Innovation in the travel & tourism industry is on the rise, with many travel-assisted tools and services, including smart itineraries, popping up to enhance travelers experience. With a rise in demand for personalized, accessible, and convenient experiences, smart itineraries are enabling travel planning providers to take travel experience to the next level, finds GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies are increasingly pledging to bring the environmental, social and governance (ESG) element into packaging with an aim to address various environmental challenges.
In a world where climate change is increasingly influenced by industrial emissions, decarbonizing the industrial sector becomes the immediate priority to phase out CO2 emissions from the use of fossil fuels. Click to read more.
In a world where climate change is increasingly influenced by industrial emissions, decarbonizing the industrial sector becomes the immediate priority to phase out CO2 emissions from the use of fossil fuels. Against this backdrop, retrofitting carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies to existing industrial infrastructure will become crucial to reaching net zero by 2050, .
Global VC investments value hits $120bn in Q4 Tuesday, February 02, 2021
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia:
Global venture capital (VC) investments during the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2020 remained robust and were nearly at pre-COVID levels, despite the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic and slow economic recovery.
According to GlobalData, the number of VC deals witnessed a continuous decline for the seventh straight quarter, there was an increase in the number of megadeals that helped to drive the overall investment value to nearly US$120bn in Q4.
The quarterly report VentureView: Disruptor Investment Activity Q4 2020 of GlobalData s Disruptor Intelligence Center reveals that e-commerce accounted for more than 40% of the top 10 VC deals in Q4 2020, with significant contributions from the education and retail sectors.