- Netflix launches in 130 countries, including Turkey (Hurriyet Daily News)
- Fitbit Takes 18% Stock Hit For Invading Apple’s Personal Smartwatch Space (TechCrunch)
- Lenovo Is Making The First Google Project Tango Phone (TechCrunch)
(Project Tango combines 3D motion tracking with depth sensing to give your mobile device the ability to know where it is and how it moves through space.) - Daqri’s Smart Helmet Hands On (TechCrunch)
- Nvidia Announces Another Car ‘Supercomputer’ at CES (computing power of about 150 MacBook Pro laptops that would cost about $300,000) (TechCrunch)
- Four New Elements Complete Row Seven On The Periodic Table (Fortune)
- U.S. Drone Users Number At Least 181,000 (WSJ)
- YouTube will soon support HDR video for improved color and detail (TNW)
- Microsoft will soon launch its own SIM cards for Windows 10 devices (TNW)
Self-driving car gets pulled over by self-driving police car. pic.twitter.com/0D1tX8BVa5
— Andrew Chen (@andrewchen) January 7, 2016
.@vladikoff’s suggested we show this button to Gmail users. 85% used it and 6% more verified vs control. cc/ @lukew pic.twitter.com/4u9VWl849g
— Ryan Feeley (@ryanfeeley) January 7, 2016
If you don’t get Day1 retention right, the rest doesn’t really matter… [2/2] pic.twitter.com/TUpBlHngzM
— Luke Wroblewski (@lukew) January 5, 2016
The [harsh] reality of native mobile apps. pic.twitter.com/fav7hqgiHX
— Luke Wroblewski (@lukew) January 5, 2016
Samsung semiconductors are now far more profitable than their phones.
— Horace Dediu (@asymco) January 8, 2016
iOS app revenues (Cumulative) pic.twitter.com/496eq6dDTF
— Horace Dediu (@asymco) January 6, 2016
Poster showing re-enactment of last surviving human welcoming Skynet. pic.twitter.com/Cxr5pSersb
— Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) January 7, 2016
Facebook Messenger MAUs
800 million: 1/16
700 million: 7/15
600 million: 3/15
500 million: 11/14
*New app needed for messaging: 8/14
$FB
— Scott Kessler (@KesslerSPCAPIQ) January 7, 2016
Airbus has 6Million censors. 25GB data/flight. Optimize routes, fuel saving, maintenance: IBM #CES2016 #BigData #IoT pic.twitter.com/4La42CDLBY
— Jim Harris (@JimHarris) January 7, 2016
Rey & BB-8 (bill watterson homage) https://t.co/EgxbRPfIQK pic.twitter.com/51W5e3tzkA
— Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) January 5, 2016
5 years pic.twitter.com/a23ZoXa3OL
— Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) January 6, 2016
"Netflix will spend about $5 billion on programming, more than twice as much as HBO’s estimated budget" https://t.co/ldbej9pw4Z
— Andy Weissman (@aweissman) January 5, 2016
Seems like it would be super easy for 1 airline to do 1 plane interior like the PanAm plane from 2001 and make $$$ 💸 pic.twitter.com/vvNyeIz1Hw
— Ben Tesch (@magnetbox) January 5, 2016
Median #VC fund size jumps 71% year over year. https://t.co/LBLRysupnj #venturecapital pic.twitter.com/UYiprQZYjS
— PitchBook Data (@PitchBook) January 5, 2016