New technologies are becoming available to consumers through innovative connected devices in the home. Multiple brands have released new connected products geared at improving convenience and helping consumers monitor and address daily living challenges.

By 2026, 65% of B2B sales organizations will transition from intuition-based to data-driven decision making, using technology that unites workflow, data and analytics, according to Gartner, Inc. The market is growing rapidly with the rush to virtual selling due to the pandemic.

After years of slow but steady growth in limited use cases, virtual reality (VR) is facing a market explosion over the next five years. Consumer interest in VR games and media continues to grow after COVID accelerated activity.

Despite the proliferation of available smart home devices and services, as well as numerous escalating promotions, the adoption rate for many smart home products has remained consistent over the past few years. Manufacturers and service providers are eager to understand what they must do to make significant gains in sales and revenue.

U.S. employee annual voluntary turnover is likely to jump nearly 20% this year, from a prepandemic annual average of 31.9 million employees quitting their jobs to 37.4 million quitting in 2022, according to Gartner, Inc. As employees seek to take advantage of new hybrid work arrangements, they are confronting issues of misalignment with leaders and achieving the flexibility they desire.

As content consumption has risen through the COVID-19 pandemic, consumers have demonstrated a willingness to pay for many ad-free online entertainment services, as evidenced in the significant uptick in subscription revenue throughout 2020-2021.

Frost & Sullivan’s analysis of the global cloud gaming market, finds that the global video game market is experiencing disruption with the advent of cloud gaming. It allows users to enjoy the latest gaming titles without high-end hardware or downloading the full software on their computers or other devices.

Trends accelerated by the pandemic have created significant networking and security challenges: the expansion of the remote workforce, an increasing reliance on cloud infrastructure, and the requirement to connect end-users securely everywhere with applications anywhere. Traditional solutions that have rigid wired network underlays and a requirement for on-premises infrastructure cannot adequately deal with these trends.

One of the biggest challenges determining how live broadcasters utilize and deliver high dynamic range (HDR) to audiences around the world revolves around how to efficiently integrate legacy standard dynamic range (SDR) content in a technically effective and cost-efficient manner. What is needed is a superior fidelity two-way conversion process between SDR and HDR.

During the past two years, the home improvement sector experienced an uptick in sales as customers tackled do-it-yourself (DIY) projects to improve the functionality or aesthetics of their homes—and kill time. This elevated level of activity has reshaped the landscape of the paint market.

Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 20.4% in 2022 to total $494.7 billion, up from $410.9 billion in 2021, according to Gartner. In 2023, end-user spending is expected to reach nearly $600 billion.

As the media and entertainment industry convenes at the 2022 NAB Show in Las Vegas on April 23-27, executives from Advanced HDR by Technicolor® will be on hand to showcase its new “round-trip” feature that automates the SDR-HDR and HDR-SDR conversion process for live-TV and post-production operations while maintaining the original intent of the content creators.

China's Dual Credit policy has been in place for the past several years and has been a key driver for the rapid growth of the New Energy Vehicle (NEV) segment in China. OEMs like Tesla and BYD with a focus on BEVs (battery electric vehicles) posted the best results while traditional OEMs, including major international players such as Toyota, GM, VW and Honda struggled.

While many countries are still in various states of reduced transit services, the chipset shortage will make its presence known in 2022, causing a shortfall in supply for lower ASP end markets and resulting in a drop in 2022 shipments to just under 290 million.

Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $595 billion in 2021, an increase of 26.3% from 2020, according to final results by Gartner, Inc.

Interruptions in the supply chain and lack of reliable communication are exacerbating the distribution of food, health care and housing for people who are either trapped in the war zone or are seeking refuge in neighboring countries. In the fog of war, a lack of transparency leads to the absence of accountability for people who want to know the resources they direct to Ukraine arrive and are provided to the people who need the most help.

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 77.5 million units in the first quarter of 2022, a 7.3% decrease from the first quarter of 2021, according to Gartner, Inc. A sharp drop in Chromebook sales significantly contributed to the overall market decline.

Ukraine is a major contributor to the global tech community, with 250,000 highly-skilled individuals well known for their talent and commitment, often involved in mission-critical projects. Companies are now scrambling as the workers they count on are pushed out of the picture. These employees cannot move forward on daily tasks and worry they may not have a job to return to when the dust settles.

Pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, and transportation providers all face unique pain points within their supply chain operations. As a result, these enterprises are looking at asset visibility as a way not only to mitigate costs but to use it as a competitive advantage and to generate higher-quality supply chain data both at an item level and at a network level.

Transformational forces are influencing the global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) market’s growth. Disruptive, innovative business models and technologies mandate the need to commercialize personalized therapies and focus on improvements in manufacturing technologies.