Strava on Thursday announced a slew of new features and updates at its annual Camp Strava event, as the San Francisco-headquartered company doubles down on efforts to make its social fitness app stickier both for free and premium subscribers — with artificial intelligence (AI) playing a central role. One of the perennial complaints emanating from the Strava community is that users sometimes cheat to attain lofty leaderboard positions on the app. Strava already has some mechanisms in place to let users manually flag dubious leaderboard activity, and last year, the company updated its algorithms to "make leaderboards more credible."
Wizehire, an end-to-end hiring solution for growing small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), recently released its 2024 Small Business Report. The study surveyed 1,000 small business owners and operators, ranging from 10 to 200 employees. This research provides insights into hiring challenges, business growth, and people management in the evolving landscape of small businesses in 2024.