This week's wrap-up brings you fresh headlines from around the web, highlighting new market data and insights featured on blogs, press releases, and news articles.

Not surprisingly, COVID-19 remains a dominant theme across industry categories, impacting everything from DIY home improvement trends to food gifting and more.

The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, also known as COVID-19, has now become a pandemic, leaving all healthcare institutions and government officials baffled, and researchers and scientists on high alert.

There’s no question the economic fallout from COVID-19 has been severe, and the impact continues to mount across the world. Daily news headlines are full of tragic stories and dire predictions, but are there any relative bright spots in the market during this gloomy period?

See the latest blog posts and press releases from our market research publishers covering a wide range of markets from payments to plastics to pets.

Also featured in this week's post — news articles citing our research from Forbes and many other outlets.

Wireless transfer of power or electrical charging of battery-powered equipment and devices without the requirement of wired electric connection is termed wireless charging. It is often referred to as inductive charging, in which power is transferred wirelessly through electromagnetic induction. 

This $117 billion U.S. business, which encompasses basic janitorial services, pest control, and other building maintenance, is huge but very competitive, comprised of mainly small operators, including 36,000 franchised outlets. Competitors run the gamut, from sole proprietors to giants such as ABM Industries with $6.5 billion in revenues. This is a low-investment business that’s easy to enter, and many do.

Check out the latest blog posts and press releases from our market research publishers.

In this post, we also highlight recent news articles that cite our research including AdAge, Newsday, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and others.

“Had [the US] done more testing from the very beginning and caught cases earlier,” said Dr. Nuzzo of Johns Hopkins, “we would be in a far different place.”

Our analysts are reexamining the world through the lens of COVID-19 to provide clarity to business leaders across industries.

This week, Packaged Facts discussed Easter food gifting, The Freedonia Group highlighted four fast-growing outdoor living products, and Simba Information provided free coverage of the impact of COVID-19 on the education market.

Due to the rapid changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Simba Information newsletters, Educational Marketer and Electronic Education Report, are sharing free news coverage related to the impact of COVID-19 on the K-12 and higher education markets.