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Big department stores have mostly recovered from the pandemic. For example, Macy’s has been hiring 202.9% more than pre-pandemic level, Kohl’s up 1424.1%
Weedmaps, closed 2021 with record annual revenue of $193.1 million, added 21.2% more stores over the last 6 mo, as of Mar 2022, they have 1997 in Canada, 13.14K stores in the US and 1128 in other countries (show a map)
Tech patent/Innovation war is heating up. During the past 2 years, Apple is catching up with MSFT on the number of B1 patent (read the doc here https://www.bitlaw.com/source/mpep/901_04_a.html) they published 52.3% more B1 patents over the past 2 years vs 15.1% for MSFT
Klover app, the companies that leverage your personal data and give users access to financing services, (series A 60M funding in Aug 2021), is now building a new category of consumer banking, partners include Wayfair, DoorDash, and GoodRx. App data proxies a 813% growth in mobile adoption over the past 18 months
China’s back to lockdown as Omicron cases hike up again, Shanghai starts the biggest lockdown in 2 years, how much does it hurt the biggest traveling site? Traction data shows that over the past 2 years, the number of travel agency at Qunar.com, has dropped by 39.3% and Tourist Route count did rebound to 4.16Million in Oct 2021, but soon tanked 48.6% to 2.14M as of Mar 2022