Now is the time for remote monitoring startups to take off: Cadence Health became the newest remote care startup on the block, with $41Mn in fresh funds and a strategic tie-up with LifePoint Health—here’s why now is a better time than any for startups like it to enter the RPM market.
Digital health solutions work better together: Innovaccer added healthcare AI firm Jvion’s prescriptive analytics platform to its suite of cloud-based digital health solutions—we unpack how smaller digital health cos are riding on the coattails of larger ones.
Discord courts brands: Jack in the Box is the latest in a string of brands attracted to the under-the-radar chat platform.
On today's episode, we discuss what brands are doing at the Olympics, when time spent on digital video might equal linear, Google's new privacy timeline, the significance of Square buying Afterpay, why marketers must start thinking in 3D, how to individually achieve “perfect productivity,” and more. Tune in to the discussion with eMarketer director of reports editing Rahul Chadha, analyst Blake Droesch, and principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Paul Verna.
The company claims it approved 85% of recent employee requests to relocate or work remotely. Google’s reversal comes as Big Tech struggles to return to office amid rising delta variant cases, and as new data suggests workers may be willing to switch jobs over remote work.
Nearly half of US adults are dissatisfied with how much they pay for broadband per a new study. Though proposed governed infrastructure will increase access for rural and low-income households, many more Americans are overpaying because of a lack of ISP choice.
Hippo’s public debut continues the SPAC frenzy, with many similar deals likely to follow in the next few years. But will all these SPAC companies be able to find lucrative acquisition targets?
It’s Citibank vs. Afterpay (and Square) in a Rumble Down Under: The bank’s launch of a BNPL product in Australia sets up Citibank against Afterpay, whose pending merger with Square gives the combined company potential as an Australian SMB-focused neobank.
Back to not-so-normal: Marketers may have jumped the gun a little on optimistic “back to normal” ad campaigns, which are starting to look inappropriate as another wave of COVID-19 cases emerges.
Facebook's WhatsApp conundrum: Still struggling to monetize WhatsApp, the tech giant is looking for a way to analyze users' encrypted messages without decrypting them.
The branded content ball starts rolling: WarnerMedia’s new content studio “House of Max” follows other companies like NBCU and Roku, which have started blurring the lines between commercials and TV shows with brand-sponsored and co-created content.
The Spot card’s vast acceptance network could make Citi a formidable player in the BNPL space and threaten business for incumbent players like Afterpay and Klarna.
Amazon trashes wasteful measures in UK: The company's announcement comes just six weeks after public outcry about how it was destroying millions of unsold items per year at a single warehouse.
Every state in the lower 48 now has a Chase branch: The banking giant can boast of a physical presence in all 48 contiguous states. It’s expanded into 10 states this year alone—this push is a contrarian bet, as other banks have been cutting branches.
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