“Consumer data from the retail app Ibotta shows how our buying habits have changed since the pandemic began. One change is obvious – online shopping was up nearly 79% from a year ago. The data show that Austinites are drinking at home more. Beer sales are up 77%, wine sales up 72% (rosé is the…
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A great technology wave is cresting over America because of the pandemic — and it’s largely a good thing
“The number of Zoom meetings jumped from a pre-Covid 10 million daily-meeting participants in 2019 to a whopping 300 million in April 2020. As of April 21, U.S. and Canadian e-commerce orders have grown by 129% year-over-year, while global online retail orders have achieved an impressive 146% growth. According to a Coresight Research report and…
Yoox Net-a-Porter CEO Federico Marchetti, E-Commerce Pioneer, on the State of Shopping
“The pandemic forced the world to embrace e-commerce more than ever before. As a global business, we saw how the virus was impacting each country…People thought we were already in the internet age, but I think it really has only just begun. There is an Italian motto that I live by: non dormire sugli allori,…
Tracking the Coronavirus With AI
Dr. Kamran Khan discusses how to track Covid-19 with artificial intelligence. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2020-06-30/tracking-the-coronavirus-with-ai-video
“AI Healthcare” Stocks Will Mint The World’s First Trillionaire
“According to tech entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, the world’s first trillionaire won’t be a hedge fund manager, oil baron, or social media tycoon. It will be someone who masters AI. According to CB Insights, $4 billion was invested in private healthcare AI startups last year. And that included 367 deals. That was…