Blockchain trends. Oh, that Elon. Eco-friendly on fleek.
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Funeral live-streaming services are having a moment.
Yup.
Apparently around 20% of funeral homes in the US now offer live-streaming.
Is that morbid oversharing? Maybe, but these services actually seem to be helping families deal with their grief. Loved ones who wouldn’t have been able to attend the funeral because of travel costs, etc. are able to say goodbye, and they can rewatch the recordings of tributes to the deceased later.
Wired has more on the trend. You can read about it in The Blurb.
Don’t call it a comeback (yet)
Blockchain didn’t have a great 2018, but it seems to be perking up this year.
Market uncertainty is still high, but new developments like Facebook’s Libra project have given it a second wind.
Last week French’s partnered with Cool Haus to create mustard ice cream for National Mustard Day.
Not to be outdone, Oscar Mayer then dropped this:
The Ice Dog Sandwich is described as “hot dog infused ice cream with real bits of candied Oscar Mayer hot dogs served alongside spicy mustard ice cream” smushed between two cookie “buns.”
Just because you can create something, doesn’t mean you should.
Happy tweet-aversary
It’s been one whole year since Elon Musk’s famous “funding secured” tweet that sent markets reeling.
We take a look at what else Musk and his companies are shaking up, from energy to automotive to transportation and beyond.
CB Insight’s Growth Collective is demystifying the growth strategies of the highest performing companies.
We identified 33 of the highest performing companies in the S&P 500 and found that the majority (55%) are buying their way into growth instead of investing or building on their own.
That’s interesting, because everyone else is building.
When we asked over 1000 corporate executives last year, 51% said they were primarily focused on building their way to growth.
The fashion industry has a waste problem. At the rate it’s going, it could consume a quarter of the world’s carbon budget by 2050.
But with rising consumer demand for sustainable products and new innovations in technology, companies in the space are taking steps to become more eco-friendly.
The financial services space has been slow to adopt cloud computing tech, but this is beginning to change.
More fin services companies are looking to cloud services to help lower infrastructure costs, accelerate software deployment, improve security, and more.
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