- Google moonshot businesses are losing money, analysts say. Just how much they are losing is up for debate, with analysts estimating operating losses ranging from $500 million to as much as $4 billion this year. (WSJ)
- Twitter’s 136-page handbook for politicians who want to tweet (QZ) (PDF)
- The Global Competitiveness Report 2015-2016 [World Economic Forum]
- Big Data & Estimation
September 24 : Foursquare’s Prediction: Apple Will Sell 13–15 Million iPhones This Weekend (link)
September 28 : Apple Sells 13 Million New iPhones at Launch ( Foursquare after statement) (WSJ) - Qatar plans to invest $35 billion in the U.S. over the next five years as it seeks to diversify assets. (Bloomberg)
- Virtual Reality as a Therapy Tool
Doctors say immersing patients in simulated situations helps them confront their worst fears (WSJ)
People with this type of #personality are more likely to become #entrepreneurs http://t.co/EpISlrS3sG pic.twitter.com/g8NchQW16E
— World Economic Forum (@wef) September 27, 2015
What it means to be great http://t.co/VeI348HAzM pic.twitter.com/dEFEeiIm64
— Horace Dediu (@asymco) September 29, 2015
“If you invest in growth before retention, you’re renting users, not acquiring” — @gillianim https://t.co/Jak9KjSlVK pic.twitter.com/S2u3BfGLsb
— Sten Tamkivi (@seikatsu) September 29, 2015
3D Touch and Live Photos are both very strong upgrade drivers. And (like Apple Pay) extremely hard to copy if you don’t own the whole stack
— Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) September 28, 2015
Big Auto want to emulate Tesla in doing OTA updates. Existing value chains come in way. http://t.co/4IgecGhdsu pic.twitter.com/y1NaDGFIoI
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) September 29, 2015
If the iPhone business were an ATM, this weekend it would have dispensed cash at a rate of ~$35,000 per second.
— Clay Bavor (@claybavor) September 28, 2015
Latest iPhone took 5.5 hours to sell a million units. The 3GS took 72
— Horace Dediu (@asymco) September 29, 2015
iPhone 6S BOM ~ $245 $AAPL $INVN $NXPI $SWKS $AVGO $QRVO http://t.co/khLFvXXzdi pic.twitter.com/BKScKOtr1a
— Craig Bujnowski (@craigbuj) September 26, 2015
interesting times for Semi’s $ATML $ALTR $BRCM $OVTI pic.twitter.com/MsUqnIo9fA
— Craig Bujnowski (@craigbuj) September 25, 2015
Silicon Valley Hierarchy of Needs 2.0 Is this you or someone you know? pic.twitter.com/OGekAiDbGg
— Brian Solis (@briansolis) September 25, 2015
TouchID now so fast that it makes the iPhone lock screen pretty irrelevant.
— John Lilly (@johnolilly) September 26, 2015
this is my new favorite photo of all time pic.twitter.com/v8Qs6TeXZf
— Wayne Dahlberg (@waynedahlberg) September 26, 2015
The #PaaS market will grow from $1.7B in 2014 to $68.3B by 2026, attaining a 36% CAGR. — @Wikibon
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) September 30, 2015
Q: Are most on-demand businesses actually disruptive? A: No. http://t.co/OEMHpMlJ6T pic.twitter.com/z469x9Zsrg
— Harvard Biz Review (@HarvardBiz) September 30, 2015
When nobody sticks to their lane… “Amazon Confirms It Will Stop Selling Apple TV, Chromecast” https://t.co/9cQS4etT8p
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) October 1, 2015
>50% of data on most news sites is ads http://t.co/UX9YjwCWc0 w/ ads -16.3 MB w/o ads-3.5 MB http://t.co/hyeEJzQOl2 pic.twitter.com/3WKeErPYDJ
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) October 1, 2015