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...A shift in habits such as home-based working and a rise in demand for cloud-based software prompted research group Gartner to predict an 11 per cent spending rise globally to $188bn for 2023....
...Missfresh notified all employees to work from home on Thursday and several staffers told the FT that the company had turned off its internal IT system....
...He said there is a “strong momentum in our business, supported by growing delivery volumes, increased revenues, and an improved path to profitability”....
...The deal should create cross-selling opportunities for CVS’s other businesses, including Signify, and roughly 10,000 retail pharmacies, as well as benefits manager Caremark Rx....
...He added: “The VinFast VF 8 had successfully passed [US Federal] mandatory safety tests in December 2022, three months before our official deliveries....
...This will probably come in the form of savings for Aetna. Treating patients — especially low-income ones — at home is cheaper than hospital stays....
...In January hackers disrupted Britain’s Royal Mail parcel delivery service....
...Job moves Adam DeWitt is stepping down as chief executive of the food delivery group Grubhub....
...This week, it emerged that Amazon plans to bid against pharmacy chain CVS for Signify Health, a $6bn home health services provider in a September auction....
...Waiting lists have increased over the past three years, exacerbated by the pandemic, leading to months-long delays in accessing beds in out-of-home care units....
...The Nasdaq Composite, home to many of America’s largest tech groups, has risen around 6 per cent in 2021, trailing the broader S&P 500’s nearly 12 per cent rally....
...When food-delivery apps rolled out autonomous robots on college campuses, they attached googly eyes to the front in an effort to make them look more friendly (and less kickable)....
...Amazon would be prohibited from forcing sellers on its Prime subscription service to use the company’s own delivery services....
...Tuesday: European food delivery group Just Eat Takeaway.com reports earnings....
...Supper’s readySupper, the high-end food delivery business, is seeking to raise £5m in a private equity-backed funding round, just days after delivery app Deliveroo lost billions in market value within minutes...
...Online gaming platform Roblox, a favourite of preteens stuck at home, entered public markets via a direct listing on Wednesday, with its shares closing at $74 on its second trading day....
...In hot areas such as food delivery, Tiger Global has placed bets on competing companies, a practice that traditional venture investors typically shun....
...Tesla has led the way and its shares rose to a record high on the first trading session of 2021 today, off the back of it beating Wall Street targets for 2020 deliveries, while falling shy of Elon Musk’s...
...But this year the Swiss home to the World Economic Forum enjoys a peaceful silence and a fresh coat of snow....
...A new Intercom feature allows you to chat around the home with family members or when using Apple devices outside the home, although it is more about exchanging messages than live conversation....
...grocery delivery service....
...Uber widens delivery servicesUber is reviving an attempt to offer deliveries of goods as well as people and food, as it searches for new sources of revenue during the pandemic....
...Welcome to another working-from-home edition of #techFT, where the broadband network is still holding up, if not the mobile one....
...On the other hand, home delivery is prospering....
...Technology is already enabling us to work from home, attend virtual conferences, with services like Hopin, receive food deliveries and stream entertainment to keep us indoors....
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