A Walmart-Microsoft acquisition could be a boon for e-commerce companies that want alternatives to the digital advertising duopoly of Facebook and Google.
What a Walmart-Microsoft bid for TikTok could mean for e-commerce|Anna Hensel|August 28, 2020|Digiday
The pandemic’s forced stay-at-home orders was a huge boon to Netflix, adding 26 million global subscribers in the first half of this year, compared to 12 million during the same period last year.
After years of ‘too much TV,’ the pandemic means there’s now barely enough|Aric Jenkins|August 27, 2020|Fortune
The coronavirus pandemic has been a boon for the test proctoring industry.
Software that monitors students during tests perpetuates inequality and violates their privacy|Amy Nordrum|August 7, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Yet another potential boon for targeted drug delivery is nanotechnology, whereby medical nanorobots have now been used to fight incidences of cancer.
How AI Will Make Drug Discovery Low-Cost, Ultra-Fast, and Personalized|Peter H. Diamandis, MD|July 23, 2020|Singularity Hub
The real boon is that even statements about arithmetic formulas, called metamathematical statements, can themselves be translated into formulas with Gödel numbers of their own.
How Gödel’s Proof Works|Natalie Wolchover|July 14, 2020|Quanta Magazine
The story of fluoridation reads like a postmodern fable, and the moral is clear: a scientific discovery might seem like a boon.
Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers|Michael Schulson|July 27, 2016|DAILY BEAST
Apple is already positioning egg freezing as a boon to women at the company.
Don’t Be Fooled by Apple and Facebook, Egg Freezing Is Not a Benefit|Samantha Allen|October 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Adding vehicles to the grid could be a boon to vehicle and fleet owners in several ways.
Adding Vehicles to the Grid|The Daily Beast|October 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Now they do business year round, which has been a boon in times of economic crisis.
Saying Goodbye to the Salvage Saviors of Giglio|Barbie Latza Nadeau|July 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Boon Clatterbuck throwing his whiskey bottle away, Jack Teagarden almost clearing his throat.
Murray Kempton on The Homecoming of Willie Mays|Murray Kempton|March 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Men behold their boon companions fall, yet onward they dash with closed ranks, themselves the next victims.
Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive|Alf Burnett
It is supposed that the discomfort thus caused to them will compel them to grant the boon of rain.
The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. I (of 2)|W. Crooke
It seems that this boon had been neglected or forgotten by the good folk of Gainsborough.
Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers|William Edward Winks
No force seems capable of inducing the upper villages to use the boon intended for them.
Italian Alps|Douglas William Freshfield
Even as he spoke there came a damsel riding hard on a palfrey, and she cried with a loud voice on Sir Tor to grant her a boon.
Stories of the Days of King Arthur|Charles Henry Hanson
British Dictionary definitions for boon (1 of 2)
boon1
/ (buːn) /
noun
something extremely useful, helpful, or beneficial; a blessing or benefitthe car was a boon to him
archaica favour; requesthe asked a boon of the king
Word Origin for boon
C12: from Old Norse bōn request; related to Old English bēn prayer
British Dictionary definitions for boon (2 of 2)
boon2
/ (buːn) /
adjective
close, special, or intimate (in the phrase boon companion)