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News 1: Taobao Live and renaissance of TV shopping
Taobao (the mass market shopping app of Alibaba) successfully pushes the Taobao Live app. A classical teleshopping but on contemporary standards: vertical, streamers, chats in parallel, ecosystem of merchants. A push for small stores (closed) that can stream product demo, offers and online sales. Opinion: It makes sense. If a small store is closed. The owner can stream a “teleshopping” alternative to real-life shopping. A lamp and a phone holder as equipment and a scenario. A renaissance of a disliked format. B2B Takeout: On our watch list: development of teleshopping in social media version. Taobao strong on it, Amazon Live runs in the US.
News 2: Collibra raises and raises
The largest Belgian start-up Collibra keeps on raising funds — positive announcement of new §112 million (in total $345m). Collibra provides with a suite of tool to manage data. Use cases: risks, cost reduction, security and migration to cloud. Opinion: At least a positive announcement at a moment where many VC-backed start-ups are struggling. Especially if investments burn fast. B2B Takeout: Collibra focusses right now on tools for managing data in migration from own servers to public cloud. A use case that many companies carry out.
News 3: From 10 to 200 million users! Zoom huge pressure.
Zoom users rocketed from 10 million to 200 million users between Dec. and March. Catapulting Zoom in the top league — with tremendous challenges of privacy and security. CEO Eric Yuan blogposted on it and the feature freeze — focussing on basic security checks. Opinion: “Zoombombing” is the expression of the moment — with hackers interfering into zoom conference with any strange videos. Zoom is a tool for businesses that went mass market in 2 weeks. An immense challenge for the zoom IT but for the reputation! B2B Takeout: No need to say — the choice and usage of video conference and collaborative tool is now (and at last) a key strategic decision. No one at C-level will dare differ this any longer.
Authors are the 10 trend scouters at Space and Lemon, always on the hunt for the newest trends in tech and digital. Gathered here in original weekly news since 2016 — no re-write of TechCrunch, always with an opinion and B2B takeout. Come back next Monday and share your opinion.
