- “If AWS were to grow at a 40%-45% clip near term and decelerate to 30% in the out years, and Amazon’s retail business was to grow gross profits by 15% over the longer-term, AWS would indeed be larger than Amazon retail (on a gross profit basis) in the year 2024,” said Keirstead and Sandler. (Business Insider) (Twitter link)
- Qualcomm’s China Struggles Continue as It Fails to Reach Patent Deals (WSJ)
- Satellite pictures of a remote and treeless northern steppe reveal colossal earthworks — geometric figures of squares, crosses, lines and rings the size of several football fields, recognizable only from the air and the oldest estimated at 8,000 years old. (Nytimes)
- Nintendo on Friday is launching a popular Japanese videogame in North America, the next chapter for a franchise that has raked in more than $2 billion in sales of games, toys and more. (WSJ)
- Researchers at Florida State University have developed a new artificial material that functions similar to the process of photosynthesis and can open up new avenues to create a sustainable energy source.
WhatsApp is now almost certainly handling 2x the message volume of the global SMS system
— Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) November 4, 2015
Kickstarter reaches $2bn in pledges for 93,555 successful projects, releases detailed stats https://t.co/pnOpeZTC1i pic.twitter.com/HZTTsMQFys
— Ross Dawson (@rossdawson) November 5, 2015
Business 2.0 in 2006—"10 people who don't matter"
#10: Mark Zuckerberg
Also—Reed Hastings
https://t.co/xA92vfk4mf pic.twitter.com/xzmEgVB3eJ
— Bobby Goodlatte (@rsg) November 5, 2015
Marc Newson believes the Apple Watch will be an iPhone-level game-changer within 5 years https://t.co/BsCdvmDGk1
— Horace Dediu (@asymco) November 5, 2015
About 1/7th of the world's population logs into Facebook each day.
Whoa: https://t.co/yQ2XUojczI $FB pic.twitter.com/gzNFoUHcs0
— StockTwits (@StockTwits) November 4, 2015
"In the near future, drones could become as important to the way we live and work as smartphones have".
https://t.co/vo1ykNrabb
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) November 6, 2015
$YHOO could have bought $FB for $1B but tried to quibble w price at the 11th hour. $FB now worth $306B. Short sightedness knows no bounds…
— Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) November 6, 2015
"For the first time ever, a person’s life has been saved by gene editing." https://t.co/92uKKzwGQr pic.twitter.com/mey118md0L
— Chris Dixon (@cdixon) November 5, 2015
10 years pic.twitter.com/m3wiCxOD0w
— Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) November 7, 2015
1995: mobile will never be big
2000: will never replace landlines
2005: will never go online
2015: will never replace PCs
— Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) November 6, 2015