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NFR #44 - Robotics, Aerospace, Wheat & Warehouses
Robotics, Aerospace, Wheat & Warehouses
🐦 Inspirational Tweet
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🐦 Twitter Thread Of The Week
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🤖 eCommerce News
“Lawrence considers Drip “the Shopify for livestream commerce,” providing tooling so users can run livestream auctions, drops or buy it now formats via Drip’s existing marketplace.”
‘Netflix reportedly has plans to roll out live streaming — a capability that could bring an entirely new value for the streamer as it experiences a major slump in subscriber growth. This is in the early stages of development, however; it will apparently launch for its many unscripted shows and stand-up specials. Deadline first broke the news and according to sources, a small team within the company is in the preliminary stages of developing the product.”
“Peloton’s reveal is more of a teaser and official confirmation than anything else. We don’t know the specs or when it’ll launch — just that it’s “coming soon.” In terms of design, the rower itself appears to have a similar vibe to the Peloton Tread — sleek, with a minimalist profile and a display to watch classes on.”
“As ecommerce sales soar, brands face a stark reality: embrace automation, or cede customers to the competition,” co-founder and CEO Samay Kohli said in a release. “We orchestrate fulfillment and optimize inventory in a complex global supply chain environment for more companies that ship millions of items each day than any other player in the market outside of Amazon.”
“Storyblok — a startup founded in Linz, Austria, that has built a headless CMS designed both for technical and non-technical users like marketers to manage content that appears across websites, apps and other digital interfaces for education, commerce, gaming and other kinds of publishers — has raised $47 million, funding that it will use to continue expanding its CMS platform with more functionality. The company’s tools are already used by some others 74,000 companies”
“Surely, this won’t be abused? Alongside the launch of the iOS 15.5 update, Apple introduced a new set of rules to govern auto-renewing subscriptions on the App Store. Now, instead of asking users to agree to any subscription price increases, developers will be able to roll out a price increase without the user’s explicit consent. The feature feels somewhat anti-consumer, as it allows developers to simply inform customers they’ll be charged more, not require the customer to opt-in to the higher pricing.”
“To effectively drive sustainability reporting, sustainability efforts, and business transformation, organizations need better visibility into activities across their enterprise and value chain. Collecting and connecting IoT data from devices using sensors — combined with rich services at the edge or in the cloud — provides the basis to monitor and measure activities at scale.” The data collection piece takes place in a tool called Microsoft Sustainability Manager, which they write “will empower organizations to more easily record, report and reduce their environmental impact through increasingly automated data connections that deliver actionable insights.”
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🎶 Tik Tok Ad Of The Week:
@PhotoRoom - Paid Partnership
Paid Partnership Stats:
10 Million Views
164k Likes
986 comments
Why was this ad good? ✅
✅ Loud & strong opening hook
“If you flip things from the thrift store like I do, then it is very important to have good photos”
✅ No fluff
No wasted words meant I didn’t switch off and scroll past as they waffled on
✅ Great use of an engaged micro influencer
Thrifting has become one of the most popular side hustles in the world and using influencers like @ladyarbitrage a tech company like photo room are able to access & add value to audiences that they otherwise would have struggled to reach.
If you’re not at least testing and learning on Tik Tok at the moment, I think you’re missing out on the greatest content marketing waves we’ve ever seen.
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📈 Trends Of The Week:
Farmer headaches 🚜
“The price of anhydrous ammonia (NH3) has increased 235% in one year, according to the US Department of Agriculture. The spike is due to the growing energy costs, and high crop prices. The latter puts pressure on farmers to apply more fertiliser than recommended as insurance against low yields. Source: WSJ via Plan Maestro”
Aerospace 🚀
“As low-carbon road transport technologies mature, investors are looking for new opportunities and expanding into aviation. The majority of investment in aerospace startups to date has been in the urban air mobility space. Source: American Journal of Transportation “
“India bans wheat exports to try and tame prices as a scorching heatwave curtailed output.
India has prohibited wheat exports, the government said in a notification late on Friday.
The world’s second-biggest wheat producer is trying to calm local prices.
Global buyers were banking on the world’s second-biggest wheat producer for supplies after exports from the Black Sea region plunged following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February.”
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✍️ Poem Of The Week
Inner Strength
It's only through mistakes we makeWe learn where we went wrong.It's only when we're far from homeWe realize where we belong.
It's only when we close our eyesOur dreams seem clear and bright.It's only in our darkest hoursWe truly see the light.
It's only when we lose our wayWe pray to the stars above.It's only through times of griefWe learn the true meaning of love.
It's only when all hope seems lostAnd our weary journey seems so far,When all the world's against you,We learn how strong we really are.
All things are sent to try us.We must strive and give our best.I believe God is watching over us,And he guides us in our quest.By John P. Read