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Last month Amwell and GoodRx, two telehealth-focused companies, listed publicly through IPOs. Amwell raised $922M with a current market cap of $7.8B, while GoodRx raised $1.3B with a current market cap of $20B. [more]

In this past week’s PGC Conference, a key topic of discussion was the changing trends in the gaming industry, with speakers and keynote presentations from companies including Doppio Games, Gameloft, Headup, and Netmarble. [more]

The pandemic may have slowed down demand for office spaces temporarily however, overall supply in the market maintained stability. According to Altus Group, a commercial real estate services firm, in Q1/2020, the vacancy rate in Canada dropped to 9.5% compared with 10.3% year-over-year. [more]

Last week, technology companies reported financial performances of their cloud businesses, including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google with cloud revenues of $12.3B, $10.2B, and $2.8B, respectively. [more]

As the Covid-19 pandemic socially isolates most economies across the world, the business world is quickly changing from office space to remote environments. Companies adapting online focus on three areas of digital transformation: (1) cloud storage, (2) workplace communication, and (3) video conferencing. [more]

Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. focused on autonomous driving, announced this week its first external investment round, to be used towards supporting its current strategy of expanding partnerships. [more]

Companies facing data security problems: Siri and Google hacked, police use facial recognition software, SpaceX and Tesla’s manufacturer hacked, and FaceApp scrutinized for its data practices. [more]

Alibaba, Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle are all fighting for a pie of an industry growing at over 20% per year & estimated to be almost $75B by 2022. [more]