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Brief news 14/4/22
$AFRM published a research that shows a major generational division when it comes to American's response to inflation.
- 73% of GenZ/Mills and 66% of US consumers in total are concerned that rising costs will prevent them from being able to pay for the things and experiences they want to achieve this year
- The highest amount (38%) to prioritize purchases for the home
- When it comes to deprioritization, 53% to spend loss on restaurants, 47% on entertainment and 34% on beauty
- 53% of GenZ/Mills to spend less this year in reaction to rising costs
- 81% of GenX/Boomers to spend the same or more this year
- As a result of rising costs, about 23% GenX/Boomers are likely to use a "BNPL" option like Affirm over the next month, even larger amount - 41% in GenZ/Mills demographics
$AAPL announced that their suppliers more than doubled their use of clean energy over the last year, with over 10 gigawatts operational today out of nearly 16 gigawatts in total commitments in the coming years. This way, they avoided 13,9M metric tons of carbon emissions last year. Today, 213 of Apple's manufacturing partners have pledged to power all Apple production with renewables across 25 countries, and made joint investments into renewable projects all around the world, including 500MWs of solar and other renewables in China and Japan. In Europe, 11 suppliers made such a commitments bringing the impact to 25 European countries, for example in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark. In the US, they made investments into solar plant in Texas and made commitments with companies such as DuPont and Micron. These commitments should enable Apple to become carbon neutral across their whole supply chain as of 2030. As a reminder, their global operations are carbon neutral since 2020.
$AMZN launched their first Amazon Kids+ original mobile games.
$AMPL appointed their first Chief Customer Officer - Lambert Walsh, who previously worked for 6 years at DocuSign $DOCU.
$DDOG expanded their Watchdog AI Engine with 2 new capabilities - Log Anomaly Detection and Root Cause Analysis.
$ENPH expanded Battery Storage offerings in Iowa.
$GOOGL published some 2021 Google Cloud stats - stating managed cloud services grew at a 73% CAGR + Google Cloud partners globally averaged an 86% ROI for their Google Cloud business.
$NVDA added new games to their GeForce NOW, notably Need for Speed HEAT and Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2.
$PLTR set to unveil a new suite of products available withing the Apollo platform on Apollo Demo Day on April 27th.
$SPOT has renamed their live listening feature to Spotify Live, says Spotify Live can now be found both as a stand-alone app and as a livestream function inside the Spotify app.
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