2017

Happy New Year

My presentation is scheduled January 23 at David Game College Training Room / you can check the Eventbrite

• SoftBank and its co-investors have successfully acquired at least 13 percent of Uber recode.net
• Researchers at Stanford have trained an AI to predict a person’s political leanings based on his or her neighbourhood and choice of vehicle futurism.com
• Netflix’s ‘Bright’ reached 11M viewers in its first three days, according to Nielsen…“…the first episode of Stranger Things 2 reached 15.8 million people in its first three days, while the second season premiere of The Crown reached nearly 3 million viewers in the same time frame…” techcrunch.com
• 2018 Preview: Satellite industry 2.0…OneWeb is shooting for 2021 to achieve 2.5 gigabits per second direct to a rural home… fiercewireless.com
• Trends in drone technology [PDF] pwc.com
• Apple apologizes for iPhone slowdown drama, will offer $29 battery replacements for a year theverge.com
• China begins regulating QR code payments theverge.com
• YouTube has been deactivated on the Fire TV theverge.com
• Ripple briefly overtakes Ethereum as the No. 2 crypto uk.businessinsider.com
• Hyundai and Kia are developing AI assistants for cars uk.businessinsider.com
• Britain’s digital banks: profitable or just popular? reuters.com
• Google is making moves towards mobile-first search uk.businessinsider.com
• The Leader’s Guide to Corporate Culture hbr.org
• Google Search: Year in 2017 trends.google.com.tr
• Why digital transformation is now on the CEO’s shoulders mckinsey.com
• Management is about handling complexity. Leadership is about creating simplicity. — Peter Docker
• WeChat App to Become Official ID wsj.com
• Tinder has 2.5m paid users ft.com

My presentation is scheduled January 23 at David Game College Training Room / you can check the Eventbrite

• Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15 techcrunch.com
• Facebook will use facial recognition to tell you when people upload your picture recode.net
• ‘Sunday Night Football’ was the highest-rated TV show this year, but its audience is smaller than last year …On average, 18.6 million people watched it this year and 19.3 million people watched it last year. recode.net
• How Netflix is trying to rewrite movie marketing with Bright theverge.com
• YouTube reportedly signs new music licensing deals with UMG and Sony Music theverge.com
• YouTube TV delays Apple TV and Roku apps until early 2018 theverge.com
• You can now send your Amazon Echo Look selfies for crowdsourced fashion advice theverge.com
• WhatsApp ordered to stop sharing user data with Facebook theverge.com
• Eric Schmidt stepping down as Alphabet’s executive chairman to become a ‘technical advisor’ techcrunch.com
• Instagram now lets you share live videos through direct messages techcrunch.com
• Facebook has taken its first real steps into the music business recode.net
• Are biometrics a safe way to speed up airport security? recode.net
• China ride-hail giant Didi Chuxing has raised $4 billion recode.net
• Sequoia is raising a new fund that could top $6 billion, as pressure from SoftBank’s mega-fund increases on Silicon Valley VCs recode.net
• Uber has hired former Orbitz CEO Barney Harford as its first-ever COO recode.net
• Fjord 2018 Trends trends.fjordnet.com
• Personal service robot population, 2000-2050 futuretimeline.net
• Industry 4.0 – Internet of Manufacturing slideshare.net

• T-Mobile plans pay-TV service in 2018 fueled by Layer3 TV acquisition techcrunch.com
• SpaceX launches a reused Dragon atop a reused Falcon 9 for the first time techcrunch.com
• Alexa skills top 25,000 in the U.S. as new launches slow techcrunch.com
• UX: Hide/Show Passwords storify.com
• UX How to with Luke Wroblewski youtube.com
• Apple has finally turned on its podcast analytics feature recode.net
• Here come the Facebook pre-roll video ads recode.net
• Apple picks up a new space drama from the creator of ‘Battlestar Galactica’ techcrunch.com
• Google Searches for Path Back to China With Artificial-Intelligence Lab wsj.com
• Why Apple’s Shazam acquisition could be a big deal for the HomePod bgr.com
• SoftBank to Invest Around $500 Million More in OneWeb Satellite-Internet Venture wsj.com
• WSJ: “…$390 Million funding will enable  the supplier of a laser technology (vertical-cavity-surface-emitting lasers, or VCSELs) used in its iPhone X’s facial-recognition capabilities, to speed up production and boost its R&D efforts, Apple said…” wsj.com
• Facebook is paying WWE to stream some professional wrestling recode.net
• Anyone can now build augmented reality face masks inside Facebook. Facebook is opening up its AR platform to everyone recode.net
• Disney is acquiring Fox’s film and TV divisions for $52.4 billion…Disney details overarching direct-to-consumer plan possible through Fox deal…”…Iger added that this will allow Hulu to “become an even more viable competitor” to existing services, likely referencing Netflix and Amazon Prime Video without naming them directly. He also said that Disney will, of course, be “flowing more content in Hulu’s direction” now that it owns a controlling 39 percent majority stake…“…Hulu has 32 million subscribers (April 2017) techcrunch.com
• Disney CEO Wagers That Traditional TV Can Pave Way to Future bloomberg.com
• Disney Is About to Become the ‘Walmart of Hollywood bloomberg.com
• Andreessen Horowitz has a new, $450 million bio fund techcrunch.com
• Andrew Ng’s Landing.ai wants to bring artificial intelligence to the manufacturing industry, starting with Foxconn techcrunch.com
• Nvidia and construction giant Komatsu partner on AI for job site safety techcrunch.com
• China’s CCTV surveillance network took just 7 minutes to locate a person…“…There are some 170 million CCTV cameras across the country, and that’s tipped to grow more than three-fold with 400 million more set to be installed by 2020…” techcrunch.com
• Elon Musk’s Boring Company is reportedly starting to dig 12.4-mile tunnel in Maryland next month electrek.co
• A robot can print this $64,000 house in as few as 8 hours — take a look inside uk.businessinsider.com
• David Attenborough Warns: Sixth Mass Extinction Is Imminent inverse.com
• China Blocks Foreign Companies from Mapping Its Roads for Self-Driving Cars thedrive.com
• ‘World’s First’ Solar-Powered train to begin operation in Australia electrek.co
• Japan’s Yamato plans automated facility to beat labour shortage reuters.com
• JWT 2018 :The Future 100 jwtintelligence.com

• The U.S. suit against AT&T’s purchase of Time Warner likely won’t end until after May recode.net
• 2017 was the year digital ad spending finally beat TV…“…Digital ad spending reached $209 billion worldwide — 41 percent of the market — in 2017, while TV brought in $178 billion — 35 percent of the market — in 2017. That’s according to Magna, the research arm of media buying firm IPG Mediabrands…”
• Sony has sold over 70 million PS4 consoles, 2 million VR headsets techcrunch.com
• Compass gets $450M from SoftBank; real estate portal now valued at $2.2B techcrunch.com
• Google’s mobile search results now include videos of celebs answering your questions techcrunch.com
• Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 focuses on AI, VR and battery life techcrunch.com
• G.E. Cuts Jobs as It Navigates a Shifting Energy Market nytimes.com
• The Hidden Player Spurring a Wave of Cheap Consumer Devices: Amazon nytimes.com
• When AI is made by AI, results are impressive techxplore.com
• a16z next 10 years youtube.com
• YouTube to Launch New Music Subscription Service in March bloomberg.com
• Google and Facebook dominate digital advertising — and they now account for 25% of all ad sales, online or off uk.businessinsider.com
• Amazon has opened a new research facility in the British university city of Cambridge with a wall made almost entirely out of Amazon Echo devices…The new “development centre” will be home to about 400 engineers who will work on Amazon’s Alexa assistant and drone innovation… uk.businessinsider.com
• Dropbox’s CEO credits his success to a habit he’s passed on to his executive team uk.businessinsider.com
• Amazon may be getting ready to go on a digital media buying spree uk.businessinsider.com
• DeepMind AI needs mere 4 hours of self-training to become a chess overlord…AlphaGo Zero needed three days to train up in Go; AlphaZero needed just eight hours. arstechnica.com
• Japan eyes startup visa program to lure foreign businesses asia.nikkei.com
• Walmex expands Wi-Fi in Mexican stores, pushing online shopping reuters.com

• Amazon Plans to Send Alexa to the Office wsj.com
• Netflix’s ‘Skip Intro’ Button Makes TV Ever More Like an App theatlantic.com
• Microsoft is bringing clever tabs to every Windows 10 app theverge.com
• Hulu’s new UI and live TV service are now on Samsung’s 2017 smart TVs theverge.com
• Amazon will let Alexa developers use voice recognition to personalize apps theverge.com
• Google’s AI knows when a stranger is looking at your phone theverge.com
• AWS launches GuardDuty, its new intelligent threat detection service techcrunch.com
• Airbnb launches payment splitting for group trips techcrunch.com
• Google is officially 100% sun and wind powered – 3.0 gigawatts worth electrek.co
• Verizon says it will have 5G service in five cities by the end of next year theverge.com
• aws re:invent product announcements aws.amazon.com
• Google is making a computer vision kit for Raspberry P theverge.com
• Google May Reunite With Nest as It Takes on Amazon wsj.com
• Ginkgo Bioworks, ‘the organism company,’ is now worth over $1 billion recode.net
• SpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy launch will now take place in 2018 techcrunch.com
• AT&T’s LTE-M Button is basically a programmable 4G Amazon Dash Button for businesses techcrunch.com
• Volvo’s car subscription service sounds like good way to get the new XC40 techcrunch.com
• Amazon’s AWS Cloud9 IDE lets you write, test, and debug code in your browser thenextweb.com
• Google Assistant can now locate a handyman near you thenextweb.com

AWS re:Invent

• QZ What I learned from Jeff Bezos after reading every Amazon shareholder letter work.qz.com
• Apple’s new ad is a clever comeback to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s iPad putdown work.qz.com
• The Department of Justice is using AT&T’s own argument for buying Time Warner to try to stop the deal recode.net
• Infographic from Recode: Complex web of self-driving and ride-sharing relationships recode.net
• Tesla’s new supercar will cost at least $200,000 recode.net
• Tesla’s electric Semi truck starts at $150,000, reservations now live techcrunch.com
• Two years after going public, Square is now worth more than Twitter recode.net
• A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm washingtonpost.com
• As Chip Makers Consolidate, Marvell Will Buy Cavium in $6 Billion Deal nytimes.com
• VPN provider TunnelBear expands into password management with RememBear app venturebeat.com
• Amazon unveils AI consulting program for cloud customers
  “…Called the Amazon ML Solutions Lab, the program will provide customers with access to machine learning experts from Amazon who can help them tackle business problems using purpose-built intelligent models…” venturebeat.com
• HBR: How the Most Successful Teams Bridge the Strategy-Execution Gap hbr.org
• Google Lens will soon get top-tier placement in the Google Assistant app arstechnica.co.uk
• BMW Joins Race to Secure Cobalt for Electric-Vehicle Batteries bloomberg.com
• Why experiments are critical to your digital transformation linkedin.com
• Facebook introduces a Messenger plugin for business websites techcrunch.com
• Twitter is testing Bookmarks, a feature to privately flag Tweets for later techcrunch.com
• Tencent Just Overtook Facebook in Market Value: Chart bloomberg.com
• China’s Tencent takes 12 percent stake in Snap as shares plunge reuters.com
• Amazon seeks staff in European insurance push uk.reuters.com
• Toutiao, a Chinese news app that’s making headlines.“…Its 120m daily readers spend an average of 74 minutes a day on the app…” economist.com
• The Hidden Forces Behind Toutiao: China’s Content King blog.ycombinator.com