Take a moment to scan through the latest headlines from Packaged Facts and Simba Information. This week, analysts covered the "stealth health" movement, instructional materials adoption, the cost of market research, and much more.

Be sure to catch up on this week's analysis from Packaged Facts and The Freedonia Group. Articles covered innovation in pressure sensitive tapes, gift card trends, and more.

Note: The following is an excerpt from the white paper "Are EVs equipped enough to overthrow the dominance of vehicles based on ICE?" by BIS Research, a global market intelligence, research, and advisory company that focuses on emerging technology trends that are likely to disrupt the market. 

The total weight loss market is now worth more than $72 billion, and a growing share of it takes place online and digitally. Technology and increased usage of the Internet and smartphones have changed the way Americans lose weight, and how they access weight loss programs. New companies like Noom have entered the market with apps in attempts to “disrupt” long-established players like Weight Watchers, NutriSystem, and Jenny Craig.

April showers bring May market analysis! Take a moment and catch up on all the latest from Marketresearch.com's publishers, including an article from our CEO and Founder Robert Granader.

Check out the latest from Marketresearch.com's publishing divisions, including analysis highlighting growth in iron ore mining, a look at how Congress is curtailing existing regulations on Wall Street, insights into the importance of market research, and much more.

The catalyst in the smart weapons market is the global pressure to reduce civilian causalities during conflict. The concept of carpet-bombing entire cities or an area increased civilian causalities. World War I resulted in around 7 million civilian deaths, and World War II resulted in around 50 million civilian deaths.

In the case of conventional bombs, the proximity to the target and the probability to neutralize the target were directly proportional to each other. This also exposed airborne assets to enemy fire, and the risk of airplanes being shot down was very high.

Hop on top of the latest insights from Packaged Facts, The Freedonia Group, and Freedonia Focus Reports. This week, analysts covered tax services, home organization trends, the race to 5G, the global motorcycle market, and more.  

The global motorcycle market – which includes not only internal combustion engine (ICE) motorcycles but ICE and/or electric mopeds,  scooters, and bikes – is expected to grow 4.4% per year through 2022, according to a white paper from The Freedonia Group. This marks an improvement over the anemic industry growth that characterized the period between 2012-2017.

An increase in the number of smartphones and connected devices and an increase in data traffic has led to congestion in the existing network, thus, increasing the demand for high bandwidth for various end-users.

This has paved the way for the network that can provide high speed and uninterrupted data at low latency. The introduction of the fifth generation (5G) communication network is expected to overcome speed barriers and enable faster data transmission.