- Toshiba to Sell Part of Its Chip Business
- Google Parent Alphabet Finds New Growth Beyond Search
- Amazon Expands Into Ocean Freight
- Digital in 2017 Global Overview
- Xiaomi executive Barra joins Facebook to lead virtual reality business
- Google sales poised to overtake Microsoft in changing of the guard
- Comcast mobile phone service coming in 2017 with wireless/cable bundles
- Microsoft HoloLens: sales figures are in the ‘thousands‘
- Hydrogen turned into metal in stunning act of alchemy that could revolutionise technology and spaceflight
- A Challenge to the ‘Secular Stagnation’ Theory, A new paper argues aging populations have not had a negative effect on growth—and one reason may be robots
- Google brings AI to Raspberry Pi
- Details on Snap’s $25 billion IPO are expected to be revealed next week
- Netflix and Amazon dropped millions on these Sundance movies everyone will be talking about
January 2017 archive
Weekly#202
- Three New Predictions for Automation and Jobs
- Tesla Boosts Range of All-Electric Model S to 335 Miles
- Google Uses Its Search Engine to Hawk Its Products
- Amazon is crushing Walmart, eBay, and Target in the growing mobile shopping space (…Amazon’s mobile app is increasing its penetration rate in the US, with 50% of US online shoppers now on its app…)
- Amazon just launched virtual ‘Dash’ buttons for one-click buying from the homepage
- Video is the new HTML
- Report Digital Transformation Initiative Professional Services Industry [PDF]
- Apple files a billion-dollar royalty suit against Qualcomm
- Machines that are capable of making precise operations inside the human eye will make it possible to perform entirely new procedures.
- Tesla’s second generation Autopilot could reduce crash rate by 90%, says CEO Elon Musk
- Top 20 Growth Hacking Articles from Issues 1–4 of growth.email
- Google’s former king of search is joining Uber to lead the engineering team
- Google Maps may soon tell you how bad the parking is at your destination
- 10 million self-driving cars will be on the road by 2020
- World Economic Forum Videos
- Strategic Update: The Future of Innovation
- Artificial Intelligence
Weekly#201
- Atlassian to Buy Trello for $425 Million
- Facebook to Test Mid-Roll Video Ads
- Amazon Echo -> 4% of American households… Apple’s Siri handles over 2bn commands a week, and 20% of Google searches on Android-powered handsets in America are input by voice (Economist)
- 7 bot trends to watch in 2017
- Just one autonomous car will use 4,000 GB of data/day.. vehicles will generate and consume roughly 40 terabytes of data for every eight hours of driving.
- All electric trains in the Netherlands now run on wind energy
- Google quietly shut its internet drone project last year
- Fitbit reportedly held talks to acquire Jawbone
- iOS revenue to surpass $1 trillion this year
- Why Norway is killing FM radio
- Deep Learning at Gilt
- Amazon Web Services has opened a London region
- Netflix’s content boss explained the reason he bet big on ‘The Crown,’ its Golden Globe winner
- Apple captures more than 40% of wireless headphones market in the US.
- An average of 2,700 (!) apps were released daily in the Google Play Store, compared with 1,800 in the Apple App Store.
- Amazon Web Services quietly buys cybersecurity startup Harvest.ai to bolster cloud protections
- An Essential Guide to WeChat Mini Apps
- For Non-Tech Companies, if You Can’t Build It, Buy a Start-Up
- Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager
- The mobile app gold rush may be over
Weekly#200
- The Robotic Grocery Store of the Future Is Here
- 5 Big Predictions for Artificial Intelligence in 2017
- Apple Confirms $1 Billion Investment in SoftBank’s $100 billion Vision Fund
- Tesla sold a total of 76,230 cars and sport-utility vehicles last year.
- A Third Of Consumers Say They Would Exchange Personal Info For Content
- Holiday Spending on Mobile Games Nears $1 Billion
- Hyundai Shows Off Wearable Robots to Help Paraplegics, Elderly
- SpaceX Launch Video : Team, Passion, Culture (Youtube)
- Google’s A.I. is training itself to count calories in food photos
- Bose is building ride-smoothing tech for autonomous cars
- PlayStation 4 sales surpass 53M, Uncharted 4 moves 8.7M
- Alexa: Amazon’s Operating System
- Amazon delivered over 2 bn items globally in 2016
- Minecraft has now sold over 25 million copies on PC and Mac
- A.I. Downs expert human fighter pilot in dogfight simulation
- Insurance firm Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance is making 34 employees redundant and replacing them with IBM’s Watson Explorer AI
- Ford plans to take Amazon’s Alexa for a ride
- Apple’s App Store Sales Top $28 Billion
- Amazon Brings Fire TV Experience to Third-Party TV Sets
(In a move mirroring Roku TV, Amazon is partnering with lower-priced TV brands including Seiki and Westinghouse) - Wind power overtakes coal for first time in UK