As I've been following and writing about Synaptics over the last few years, I've witnessed a fascinating and transitional time for the company. I've seen Synaptics turn around its financials under its adept new CEO, Michael Hurlston, and lean hard into its IoT efforts. So much so that I believe it's more apt these days to call Synaptics an "IoT" company.
Back Market co-founders Thibaud Hug de Larauze, Vianney Vaute, Quentin La Brouster have raised $335 million to grow the refurbished gadget marketplace. Back Market French startup Back Market has raised $335 million from investors General Atlantic, Goldman Sachs, and LVMH billionaire Bernard Arnault’s family office to help grow its marketplace for repaired smartphones, tablets and other gadgets.
You have to treat your internal users as if they are customers because, in a sense, they are.
Rodolphe Barrere is co-founder and CEO of Potloc, a market research company pioneering a new approach to extracting consumer insights.
The best businesses understand the importance of listening to their customers. Customer insights are critical in almost every aspect of a company’s operations, whether you are delivering a finished product or an essential service — and regardless of whether you are B2B or B2C. The Holy Grail of consumer research is finding the best (as defined by relevance and honesty, at least) respondents that can be targeted in a very niche way — and doing so in a way that meets the time constraints of sampling in today’s rapidly shifting consumer markets.
The cover person of this year’s list is Rodolphe Barrere, French-born cofounder and CEO of Potloc...
Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are progressing at a rapid pace, notwithstanding Covid-19 constraints. The past 2 months have experienced significant corporate events. These include Amazon’s acquisition of Zoox, Volkswagen’s investments in Argo, Yandex plans to spin-out its AV joint venture with Uber, and LiDAR unicorns (LUnicorns) Velodyne and Luminar announcing plans to go public at multibillion-dollar valuations (more than Zoox!).
In a recent article, I discussed the factors driving the consolidation in the automotive LiDAR industry. I also presented 4 areas ripe for investments, one of which was solid-state LiDAR. The focus of this article is on assessing the approaches and maturity of LiDAR that uses solid-state scanning techniques for beam steering and enables efficient use of photons in space and time.
World leaders and prominent CEOs are likely the first people you picture in Davos at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting each January. While you may be more likely to hear these higher profile CEOs weigh in on pressing global issues, these headlines only show a small section of those who attend Davos.
Much has been written and discussed about the merging of the physical, digital and biological worlds with machines. Artificial intelligence has become a catch-all description for replicating something inherently human and embedding it in man-made systems that can perhaps function better, if not at least more efficiently, than our bodies and brains.
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