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Facts and Stats

Prioritizing Employee Emotional Well-Being. Well-being is a key concern for many, as highlighted by a global survey in which one-third of respondents prioritized emotional wellness, underscoring the need for tools to enhance it.

Gartner Predicts: AI as a Primary Indicator of National Power (With) enough GPUs & electricity, you can make unlimited amounts of talent Organisations failing to address AI anxiety could face up to 20% higher rates of turnover Research and advisory.

Study: Women Board Members Enhance Corporate Sustainability. New research has revealed that firms with female directors on the board, regardless of how many, improve the quality of corporate sustainability disclosures than those with no board representation.

TikTok's Growing Role in Holiday Shopping and Gift Inspiration. As the holiday season approaches, consumers are gearing up to spend more than they have a year prior. Social media will be a key channel many leverage for their gift-giving needs, with TikTok

The Number

23%

Blogs appear in the top 5 Google Search results in 23% of the time (excluding homepages), according to BrightEdge.

Who’s Innovating?

NYC Unveils Urban-Tech Accelerator Program. A newly launched program provides city agencies, private companies, and academic institutions with the chance to pilot cutting-edge technologies that aim to tackle urban challenges.

Walmart's Incubator and Outlier Ventures Debut First Startups in Accelerator Program Walmart's incubation arm, Store Nº8, has partnered with Outlier Ventures to launch an accelerator program for startups focused on building Web3 technologies.

Johnson & Johnson Partners with Singapore to Boost Life Science Innovation. This collaboration is the first of its kind and will leverage Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JLABS' services and innovation resources aimed at boosting the region's innovation output.

Spotify Dives Into Enterprise IT and Launches an Open-Source Marketplace. The digital streaming company partnered with Red Hat to expand the reach of its Backstage engineering solution.

CGI and the University of Leicester Open Innovation Lab. The program will offer a collaborative space for the advisory firm to partner with university experts and students, with a focus on advancing technology that can expedite the UK's transition to a net-zero economy.

Qatar: QFC Launches Digital Assets Lab to Facilitate Open Innovation. The Lab will foster open innovation in Qatar through proof-of-concept and proof-of-value, accelerating the growth of Qatar’s digital sector in line with the vision to establish Doha as a global financial and commercial hub by 2030

Startup Stories

Uniting Nordic Forces: The Emergence of The Nordic Tech Valley. Estonia proudly claims the third spot among the leading startup hubs in the Nordics, a recognition conferred by the recent StartupBlink report.

The Scaleup Report 2023. Startup Genome's newest research report, compiled through interviews with a multitude of global startup leaders, delivers the most comprehensive and current insights on the elements influencing the success of startups and ecosystems

Meet The New AI Unicorns Of 2023. One in five of the new billion-dollar startups to join The Crunchbase Unicorn Board this year were artificial intelligence companies, an analysis of the board shows.

Singapore’s YouTrip Raises $50M Series B Funding to Accelerate Regional Expansion. YouTrip, a Singapore-based multi-currency digital payments platform, has on Thursday announced it has raised $50 million in its latest Series B fundraising round, led by new investors and global venture.

Best practices

Goodbye Programmers: A Team of AI Bots Develops Software in 7 Minutes Instead of 4 Weeks

Back in July, a team of researchers proved that ChatGPT can design a simple, producible microchip from scratch in under 100 minutes, following human instructions provided in plain English.

How to Use Hackathons to Unlock Big Ideas in AI. With the rise of large language models (LLMs), AI has dominated the news, affecting various industries, including drug discovery, the role of CFOs, and now, it's making its presence felt in hackathons.

PM Modi Launches 100 ‘5G Use Case Labs’. Visakhapatnam Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the inauguration of the 7th edition of the India Mobile Congress, at Bharat Mandapam, Pragati Maidan, in New Delhi on Friday.

You Can Now Treat Your Cough, Cold, or Flu Virtually Through Amazon Clinic. Amazon Clinic customers can now select “Cough, cold, and flu” from the “Find a treatment” list on Amazon Clinic via Amazon.com or the Amazon mobile app.

9 Unique Ways Companies Are Motivating Employees to Return to the Office. As companies strive to entice employees back to the office in the post-pandemic era, they are leveraging these perks to elevate morale, cultivate a distinctive corporate culture, and even draw in fresh talent.

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