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The platform that allows Royal Opera House CTO to stream events into homes

CIO

Covid-19 had an instant impact on London’s West End, and the Royal Opera House (ROH) was no exception. Yet the loss of income was so stark that the organisation today says it lost the equivalent of £3 for every £5 through the pandemic. In the technology team, Whitebread says that Covid changed everything.

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Kenyan insurtech startup Pula raises $6M Series A to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa

TechCrunch

Pula is solving this problem by using technology and data. Through its Area Yield Index Insurance product, the insurtech startup leverages machine learning, crop cuts experiments and data points relating to weather patterns and farmer losses, to build products that cater to various risks. million farmers.

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Re-thinking The Insurance Industry In Real-Time To Cope With Pandemic-scale Disruption

Cloudera

The Insurance industry is in uncharted waters and COVID-19 has taken us where no algorithm has gone before. The restaurants argue that they sustained income losses and direct physical losses from the pandemic, which forced them to reconstruct their properties to adapt to restrictive reopening rules.

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Forcing People Back to the Office

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

COVID-19 swept into our awareness in March 2020 and upended our lives. Remote work – a forced experiment during the Covid-19 era or a lasting value? [ Every six to eight months, gather data on what is working at the departmental level and share it out across the whole government. I’m not. It wasn’t all roses.

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The Key to Consumer-Marketplace Success in 2020: Efficiency and the Rule of 40

Battery Ventures

The Marketplace Index actually declined from March 2019 to late October 2019, according to our analysis of data from CapIQ. In short, investors decided they would no longer tolerate companies posting massive losses quarter after quarter. And then Covid-19 happened. What happened? In a word: efficiency. Do the math.

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Travel Fraud Protection: Key Types of Travel Scam, Protective Measures, and Software to Consider

Altexsoft

This quarter [2021], as countries began to open up more from their COVID-19 lockdowns and travel and other leisure activities became more mainstream, fraudsters clearly made this industry a top target.”. In other words, the insured seeks to obtain money for losses that did not occur or aren’t subject to insurance coverage.

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Extra Crunch roundup: How Duolingo became an edtech leader

TechCrunch

With an increasing number of enterprise systems, growing teams, a rising proliferation of the web and multiple digital initiatives, companies of all sizes are creating loads of data every day. Then COVID-19 arrived and scrambled the venture and startup scene, creating a risk-off environment during the end of Q1 and the start of Q2 2020.

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