Brief - The Hustle | coronavirus (11)

Pet owners find new ways to connect with vets, trainers, and each other

Caroline Dohack
Updated 4/15/20
Faster than a speeding supercomputer: Volunteers amp up a disease-fighting project

Nick DeSantis
Updated 4/15/20
A major moment for digital mental health services

Nick DeSantis
Updated 4/15/20
Everyone’s buzzing about virtual haircuts

Michael Waters
Updated 4/15/20
The pandemic makes room on the roads for a record-breaking Cannonball run

Nick DeSantis
Updated 4/14/20
On Animal Crossing, the economy never stopped

Michael Waters
Updated 4/14/20
3 ways businesses weathered the Great Recession

Nick DeSantis
Updated 4/14/20
Get dumped? The coronavirus creates a tale of 2 trash heaps

Caroline Dohack
Updated 4/14/20
These social media sites will quench your quarantine thirst

Michael Waters
Updated 4/14/20
Robots take contact-free delivery to the next level

Caroline Dohack
Updated 4/13/20
5 things to know about the Apple-Google collab on contact tracing

Nick DeSantis
Updated 4/13/20
For anyone who’s house hunting, things have gotten weird

Nick DeSantis
Updated 4/13/20
Joey Chestnut’s dream come true: We’re chock full of cheap chicken wings

Nick DeSantis
Updated 4/10/20
Lifting less in quarantine? Blame the supply chain

Michael Waters
Updated 4/10/20
Could the Adderall shortage impact the workplace?

Rob Litterst
Updated 10/17/22
Have we reached peak tipping?

Mia Sullivan
Updated 5/31/22
What’s happening in China?

Jacob Cohen
Updated 5/26/22
Flight execs are ready for mask mandates to end

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 4/13/22
What the heck is ‘goblin mode’?

Rob Litterst
Updated 3/17/22
The world is using fewer condoms than expected

Jacob Cohen
Updated 1/11/22
What the heck is going on with airlines right now?

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 1/3/22
Employees are suing over workplace COVID infections. Do they have a case?

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 12/28/21
Storage units saw unprecedented business due to the pandemic

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 12/27/21
By the numbers: A $300k chicken, 29% of 13-year-olds, and a really rich dog

Jacob Cohen
Updated 11/22/21
Outdoor dining is lovely, but at what cost?

Rob Litterst
Updated 10/11/21
Americans apparently loved Burger King this past year

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 9/21/21
The pandemic crimped the wedding industry. Now, business is booming.

Rob Litterst
Updated 8/17/21
What’s the deal with digital vaccine passports?

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 6/28/21
How researchers are using VR to combat COVID

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 6/14/21
Vaccine freebies may not be incentives (but people like them)

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 6/4/21
Americans are prepping for the post-COVID world… by buying deodorant and toothpaste

Kolby Hatch
Updated 6/2/21
Will the baking industry still rake in the dough after the pandemic?

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 5/27/21
Digits: Electric pickups, a $260m ‘floating’ park, and a DVD SPAC

Jacob Cohen
Updated 5/24/21
Keith Wasserman runs a $1.6B real estate portfolio at Gelt Inc. He tells us what he’s bullish on post-COVID.

Trung T. Phan
Updated 5/19/21
The diet industry is seeing big gains during COVID

Trung T. Phan
Updated 5/13/21
An oncoming mineral shortage may derail our green future

Trung T. Phan
Updated 5/11/21
The lofty state of airline loyalty programs

Trung T. Phan
Updated 5/7/21
Grocery impulse buying is having a COVID-fueled identity crisis

Kolby Hatch
Updated 5/6/21
How offices are prepping for the return of workers

Trung T. Phan
Updated 4/7/21
a16z’s ranking of 2020’s biggest marketplace platforms say a lot about the state of the world

Jacob Cohen
Updated 3/31/21
Where the hell are all the shipping containers?

Ethan Brooks
Updated 3/26/21
People bought boats like crazy last year

Zachary Crockett
Updated 3/23/21
The Masters is the Super Bowl of golf. Here’s how it’s adapting to the pandemic.

Rob Litterst
Updated 3/8/21
The pandemic is bad news for superstar cities. Here’s why.

Trung T. Phan
Updated 2/5/21
Vaccine passports are a mess. Can Big Tech clean them up?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 1/26/21
Will pharma chains capitalize on the vaccine surge?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 1/13/21
How Pfizer’s CEO and its senior team pushed the pharma giant to ready a vaccine

Trung T. Phan
Updated 12/16/20
The state of vaccine development

Trung T. Phan
Updated 12/16/20
At-home diagnostic startups are hot AF right now

Trung T. Phan
Updated 12/7/20
How the pandemic shook up this year’s turkey market

Trung T. Phan
Updated 11/25/20
Which ambitious projects were done the fastest?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 11/20/20
The pandemic has slowed the birthrate — and baby product companies are hurting

Trung T. Phan
Updated 11/17/20
With a vaccine in sight, these startups will help offices reopen

Trung T. Phan
Updated 11/17/20
Etsy’s growth hack: face masks

Trung T. Phan
Updated 11/13/20
Vaccine hype spurs massive rotation in stock

Trung T. Phan
Updated 11/10/20
As people deal with pandemic stress, the business of keeping you zen is booming

Trung T. Phan
Updated 10/19/20
Tech can’t quit remote work: Microsoft edition

Rob Litterst
Updated 10/14/20
Private coroners are suddenly in the spotlight

Michael Waters
Updated 10/13/20
Everybody’s coming after Zoom now

Nick DeSantis
Updated 10/3/20
Our pandemic pivot to Zoom Everything brought the company some big gains

Nick DeSantis
Updated 10/3/20
Zoom backgrounds are SO 3 weeks ago. Zoom deepfakes could be the next big thing

Nick DeSantis
Updated 10/3/20
The hottest campus job is ‘COVID influencer’

Michael Waters
Updated 9/29/20
Surveillance tech will be big for reopenings. Can it keep privacy concerns in check?

Nick DeSantis
Updated 9/23/20
Everything was canceled. But good luck getting that insurance money.

Michael Waters
Updated 9/23/20
This rent-a-minor-celeb app is blowing up

Michael Waters
Updated 9/23/20
Remote work is destroying America’s white-collar office economy

Trung T. Phan
Updated 9/21/20
It’s prime time for coronavirus swindlers

Nick DeSantis
Updated 9/19/20
Trends community highlights: Unexpectedly hot items for your socially distant lifestyle

Nick DeSantis
Updated 9/19/20
Holy days get the social distancing treatment

Michael Waters
Updated 9/19/20
Should the government pay people to take a COVID vaccine?

Michael Waters
Updated 9/16/20
Drive-thrus are going to look a lot different in 2021

Michael Waters
Updated 9/11/20
The multibillion-dollar school-bus business is hurting

Michael Waters
Updated 9/9/20
Wanna make that spare closet earn its keep? This startup can help

Caroline Dohack
Updated 8/12/20
Drink like Da Vinci: Italy is bringing back its 17th-century ‘wine windows’

Michael Waters
Updated 8/10/20
What’s behind the crazy market rally? A billionaire investor explains

Trung T. Phan
Updated 8/10/20
Can lipstick and underwear predict economic activity?

Caroline Dohack
Updated 8/7/20
The latest pandemic-era controversy? Microschools

Caroline Dohack
Updated 8/5/20
Put down your jack-o-lanterns. Halloween might be taking this year off.

Michael Waters
Updated 7/27/20
The hottest thing in real estate is cold storage

Michael Waters
Updated 7/27/20
What ants can teach us about fighting off pandemics

Belle Long
Updated 7/24/20
How Shopify is keeping your neighborhood bakery afloat

Michael Waters
Updated 7/23/20
Hollywood is in crisis. That spells trouble for movie-themed toys.

Michael Waters
Updated 7/21/20
End-of-life startups breathe life into grave situations

Caroline Dohack
Updated 7/17/20
Mailbox makeovers, bedtime cookies: Meet the teen entrepreneurs of the pandemic summer

Michael Waters
Updated 7/17/20
Can Google searches predict a pandemic?

Michael Waters
Updated 7/16/20
Survey results: Will you miss a rent payment due to COVID-19?

Sam Parr
Updated 7/16/20
RIP, reduced-fat peanut butter: The snack aisle is downsizing

Michael Waters
Updated 7/15/20
Tell us: Do you think you’ll miss a mortgage or rent payment because of COVID?

Sam Parr
Updated 7/15/20
These wearable plastic pods are the latest social distancing trend

Michael Waters
Updated 7/14/20
America needs higher-skilled workers. Here’s where the jobs are.

Caroline Dohack
Updated 7/14/20
Holy shi — pping containers! Look at these tiny houses

Michael Waters
Updated 7/13/20
With millions laid off, teens find jobs in unusual places

Michael Waters
Updated 7/13/20
Against all odds, we’re living in Tinder boom times

Michael Waters
Updated 7/9/20
We asked whether you’re planning to move in the next 6 months. 33% said yes.

Sam Parr
Updated 7/9/20
The tech that’s tasked with making sports safer

Caroline Dohack
Updated 7/8/20
Hostels are having a rough go at reopening

Michael Waters
Updated 7/8/20
Are you moving to another city? Tell us your story

Sam Parr
Updated 7/8/20
Which businesses got coronavirus relief money? Insights from the new data

Nick DeSantis
Updated 7/7/20
Epidemiologists are the latest hot hires

Caroline Dohack
Updated 7/7/20
Consumer spending is up, but don’t call it a comeback

Caroline Dohack
Updated 7/6/20
Alexa is the next target of our quarantine angst

Michael Waters
Updated 7/2/20
Bye-bye Bic pen, hello hand sanitizer: Corporate swag goes utilitarian

Caroline Dohack
Updated 7/1/20
Even butchers are going mobile

Michael Waters
Updated 6/29/20
Pandemic-era Roomba sales prove it: Success doesn’t happen in a vacuum

Caroline Dohack
Updated 6/26/20
Online shopping is ready for a VR makeover

Michael Waters
Updated 6/26/20
Baseball gets the green light, but its most famous snack is stuck in peanut purgatory

Belle Long
Updated 6/25/20
Once limited to workouts and errands, athleisure becomes a workwear staple

Caroline Dohack
Updated 6/23/20
AI is helping scientists sort through heaps of coronavirus research

Nick DeSantis
Updated 6/22/20
Public transit is getting the Uber Pool treatment

Michael Waters
Updated 6/22/20
Long-distance relationships only work if they’re with a dog

Michael Waters
Updated 6/19/20
Want your cheers on ESPN? There’s an app for that

Michael Waters
Updated 6/19/20
COVID baby boom? More like COVID baby bust — and more trouble for the economy

Caroline Dohack
Updated 6/18/20
Quarantine got you talking to yourself? Try a little botty language

Caroline Dohack
Updated 6/17/20
One airline’s weird strategy for raising capital in a pandemic: selling its prized artworks

Nick DeSantis
Updated 6/15/20

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