22 09:04
Shoulder-to-shoulder might be on its way out, but at a cost.As brutal and unrelenting as the coronavirus pandemic is, we may see a silver lining emerge as products and services are developed to help people cope with a new, more restrictive way of life. Improvements in the health and safety of airline passengers will surely come about as people try to get back to normal, but not all changes are...
(Infographic) Digital Therapeutics : Software-Powered Medicine
[Business]
2020/04/22 09:03
The market for digital therapeutics is assumed to be worth $7.8 billion by 2025. NursingSchoolHub explains how Digital Therapeutics works in the infographic below. Is DTx the next frontier in medicine?Infographic : https://infographicjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/DigitalTherapies.png[NursingSchoolHub]
(PDF) Mary Meeker's Coronavirus Trends Report
[Business]
2020/04/21 09:10
Bond Capital, a Silicon Valley VC firm whose portfolio companies include Slack and Uber, told its investors this morning via email that the coronavirus' high-speed spread and impact has similarities to the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906.Why it matters: Bond's best-known partner, Mary Meeker, is a former bank analyst renowned for her annual Internet Trends Report, which many invest...
