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Weekly#409

  • Top digital marketing trends and predictions for 2021
  • Spotting the signals
  • The year shopping changed forever…At the end of last year, only around 13 percent of retail purchases — excluding auto and gas sales — were made online, according to Mastercard. By the end of 2020, that figure stands at around 20 percent, or $1 out of every $5…
  • How coronavirus has shaped the home of tomorrow (Paywall : FT)
  • What Did 2020 Do to Retail?
  • Your Most-Played Song of 2020 Is … White Noise?“…Ambient music, background noise and calming sound effects have soothed the anxious, isolated and sleep deprived this year…”
  • The Hidden Tradeoffs of Working From Home
  • Tech’s top seven companies added $3.4 trillion in value in 2020
  • The Apple car, briefly explained
  • EarlyBird’s new app lets families and friends ‘gift’ investments to children
  • Elon Musk says SpaceX will attempt to recover Super Heavy rocket by catching it with launch tower
  • Fluence, the energy storage systems developer, is now worth over $1 billion after QIA investment
  • Amazon acquires podcast network Wondery
  • Student-founded Develop for Good surpasses 25,000 volunteer hours connecting students with nonprofits
  • Best new board game apps of 2020
  • The best video essays of 2020
  • The Turing Test is obsolete. It’s time to build a new barometer for AI
  • Study Finds More Than $100 Billion Spent on App Stores in 2020
  • What we have learnt about the limits of science
  • Human Development Report 2020 [PDF]
  • Automation nation: 9 robotics predictions for 2021
  • Why retailers everywhere should look to China
  • Responsible Marketing with First-Party Data
  • Decoding Decisions [PDF]| Think with Google