AI selects 70% of what Hungryroot’s customers buy: The technology was key to the online grocery and meal delivery company’s 50% growth last year.
Dollar Tree is adding more expensive items to store shelves: The move allows the discount retailer to bring in more name brands, boosting its shopper appeal.
Healthcare providers, young patients meet on TikTok: Physicians are delivering educational content on social media—Gen Zers are taking notice.
Black women are stressed out: Tensions of daily life are magnified by racial discrimination and microaggressions. Black women want more mental health tools designed for their needs.
When patients walk out the door: Healthcare providers have a huge stake in keeping post-surgical patients in their network. Convenience is the key to keeping them.
A decade of shrinking entertainment profits drives the writers’ strike: Legacy media companies have lost their lead to streaming services.
Politicians are using AI for election material: Incidents like creating deepfakes of rival candidates could speed up regulation.
Subscription choices narrow for Netflix's Canadian users: Ad-supported and standard plans remain. Move to scrap basic plan could set stage for action in other markets.
On today's episode, in our "Retail Me This, Retail Me That" segment, we discuss the sizes of different digital marketplaces, what their unique selling points are, and why smaller retailers are building out their own. Then for "Red-Hot Retail," our analysts give us four spicy predictions about the future of digital marketplaces. Join our analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts forecasting analyst Whitney Birdsall and analyst Sky Canaves.
Consumers are shopping around for cheaper insurance deals. Providers that can outcompete on price through stripped-back coverage stand to gain.
Demand for cyber coverage is rapidly growing, but prices rose 50% last year. Cheap and simple coverage should draw substantial interest.
Google’s DeepMind plans to overthrow OpenAI’s ChatGPT dominance: Another wave of AI investment and fresh competition is ahead, led by DeepMind and an open-source free-for-all. GPT-5 is coming.
Big cloud disruption could be ahead over IBM’s $4.6B Apptio takeover: The acquisition will likely trigger a cloud shakeup. There are several barriers to IBM benefiting from the purchase.
Google’s moonshot project Taara is gaining ground globally: Its laser beam internet is getting adopted in India and several other countries. It provides advantages over fiber and satellite options.
Borrowers struggling with inflation and rising interest rates can pay just the interest on their loans for up to six months—with no implications.
Consumers want banks to help them track their environmental impact. But there are still some challenges in developing such offerings.
An unknown number of US banking customers have had their data compromised in a cyber attack on a software company that provides products to FIs.
The case for Reddit as a search engine: A user protest is a reminder that Reddit has a huge opportunity in search advertising that it’s beginning to tap into.
Ad industry spending is crawling out of a dark period: The US ad market grew 2.5% in May, the first increase in 11 months.