Weekly#201

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  • Atlassian to Buy Trello for $425 Million wsj.com
  • Facebook to Test Mid-Roll Video Ads wsj.com
  • 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) economist.com
  • 7 bot trends to watch in 2017 venturebeat.com
  • 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. networkworld.com
  • All electric trains in the Netherlands now run on wind energy engadget.com
  • Google quietly shut its internet drone project last year wired.co.uk
  • Fitbit reportedly held talks to acquire Jawbone venturebeat.com
  • iOS revenue to surpass $1 trillion this year flipboard.com
  • Why Norway is killing FM radio news.fastcompany.com
  • Deep Learning at Gilt tech.gilt.com
  • Amazon Web Services has opened a London region geekwire.com
  • Netflix’s content boss explained the reason he bet big on ‘The Crown,’ its Golden Globe winner businessinsider.com
  • Apple captures more than 40% of wireless headphones market in the US. x.com
  • An average of 2,700 (!) apps were released daily in the Google Play Store, compared with 1,800 in the Apple App Store. insights.prioridata.com
  • Amazon Web Services quietly buys cybersecurity startup Harvest.ai to bolster cloud protections geekwire.com
  • An Essential Guide to WeChat Mini Apps chinainternetwatch.com
  • For Non-Tech Companies, if You Can’t Build It, Buy a Start-Up nytimes.com
  • Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager khoslaventures.com
  • The mobile app gold rush may be over techcrunch.com