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Healthcare is in the midst of a dramatic transformation. This may seem obvious, but the culmination of this week’s news – CVS buying Aetna to create a new healthcare platform and Apple partnering with Stanford to carry out a medical…

Bottom Line. Alexa has 70-80% smart speaker market share and is pedal to the metal in expanding the market beyond the consumer today, being the first company to target the business opportunity. While we expect Alexa will continue to be the…

On November 7th, Waymo reached a new milestone by removing the safety net and testing fully autonomous vehicles on public roads without someone behind the wheel to take over in case of an emergency. Waymo has been testing in the…

A thought on the quarter. Google reported Sept-17 results tonight highlighted by 24% fxn revenue growth, comparable to 2016 growth and above 2015 which was 20%. It’s worth taking a step back to recall investors concern from 2 years ago that…

Ridesharing, more specifically, the fate of Uber and Lyft, is at the top of the potentially disrupted list as autonomy approaches. Both of these companies will need to make the leap to autonomy whether it be organically, through acquisition, or…

As you drive down the road, you make countless subconscious micro-decisions and calculations built on past experience. You know what 40 mph feels like by observing how fast the trees are passing by, how hard you can hit the brakes…

Yesterday, Google released eight devices that all screamed a single message – Google’s hardware ambitions are both serious and AI-centric. Google is doubling down on hardware, as a means to democratize the use of AI. The company has recently poured…

With the smart speaker market still comfortably in its youth, and voice as a computing interface just beginning to take hold, no one is sure what the best use cases for the technology are, or what the device that best…

Legislation and infrastructure are two of the biggest hurdles facing the unmanned aircraft industry. An Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) system is an important solution. With nearly 30 years of experience in the Aviation sector over his career at the Department of…

Special thanks to Austin Bohlig for his work on this note.  Last week we introduced our 2040 Automotive forecasts, available here, detailing our projections for electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles and fleet services. We believe the global automotive industry is quickly approaching…

The global automotive industry is quickly approaching a transformation that should fully take shape by 2040. While 20 years doesn’t seem very far away, keep in mind that technology is advancing at an accelerating pace — the next 20 years…

The ambitious and multifaceted endeavor that is fully autonomous driving seems simply too large a task for one company to undertake. In the race for autonomy, automakers, software experts, hardware manufacturers, and ridesharing companies are turning to each other in…