KAUAI, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) -Kauai chef Matthew Oliver is hoping to make it easier to get fresh, local produce in the hands of consumers on the Garden Isle.
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It directly connecting consumers with Kauai farmers who can upload information about their available inventory.
"They have nowhere to sell it. They don't know what to do," Oliver said. "This time when, farmers' market are not an option, this is the option. This is your virtual farmers market."
Quite a lot has been going on:
Local services marketplace Thumbtack lays off 250 employees – TechCrunch
Much has been written about the impact that COVID-19 and the resulting social distancing/shelter in place measures are having on small businesses (and the steps that internet platforms like Facebook and Yelp — which, after all, make money from small businesses advertising — are taking to help).
Similarly, Zappacosta said the local services that Thumbtack showcases in its marketplace are also seeing anything from a “dramatic decline” to an “outright collapse.” Apparently the company’s business has fallen 61% in San Francisco, 55% in Detroit and 50% in New York City.
Orion's Model Marketplace, Communities, Unifies Scale, Quality, and Control With Wide-Ranging
Communities bridges the gap between advisor technology and outsourced investment management, offering advisors investing flexibility, choice, and personalization at scale while still allowing them to maintain their fiduciary oversight and trading discretion
There's an unspoken catch-22 in the investment world, where fiduciary-minded advisors need to grow their businesses, but often don't want to forego control with a hands-off investment management solution. Orion Advisor Tech ("Orion"), a division of Orion Advisor Solutions and the premier provider of financial advisor technology and enhanced investment solutions, addresses this complex demand, today announcing the launch of its investment model marketplace, Orion Communities.
Today's numbers on COVID-19 - Marketplace
Welcome to Marketplace’s daily, at-a-glance update. Like you, we're overloaded with info on COVID-19 developments. So here’s our effort to track a few critical numbers on the pandemic and the broader economy.
Keep in mind: The tally of COVID-19 cases represents only the ones that are documented. Since many remain untested, surely the real number is higher.
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While you're here, how about this:
Online tutoring marketplace Preply banks $10M to fuel growth in North America, Europe –
Online learning looks likely to be a key beneficiary of the social distancing and quarantine measures that are being applied around the world as countries grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic .
In turn, this looks set to buoy some relative veterans of the space. To wit: Preply , a 2013-founded tutoring marketplace, is today announcing a $10 million Series A. It said the funding will be used to scale the business and beef up its focus on the US market, where it plans to open an office by the end of the year.
How long will the COVID-19 recession last? - Marketplace
In one week, more than three million people filed for unemployment benefits. Many more didn't make it through overwhelmed state employment systems to file — that's how fast this recession is rising up around us.
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"A sharp V-shaped recession doesn't seem likely," said Seth Carpenter, chief U.S. economist at UBS. As different parts of the country get hit and shut down at different times, the recession spreads out across time. "The recovery is going to be staggered,” Carpenter said.
Musician Dessa on what happens when artists' gigs to away - Marketplace
"I think, really quickly, we’re trying to figure out, OK, what does it mean for the group of people who’s really good at bringing other people together in times of crisis? What are we supposed to do when we’ve got to stay apart to get through this one?" she said.
Because of social distancing measures, many of the jobs that performing artists have traditionally fallen back on, such as serving and bartending, have gone away as well.
VideoAmp Releases Most Comprehensive Commingled TV Viewership Dataset in US Marketplace
VideoAmp brings together unique data characteristics from Set-Top-Box (STB) data commingled with Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) data to create the largest and most robust linear television and OTT dataset powering the advanced television market
VideoAmp has built a privacy-first platform to solve for current gaps and shortcomings in the brand marketing planning, buying and measurement process. To accomplish this, VideoAmp has partnered with two of the largest Smart TV OEMs and 38 MVPDs for the most accurate viewership data. Following strict privacy protocols, all data is scrubbed, enriched, normalized, anonymized, and commingled into a unified and de-duplicated panel.
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