Forecasts
| JUN 3, 2022
Article
| APR 14, 2022
The 100,000-year plan: As Finland takes bold action toward energy independence with new nuclear reactors and an unfathomable waste-storage strategy, Russia’s energy tendrils are proving hard to untangle.
Article
| MAR 10, 2022
Thinner and lighter devices are a repairability problem: Tech companies like to talk about how far ahead they are in sustainability, but their products undermine their net-zero aspirations.
Article
| DEC 20, 2021
Emerging countries looking to upgrade their network infrastructure have become good starting points for expanding Big Tech’s network provider aspirations.
Article
| NOV 19, 2021
Report
| JUL 1, 2022
Aspiration. Bank of America. Banking Exchange. Built for Mars. Capital One. Chase. Chime. Citibank. Columbus Business First. Cornerstone Advisors. Current. Fifth Third Bank. Forbes. J.D. Power. Newgen. PNC. Prove. Signicat. TD Bank. The Financial Brand. Truist. U.S. Bank. Varo. Wells Fargo.
Report
| NOV 30, 2021
The top four US neobanks by user count—Aspiration, Chime, Current, and Varo—will nearly double their users from 17.7 million this year to 34.0 million in 2025, per our forecast; these figures are approximate, given the likely overlap between account holders. While this growth is impressive, it’s not translating into profits.
Report
| OCT 26, 2021
Banks are progressively competing with each other for the same search terms across the same channels, making it more difficult to achieve conversion, said Ivan Wicksteed, chief growth and revenue officer at environment- and ethics-focused financial firm Aspiration.
Report
| SEP 15, 2021
Aspiration positions itself as the anti-bank. It will have 3.0 million account holders by the end of 2021, or 1.1% of the US adult population. By 2025, we expect Aspiration to more than double its total customers to 6.4 million (2.4% of US adult consumers).
Article
| OCT 15, 2021
Article
| MAY 5, 2022
Although office perks like free food, swag, and ping pong may have been desirable in the past, changed expectations and aspirations have elevated remote work on the perk hierarchy. From Big Tech’s perspective, its real estate spending sprees—including Apple’s $5 billion Apple Park campus—need bodies to justify the expenses.
Article
| APR 26, 2022
Citizen Musk: Altruistic free speech aspirations aside, purchasing Twitter gives Musk political leverage similar to Rupert Murdoch’s purchase of the New York Post in 1976 as well as his 2007 purchase of The Wall Street Journal. Billionaires buying into the media is nothing new. Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013.
Report
| FEB 10, 2022
Some of the most formidable sustainability competitors banks face include US neobank Aspiration, which markets itself aggressively and offers a wide array of ESG-focused products and services. Even smaller players, such as California-based Joro, present a threat with unique ESG tools that include a real-time, personalized sustainability impact assessment.
Article
| MAR 31, 2022
Russia previously received AI tech support from China for robotic weapons development, but war sanctions are dealing a blow to Russia’s AI aspirations. China is similarly working on AI-fueled autonomous weapons, possibly surpassing US progress in that arena.
Article
| AUG 20, 2021
Article
| MAR 16, 2022
Intel’s European aspirations mirror its $20 billion chip hub in Ohio, as well as a $7 billion facility in Malaysia. The company is looking to take advantage of significant EU subsidies for building chip plants. Europe is aiming to legislate $49 billion into chip funding but with the caveat that governing bodies have a say in which industries companies can prioritize.
Article
| MAR 8, 2022
However, the MLB is currently in a lockout that could end up canceling the entire season, complicating Apple's aspirations. 2. New iPhone SE, iPad Air models feature the latest mobile processors, 5G connectivity.
Article
| JUN 2, 2021
Current is set to surpass Aspiration to become No. 2
Article
| FEB 16, 2022
Revolut India CEO Paroma Chatterjee called it “the first step toward our aspiration to usher in a digital financial revolution in India.”. Revolut also gave an overview of its product plans, stating it intends “to launch bespoke financial products, many of which would be new to the country, reflecting the unique needs of Indian consumers.”.
Article
| FEB 3, 2022
In shopping, we're not a retailer, and we have no aspirations to be a retailer. In payments, we're not a bank, and we have no aspiration to be a bank. But we can help retailers bring their value propositions to the user’s purchase journeys as they're figuring out where or what to buy.
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| JAN 15, 2022
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| JAN 15, 2022
Report
| JAN 19, 2022
It’s not enough for CMOs to capture and aggregate customer opinions, ideas, and aspirations. Great CMOs become champions for their customers inside the organization, seeking to influence policy decisions, back-end processes, and even financial decisions.
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| MAY 6, 2021
Article
| DEC 28, 2021
The whole Windows Phone fiasco should have been enough to distance Microsoft from its mobile aspirations, but the temptation was too strong. Microsoft’s Surface Duo 2, the successor to its poorly received dual-screen Android-powered device, remains an oddity in the smartphone market.