• 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

• 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

• 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

 

• 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

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