Ever since Covid outbreak, most of us have been involved in managing our homes and offices with a constant track on the number of cases in our regions. Work from home has resulted in a boom time for online meeting platforms with everyone from MS-Teams, Google Meet and Zoom reporting multi-fold increase in revenues. Zoom's share price have skyrocketed from ~$100 to more than $400 in last 6 months, however, all these news items have been widely reported and almost universally known. What has missed the media radar are the acquisitions made by large tech-firms. Microsoft and Apply have made 6-7 acquisitions each since the pandemic began. Experts predict that Covid will accelerate digital transformation and adoption of tech products in daily life and tech companies are reportedly taking advantage of compressed valuations due to the pandemic to buy companies cheaply. In fact, even IT services firms have been active in acquiring companies eg, India's Infosys ac...
Over the last two months, Anyone and everyone in India has been battered by the news of Sushant Singh Rajput's suicide and various people who might have aided it. Now the investigation have led towards consumption of various drugs including Cannabis. Simultaneously, a lot of research has been going on Cannabis and its impact on Corona Virus . All this led me to dig deeper and Identify which countries are Top R&D hubs for Cannabis Research? Easiest trend identification was Patent Filing Data. Patent Filing in most of the technological aspects of Cannabis and related areas have seen an upward tick since 2014. Here is the broad summary Technological Aspects of Cannabis 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Aspect of Delivery 30 50 70 110 134 18 6 Product Extensions 70 135 155 249 339 61 35 Cannabinoid 10 23 33 43 78 21 10 Cannabis Plant - Life Cycle Methods ...