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The air taxi market prepares to take flight

TechCrunch

Taking an eVTOL from design through to manufacturing and certification will likely cost about $1 billion, Mark Moore, then-head of Uber Elevate, estimated in April 2020 during a conference held by the Air Force’s Agility Prime program. Archer spent $21 million in R&D in 2020, according to regulatory filings.

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The Station: Arrival slashes EV targets, more Tesla FSD controversy and NHTSA loses its captain

TechCrunch

However, while the 128 million trips taken in 2021 is an improvement from 2020, people are still not riding at pre-pandemic levels. Investment in European micromobility businesses quadrupled since 2020 compared to 2018-2019, and that really may be the space to watch considering Europe has far more dense cities than the U.S.

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Customer service, especially field service, helps companies outperform competitors and drive growth

CIO

By increasing customer engagement, Gallup also promotes increases in customer service metrics, including: 66% higher sales growth, 10% increase in net profit, 25% increase in customer loyalty, and +20 percentile point increases in customer confidence. There’s much to be done. Only 26% of U.S.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Tonal EC-1, Deliveroo’s rocky IPO, is Substack really worth $650M?

TechCrunch

For this morning’s column , Alex Wilhelm looked back on the last few months, “a busy season for technology exits” that followed a hot Q4 2020. By any measure, it is poised for success — sales increased 800% between December 2019 and 2020, and by the end of this year, the company will have 60 retail locations.

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Next steps towards the total hybrid experience

Capgemini

Agile contracts from niche service providers are becoming more in demand as they enable organizations to respond faster – as opposed to being weighed down by locked in, long-term commitments. We at Capgemini have a two-fold ambition of delivering a net zero future to our clients as well as within our group.

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Kayak co-leads Life House’s $60M Series C to ‘reimagine’ the hotel experience

TechCrunch

Rami and team are combining hands-on operations with agile software development — it’s a great combination.”. At the time of its $30 million Series B in January of 2020, branded hotels made up about 50% of the startup’s portfolio. Life House currently manages the operations of close to 50 hotels in North America.

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Escalate and Intensify Company Wide Innovation Focus Even in Tough Times

Planbox

April 23, 2020 – Planbox, a pioneer in cloud-based AI-powered agile innovation management solutions, is set to present an exclusive webcast, Escalate and Intensify Company Wide Innovation Focus Even in Tough Times , featuring guest speaker James Staten, Forrester VP, Principal Analyst serving CIO Professionals, on May 7, 2020 at 1PM EDT.