Weekly#242

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. John le Carré
HBR: 3D Printing Gives Hackers Entirely New Ways to Wreak Havoc
HBR: Selling Products Is Good. Selling Projects Can Be Even Better
Amazon will start delivering packages into the homes of Prime members. The program is called Amazon Key.
…Amazon will own the bigger piece of e-commerce sales this year owning about 44 cents out of every e-commerce dollar spent in the U.S., up from 38 cents the previous year, according to new estimates from public companies from research firm eMarketer…
Hulu’s CEO is going to run Sony TV, and another Fox exec is going to run Hulu
Delphi is one of the first automotive suppliers to acquire a self-driving software startup. Delphi has bought nuTonomy for $450 million.
…The average price for a smartphone in North America rose 4 percent to over $400 in the third quarter of 2017 compared with a year earlier. In China, it rose 15 percent to $327 in that same time…
Square is expanding its lending business through partners to try to reach millions of more small businesses. Merchants using delivery service Caviar will also be eligible for Square Capital loans.
Most Netflix customers don’t pay for other streaming services. But Hulu and HBO Now subscribers do.
Microsoft finally kills off the Kinect, but the tech will live on in other devices
Apple lowers Face ID specifications to ramp up iPhone X production, report says
Amazon debuts Cloud Cam and Key to take on Nest, August and others in home security
Apple purchased a company with technology that would allow an iPhone to charge without being plugged in
Apple drives native AI adoption in smartphones
Russia will Require Cryptocurrency Miners to Register With the Government in 2018
Daimler unveils heavy-duty all-electric truck concept with ‘up to 220 miles’ range
Singapore aims to be 25% solar-powered by 2025
Balloon navigation breakthrough helps extend cell service in Puerto Rico
LinkedIn plans to teach all its engineers the basics of using AI
Amazon rolls out cash payments in Mexico
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
Saudis Are Talking to Amazon, Alibaba Over New City, Prince Says…in talks with some of the world’s biggest companies to develop technologies that will power life in the $500 billion city he’s planning to build on the Red Sea.

Weekly#241

Lyft Raises $1 Billion in Round Led by Alphabet’s CapitalG
Nokia partners with AWS on cloud migration, 5G and IoT strategies
When $100BN is not enough… Softbank is planning Vision Fund sequels…SoftBank could commit as much as $880 billion to tech investments in the coming years
LG, Qualcomm 5G & autonomous car partnership boosts share prices
Garmin’s Speak puts Alexa-powered navigation in your car
TV producers can now see how many people are watching Netflix shows
PayPal’s quarter exceeded expectations across the board
Microsoft’s Market Value Hits a Dot-Com Era Milestone: $600 Billion
Facebook to Test News-Subscription Sign-Up…The program will begin on Android devices only with publishers including Washington Post, the Economist
Verizon’s streaming TV service reportedly delayed until spring 2018 at the earliest
Blue Origin fires up its next big rocket engine for the first time
August Home, one of the buzziest names in smart locks, has been acquired by Assa Abloy, the world’s biggest lock maker and the owner of a multitude of lock brands, including Yale.
New neural network teaches itself Go
Google Calendar for Web gets its first redesign since 2011
YouTube UK Ads Leaderboard: September 2017

Weekly#240

Charlie Rose : A conversation with the president of Didi Chuxing, the world’s largest ride-sharing company.
Branson’s Virgin Group invests in Hyperloop One
Decoding the Chinese Internet (BCG Report)
How failed OS startup Cyanogen pivoted into self-driving construction equipment
Report: Apple to kill Touch ID on all future iPhones
…For Advertisers, Amazon’s NFL Telecasts Are a Promising Experiment…
Alphabet Gets Approval for Giant Balloons to Restore Puerto Rico’s Wireless Service
LinkedIn is finally selling autoplay video ads
Lyft adds in-app navigation for drivers via Google Maps
Spotify launches an app for artists with real-time streaming data, audience demographics
Alphabet quietly made its experimental balloon project a full-fledged corporation — a first step to a new Google spinout
“…Instead of hiring a professional photographer, models, and a studio, retailers only have to take a picture of the garment laid out on a plain surface. The AI can generate a human figure, then predict how the garment would fit. Since there is no real-life model, the AI can generate any kind of body or skin type…”
“…Alibaba will nearly triple spending on research and development, to more than $15 billion over the next three years, as the Chinese e-commerce company seeks to keep pace with Western rivals such as Alphabet Inc. and Amazon.com Inc…”
Estonia ‘first country in world able to function without physical land
“…Last month a $60,000 flat in Kiev, Ukraine, became the world’s first property to be sold using a blockchain…”

OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2017: Setting the foundations for the digital transformation from innovationoecd

Weekly#239

Why is there no Nobel Prize in technology?
Scientists have built a new soft robot that can heal itself
LinkedIn to launch Talent Insights, a new analytics tool, as it dives deeper into data
Amazon brings Echo and Alexa to India and soon Japan, its first markets in Asia
The Pixel market share chart Google
Dropbox Redesigned After 10 Years With a Focus on Creativity
Satya Nadella – Charlie Rose
Google Hardware Event 2017
Amazon has hired some 1,000 newly minted M.B.A.s in the past year
Facebook quietly launches Mac and PC Workplace Chat apps with screen share
Amazon Is Testing Its Own Delivery Service to Rival FedEx and UPS
…Amazon is on track to sell more than 70 million Echos through 2022, according to BI Intelligence estimates…
A new app called Dust aims to change that by automatically investing your spare change in bitcoin, litecoin, or ethereum.
AIM is shutting down on December 15 after 20 years
Netflix shares rise as company announces subscription price hike
Google Cloud instances can now use 96 vCPUs and 624GB of memory
AI and VR will help students get more from a K-12 education