Tag: covid-19
Hype and hope: Wearables in the covid era
The NBA’s strategy of using luxury wearable devices to detect and prevent COVID-19 among basketball players looks awfully good on paper. It also torments us by both suggesting a techno-silver bullet as well as offering a view on how the rich and famo… Source
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Sonos will lay off 12 percent of its workforce due to COVID-19
Sonos is the latest company to announce layoffs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It plans to eliminate 12 percent of its global headcount and close its New York retail store and six satellite offices. The company outlined these plans in a filing with th… Source
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Recommended Reading: Why is Apple breaking up with Intel?
After 15 years, Apple prepares to break up with IntelDon Clark and Jack Nicas, The New York TimesOne of the big announcements at Monday’s WWDC virtual keynote is expected to be Apple’s long-rumored breakup with Intel. The partnership has equipped Mac… Source
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Gauging growth in the most challenging environment in decades
Michael Whitmire, CPA Contributor Michael Whitmire, CPA, is co-founder and chief executive officer at Los Angeles-based FloQast, Inc., a developer of accounting close management software. Traditionally, measuring business success requires a greater understanding of your company’s go-to-market lifecycle, how customers engage with your product and the macro-dynamics of your market.…
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COVID-19 nearly killed this office furniture startup; turning to home offices may save it
A lot of U.S.companies have had near-death experiences in recent months. Among them is Branch, a 1.5-year-old, venture-backed New York-based startup that sells what it calls “exceptional office furniture, at half the price” — and which nearly went kaput because of the pandemic. After generating roughly $800,000 in revenue in…
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Moderna set to start final-stage trial of its coronavirus vaccine by July
Pharmaceutical company Moderna told Bloomberg on Thursday that it’s on pace to begin the final-stage clinical trial of its vaccine for the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 by July. Moderna was the first company to begin human clinical trials of its vaccine candidate in the U.S., and the last stage…
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