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Weekly#408

  • Covid-19 Propelled Businesses Into the Future. Ready or Not. (Paywall: WSJ)
  • FT People of the Year: BioNTech’s Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci (Paywall:FT)
  • Will you have to carry a vaccine passport on your phone?
  • The power of value 4.0 for industrial internet of things
  • Nearly half a billion users played Among Us in November
  • Zoom may launch an email service and calendar app to compete with Google and Microsoft
  • Microsoft may be developing its own in-house ARM CPU designs
  • Tesla is going to release Full Self-Driving monthly subscription in early 2021
  • Telegram, nearing 500 million users, to begin monetizing the app
  • TaskRabbit is resetting customer passwords after finding ‘suspicious activity’ on its network
  • Horizon Robotics, a Chinese rival to Nvidia, seeks to raise over $700M
  • Apple targets car production by 2024 and eyes ‘next level’ battery technology
  • The Battle for Mars
  • German firm says indoor vertical farm in Singapore will produce 1.5 tons of ‘leafy greens’ every day
  • There are now almost 300 so-called “neobanks” live worldwide, with nearly half concentrated in Europe.
  • How Amazon Wins: By Steamrolling Rivals and Partners (Paywall:WSJ)
  • Investors pour $1bn into buying up small merchants on Amazon (Paywall:FT)
  • These breakthroughs will make 2021 better than 2020
  • Amazon Echo Frames
  • GP Bullhound Technology 2021 Predictions
  • Fjord Trends 2021
  • BBC Tech trends in 2021
  • Trends In 2021: The Future Of Life, Learning And Play
  • Trendwatching: 21 meaningful, trend-driven innovation opportunities for 2021
  • Top 100 Business Trends for 2021