2017

• NBA, Take-Two to Create Professional Videogame League (‘NBA 2K eLeague’) wsj.com
• Twitter added 2 million new users in the quarter, and now claims 319 million monthly active users. recode.net
• Snap has a $1 billion cloud services deal with Amazon, too recode.net
• Consumer Watchdog asks California to take Uber’s self-driving trucks off the road recode.net
• Airbnb reportedly in talks to acquire luxury rental startup (which offers short-term rentals at villas, mansions and other ultra-luxe homes) bizjournals.com
• The man building flying cars for Larry Page wants to reinvent the way you prepare dinner businessinsider.com
• Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sees the music industry’s next ‘gigantic growth’ coming from devices like Echo businessinsider.com
• Netflix dominates Saturdays — here’s how it stacks up against TV networks the rest of the week businessinsider.com
• The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding wired.com
• Forget Coding—Here’s The Skill You Need Most When You Start Your Career fastcompany.com
• Spotify analyzed a year’s worth of data to create your perfect playlist for snow, sun, and rain qz.com
• Sony’s TVs Will Be the First With Google Assistant Inside wired.com
• …Using these mashups, the idea is that scientists will be able to take a few of your skin cells, grow miniature versions of all your major organs, and put them on a chip. Then doctors can test out the best compounds for whatever disease you might have—not in a mouse, but in a mini-you. “This will enable a new era of personalized medicine… wired.com
• UPS drivers don’t turn left—and it saves them 10 million gallons of gas a year qz.com
• The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it’s like a 1960s time capsule qz.com
• Floating train at 2000 km/h set to store 10% of Dutch electricity ecn.nl
• These “Smart Glasses” Adjust To Your Vision Automatically smithsonianmag.com
• Scientists Discover How To Make Tires From Trees, Grass minnesota.cbslocal.com
• Bank of America tests totally automated, employee-free branches tampabay.com
• ING’s agile transformation mckinsey.com

• Facebook Tunes Into Television’s Market (The social network is developing an app for television set-top boxes, hoping to tap more ad dollars, $70 billion TV ad market) wsj.com
• Mozilla kills off open source IoT project zdnet.com
• Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk Endorse 23 Principles for AI inverse.com
• A little-known part of Amazon is growing fast — and directly competes with Google and Facebook businessinsider.com
• PayPal’s CEO reveals the 2 key trends that are driving the fintech revolution businessinsider.com
• Snapchat files for a $3 billion IPO theverge.com
• The State of Sales & Marketing at the 50 Fastest-Growing B2B Companies slideshare.net
• Scientists have invented paper that you can print with light, erase with heat, and reuse 80 times qz.com
• The Booming Demand for Commercial Drone Pilots theatlantic.com
• PSA: The PlayStation 4 will get external HDD support with firmware 4.50 thenextweb.com
• iPhone 8 concept reimagines the home button with a Touch Bar-like interface thenextweb.com
• Disposable drone could one day save your life thenextweb.com
• Smart Cities, How 5G can help municipalities becomes vibrant smart cities [PDF] newsroom.accenture.com
• The Most Innovative Companies 2016 bcgperspectives.com
• Spurious Correlations tylervigen.com
• Competing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence bcgperspectives.com
• The voice-first user interface has gone mainstream recode.net
• The UX of Voice: The Invisible Interface dtelepathy.com
• Working from home? Google wants to create a drone to go to meetings for you recode.net
• Snap has a $2 billion contract with Google for cloud services recode.net
• Facebook’s AI now lets you search for photos by their content theverge.com
• Google is killing its experimental Hands Free payment app theverge.com

• Toshiba to Sell Part of Its Chip Business wsj.com
• Google Parent Alphabet Finds New Growth Beyond Search wsj.com
• Amazon Expands Into Ocean Freight wsj.com
• Digital in 2017 Global Overview slideshare.net
• Xiaomi executive Barra joins Facebook to lead virtual reality business reuters.com
• Google sales poised to overtake Microsoft in changing of the guard ft.com
• Comcast mobile phone service coming in 2017 with wireless/cable bundles arstechnica.com
• Microsoft HoloLens: sales figures are in the ‘thousands‘ theinquirer.net
• Hydrogen turned into metal in stunning act of alchemy that could revolutionise technology and spaceflight independent.co.uk
• 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 blogs.wsj.com
• Google brings AI to Raspberry Pi bbc.com
• Details on Snap’s $25 billion IPO are expected to be revealed next week businessinsider.com
• Netflix and Amazon dropped millions on these Sundance movies everyone will be talking about businessinsider.com

• Three New Predictions for Automation and Jobs wsj.com
• Tesla Boosts Range of All-Electric Model S to 335 Miles wsj.com
• Google Uses Its Search Engine to Hawk Its Products wsj.com
• 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…) businessinsider.in
• Amazon just launched virtual ‘Dash’ buttons for one-click buying from the homepage recode.net
• Video is the new HTML ben-evans.com
• Report Digital Transformation Initiative Professional Services Industry [PDF] accenture.com
• Apple files a billion-dollar royalty suit against Qualcomm techcrunch.com
• Machines that are capable of making precise operations inside the human eye will make it possible to perform entirely new procedures. technologyreview.com
• Tesla’s second generation Autopilot could reduce crash rate by 90%, says CEO Elon Musk electrek.co
• Top 20 Growth Hacking Articles from Issues 1–4 of growth.email medium.com
• Google’s former king of search is joining Uber to lead the engineering team businessinsider.com
• Google Maps may soon tell you how bad the parking is at your destination businessinsider.com
• 10 million self-driving cars will be on the road by 2020 businessinsider.com
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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

• The Robotic Grocery Store of the Future Is Here technologyreview.com
• 5 Big Predictions for Artificial Intelligence in 2017 technologyreview.com
• Apple Confirms $1 Billion Investment in SoftBank’s $100 billion Vision Fund wsj.com
• Tesla sold a total of 76,230 cars and sport-utility vehicles last year. wsj.com
• A Third Of Consumers Say They Would Exchange Personal Info For Content mediapost.com
• Holiday Spending on Mobile Games Nears $1 Billion wsj.com
• Hyundai Shows Off Wearable Robots to Help Paraplegics, Elderly pcmag.com
• SpaceX Launch Video : Team, Passion, Culture (Youtube) youtube.com
• Google’s A.I. is training itself to count calories in food photos popsci.com
• Bose is building ride-smoothing tech for autonomous cars engadget.com
• PlayStation 4 sales surpass 53M, Uncharted 4 moves 8.7M polygon.com
• Alexa: Amazon’s Operating System stratechery.com
• Amazon delivered over 2 bn items globally in 2016 business-standard.com
• Minecraft has now sold over 25 million copies on PC and Mac neowin.net
• A.I. Downs expert human fighter pilot in dogfight simulation popsci.com
• Insurance firm Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance is making 34 employees redundant and replacing them with IBM’s Watson Explorer AI theguardian.com
• Ford plans to take Amazon’s Alexa for a ride usatoday.com
• Apple’s App Store Sales Top $28 Billion wsj.com
• 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) wsj.com
• Wind power overtakes coal for first time in UK ft.com

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