Global Scans · Food & Agriculture · Weekly Summary

• Transforming the three major systems of food and agriculture, sustainable infrastructure and energy and extractives could deliver $10trn in global GDP and up to 395 million jobs by 2030. Edie
• In Bangladesh, lockdown restrictions had a disruptive impact on agricultural supply chains affecting food accessibility, agriculture input supplies, jobs, and farmer incomes. UK Government
• RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Guatemala will begin in 2022 the implementation of a program of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, with a local and international investment of US$ 66.7 million to create environmental jobs over the next seven years. The Rio Times
• Sustainable models in the areas of food and agriculture, energy and health and wellbeing could create $12bn of economic opportunities and generate up to 380 million jobs by 2030. FoodNavigator.com
• Sustainable business models in four key areas -- energy, cities, food and agriculture, and health and well-being -- could open up at least $12 trillion of economic opportunities and create up to 380 million jobs by 2030. Forbes Technology Council
• Corporate treasury teams in big conglomerates such as Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook could start to become more bank-like in the wake of Open Banking as their frustration with corporate banking provision increases due to its inflexible products and services. 11:FS
• Fintech companies and tech giants such as Facebook, Google and Amazon will benefit from enhanced and regulated ability to build financial management and payment services applications. Bobsguide
• Facebook will most likely further entrench itself as the leading social media channel for marketers thanks to a combination of different ad formats, a huge user base and unprecedented targeting options. TG Daily
• ABI Research has determined that Google and Amazon will lead and drive innovation around smartphones and related ecosystems over the next five to six years. ABI Research
• With Apple Inc., Alphabet and Facebook Inc. introducing AR platforms, the user bases and business models could take shape. TheStreet
• Facebook is developing a facial recognition technology that will allow retailers to see information based on their customers' user profiles as they shop in store. News
• Facebook reportedly has applied for a patent for a technology that will gauge customer's emotions and brand choice by leveraging their Facebook profiles through crowd-scanning technology. The Drum
• The EU's impending revision to the Payment Services Directive could open up Nordic banks to new competition from global tech giants such as Apple, Facebook and Google. Computer Weekly
• Social networks and tech giants like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple will be competing with banks head-on for banking customers and reshaping the financial industry (probably more so than even FinTech start-ups). Cryptomathic.
• Internet service companies cannot experiment with new business models that could help them compete with online businesses like Netflix, Google and Facebook. nytimes.com
• Facebook is going to start showing ads in the middle of its videos and sharing the money with publishers. AdEspresso
• Fans who use Facebook to apply the AR face paint will be able to more quickly upload the pictures to the social media platform that reaches two billion people. SportTechie
• Facebook will allow people outside of the US to send money using its messenger app for the first time as it offers mobile payments in the UK. letstalkpayments
• Some investors might be worried that the probed into Russia meddling with US politics will result in regulation on social networks that might hurt profitability. Space War
• A team at Microsoft has used anonymous Bing search histories from 9.2 million users to predict cases of pancreatic cancer several months before people are usually diagnosed with the disease. Nature
• Unilever is threatening to pull marketing spending from Facebook and Google unless the tech giants provide more disclosure on how online adverts perform. The Times
• Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft's investments in AI and machine learning will be evident in how quickly their visual - and voice-search technologies accelerate in the next two years. Chris Skinner's blog
• The latest figures from eMarketer show that Facebook and Google combined will account for 63.1% of all digital ad spend revenues in the United States in 2017. We Are Social UK

Last updated: 03 November 2024