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2017

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    Weekly#245

    24 links · 2 min read

      • Eric Ries was in London at Cass Business School for talking about his new book. You can watch his inspiring talk from this periscope link. His new book is “The Startup Way” about entrepreneurial management transforms culture and drives growth. Below is the visualisation by Alli McKee. 
    • Meet Boston Dynamics’ electric powered SpotMini techcrunch.com
    • Amazon is making a ‘Lord of the Rings’ prequel series techcrunch.com
    • Alibaba’s Singles’ Day sale amassed $25.3 billion, doubling 2016 Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales combined…a 40 percent jump from last year’s figures… theverge.com
    • Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot is a parkour master techcrunch.com
    • Tesla’s big new all-electric truck – the Tesla Semi…The Tesla Semi will go 0 to 60 mph in just 5 seconds, which is incredibly fast compared to a diesel truck…”… the truck that will do everything in its power to avoid a jackknifing incident, automatically, without requiring any driver intervention. And, it’ll do it regardless of what trailer or load is attached to the back. “Jackknifing is impossible,” said Elon Musk on stage at the Tesla Semi unveiling…” techcrunch.com
    • Hours before launch, EA strips micro-transactions from ‘Star Wars: Battlefront II’ techcrunch.com
    • Google’s chatbot analytics platform Chatbase launches to public techcrunch.com
    • Comcast wants to buy Fox’s international, but it’ll have to wait for AT&T-Time Warner approval first recode.net
    • Philo streams pay TV — without sports or broadcast channels — for $16 a month recode.net
    • Facebook will live stream 47 college basketball games for free this season recode.net
    • Williams-Sonoma is buying a 3-D imaging and augmented reality startup for $112 million recode.net
    • Musical.ly, the lip-syncing video app, is going to sell for at least $800 million recode.net
    • The UK Government is investing an extra £21 million in Tech City UK uk.businessinsider.com
    • A breakdown of iPhone manufacturing costs over time uk.businessinsider.com
    • Amazon rolls out Alexa, Echo in Canada uk.businessinsider.com
    • Amazon is transforming Whole Foods into a tech store uk.businessinsider.com
    • Alexa integration with Kimpton Hotel (Source: Twitter) x.com
    • This easy hack lets you create a virtual ‘Home’ button on the iPhone X uk.businessinsider.com
    • Google Maps adds color to help you hone in on points of interest arstechnica.co.uk
    • Amazon’s Cashierless Store Is Almost Ready for Prime Time bloomberg.com
    • MariaDB coming to Azure, as Microsoft joins the MariaDB Foundation arstechnica.co.uk
    • Apple plans to add a 3D sensor to the back of the iPhone, too arstechnica.co.uk
    • Amazon Music app for Android quietly gets Chromecast support arstechnica.co.uk

     

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    Weekly#244

    18 links · 1 min read

    • China’s Tencent bought 12 percent of Snap — and everything else we learned from Snap’s earnings report recode.net
    • Uber is asking drivers if they want to provide other on-demand services recode.net
    • Razer to raise upwards of $504 million in Hong Kong IPO techcrunch.com
    • 70 years of VC innovation techcrunch.com
    • New Stars Wars and Marvel TV shows planned for Disney’s streaming service techcrunch.com
    • Project Loon delivers internet to 100,000 people in Puerto Rico engadget.com
    • UPS is converting ‘up to 1,500 delivery trucks’ to battery-electric in New York electrek.co
    • A hospital without patients politico.com
    • Logitech to shut down “service and support” for Harmony Link devices in 2018 arstechnica.co.uk
    • ‘Stranger Things’ is a real hit: 16 million Americans watched  Season Two premiere, according to Nielsen recode.net
    • Spotify has brought in a new head of PR as it gets ready for a 2018 IPO recode.net
    • Selling a House to Millennials? wsj.com
    • Disney Fleshes Out Its Streaming Plans wsj.com
    • Skyscanner acquired London social media startup Twizoo uk.businessinsider.com
    • The 3.8 billion hours of content streamed on Roku’s platform in the third quarter equates to 2.5 hours of daily watch time per user. uk.businessinsider.com
    • US smartphone shipments dip in Q3 uk.businessinsider.com
    • Disney tried to hide the Millennium Falcon with shipping containers — but it’s on Google Maps uk.businessinsider.com
    • Amazon brings the Echo to Japan uk.businessinsider.com

     

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    Weekly#243

    12 links · 1 min read

    • Broadcom plans $100bn unsolicited bid for Qualcomm ft.com
    • iOS 11 vs iOS 10: Comparison Review in UI and Interaction hackernoon.com
    • iPhone X order status: Apple is predicting a record holiday quarter…Apple says to expect record sales, between $84 billion and $87 billion…helped its market cap briefly hit $900 billion… recode.net
    • YouTube Kids update gives kids their own profiles, expands controls techcrunch.com
    • Pandora made $80M in U.S. app store revenue in Q3, booting Netflix from the top grossing spot techcrunch.com
    • How the top four cloud companies fared in Q3 uk.businessinsider.com
    • Humans Are Still Better Than AI at StarCraft—for Now…A StarCraft gamer won 4-0 in the world’s first contest between AI systems and professional human players. technologyreview.com
    • Generation Z is creating a $5 billion market for fake meat and seafood uk.businessinsider.com
    • Applying blockchain technology to online reviews blogs.lse.ac.uk
    • The space industry will be worth nearly $3 trillion in 30 years, Bank of America predicts cnbc.com
    • Facebook’s revenue per user topped $5 for the first time cnbc.com
    • BMW Says Its 2021 i Flagship Will Be Level 5 Autonomous carscoops.com
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    Weekly#242

    22 links · 2 min read

    • A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. John le Carré instagram.com
    • HBR: 3D Printing Gives Hackers Entirely New Ways to Wreak Havoc hbr.org
    • HBR: Selling Products Is Good. Selling Projects Can Be Even Better hbr.org
    • Amazon will start delivering packages into the homes of Prime members. The program is called Amazon Key. recode.net
    • …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… recode.net
    • Hulu’s CEO is going to run Sony TV, and another Fox exec is going to run Hulu recode.net
    • Delphi is one of the first automotive suppliers to acquire a self-driving software startup. Delphi has bought nuTonomy for $450 million. recode.net
    • …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… recode.net
    • 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. recode.net
    • Most Netflix customers don’t pay for other streaming services. But Hulu and HBO Now subscribers do. recode.net
    • Microsoft finally kills off the Kinect, but the tech will live on in other devices techcrunch.com
    • Apple lowers Face ID specifications to ramp up iPhone X production, report says techcrunch.com
    • Amazon debuts Cloud Cam and Key to take on Nest, August and others in home security techcrunch.com
    • Apple purchased a company with technology that would allow an iPhone to charge without being plugged in businessinsider.com
    • Apple drives native AI adoption in smartphones businessinsider.com
    • Russia will Require Cryptocurrency Miners to Register With the Government in 2018 motherboard.vice.com
    • Daimler unveils heavy-duty all-electric truck concept with ‘up to 220 miles’ range electrek.co
    • Singapore aims to be 25% solar-powered by 2025 eco-business.com
    • Balloon navigation breakthrough helps extend cell service in Puerto Rico arstechnica.com
    • LinkedIn plans to teach all its engineers the basics of using AI venturebeat.com
    • Amazon rolls out cash payments in Mexico venturebeat.com
    • 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. bloomberg.com
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    Weekly#241

    15 links · 1 min read

    • Lyft Raises $1 Billion in Round Led by Alphabet’s CapitalG wsj.com
    • Nokia partners with AWS on cloud migration, 5G and IoT strategies zdnet.com
    • 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 techcrunch.com
    • LG, Qualcomm 5G & autonomous car partnership boosts share prices cbronline.com
    • Garmin’s Speak puts Alexa-powered navigation in your car theverge.com
    • TV producers can now see how many people are watching Netflix shows recode.net
    • PayPal’s quarter exceeded expectations across the board techcrunch.com
    • Microsoft’s Market Value Hits a Dot-Com Era Milestone: $600 Billion blogs.wsj.com
    • Facebook to Test News-Subscription Sign-Up…The program will begin on Android devices only with publishers including Washington Post, the Economist wsj.com
    • Verizon’s streaming TV service reportedly delayed until spring 2018 at the earliest theverge.com
    • Blue Origin fires up its next big rocket engine for the first time theverge.com
    • 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. theverge.com
    • New neural network teaches itself Go arstechnica.com
    • Google Calendar for Web gets its first redesign since 2011 arstechnica.com
    • YouTube UK Ads Leaderboard: September 2017 thinkwithgoogle.com
  • Latest issue

    Weekly#240

    15 links · 2 min read

    • Charlie Rose : A conversation with the president of Didi Chuxing, the world’s largest ride-sharing company. charlierose.com
    • Branson’s Virgin Group invests in Hyperloop One bbc.co.uk
    • Decoding the Chinese Internet (BCG Report) slideshare.net
    • How failed OS startup Cyanogen pivoted into self-driving construction equipment recode.net
    • Report: Apple to kill Touch ID on all future iPhones thenextweb.com
    • …For Advertisers, Amazon’s NFL Telecasts Are a Promising Experiment… wsj.com
    • Alphabet Gets Approval for Giant Balloons to Restore Puerto Rico’s Wireless Service wsj.com
    • LinkedIn is finally selling autoplay video ads recode.net
    • Lyft adds in-app navigation for drivers via Google Maps techcrunch.com
    • Spotify launches an app for artists with real-time streaming data, audience demographics techcrunch.com
    • Alphabet quietly made its experimental balloon project a full-fledged corporation — a first step to a new Google spinout uk.businessinsider.com
    • “…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…” qz.com
    • “…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…” wsj.com
    • Estonia ‘first country in world able to function without physical land euronews.com
    • “…Last month a $60,000 flat in Kiev, Ukraine, became the world’s first property to be sold using a blockchain…” newscientist.com