April 2019

There were 4 posts published in April 2019 (this is page 1 of 1).

Weekly#321

  • BCG: The Most Innovative Companies 2019
  • Built Robotics brings self-driving to construction
  • Shopify is expanding its efforts in brick-and-mortar retail with the launch of its new retail hardware collection.
  • Comcast is in talks to sell its 30% stake in Hulu to Disney
  • Amazon’s warehouse-worker tracking system can automatically fire people without a human supervisor’s involvement
  • Automation Could Wipe Out Almost Half of All Jobs in 20 Years
  • A Excavator Operator at Bauma in Germany digging at a jobsite in South Korea
  • Future Of Retail: How Brands Should Handle Automation In 2019
  • 20 Examples Of Machine Learning Used In Customer Experience
  • Lettuce-Farming Robots Might Grow Your Next Salad
  • NASA and FEMA are practicing what would happen if an asteroid hits the Earth
  • Apple Considered Purchasing Intel’s Smartphone Modem Chip Business

Weekly#320

  • Qualcomm  stock surged after the announcement that the company has settled its  lawsuits with Apple
  • Sila Nano’s battery tech is now worth over $1 billion with Daimler partnership and $170 million investment
  • Netflix added 9.6M subscribers in Q1, with revenue of $4.5B.. .148.9 million paid streaming subscribers…
  • AI is helping retro games look like new
  • YouTube is finally coming back to Amazon’s Fire TV devices
  • Someone Listed a T-Rex on eBay, and Paleontologists Are Furious
  • Hindsight 2070: by  15 experts, “What do we do now that will be considered unthinkable in 50 years?” Here’s what they told us.” By VOX
  • How do you hire a great growth marketer?
  • Uber’s self-driving car unit raises $1B from Toyota, Denso and Vision Fund ahead of spin-out
  • Microsoft Acquires Express Logic To Boost IoT
  • GSMA, specified that 5G’s latency should be 1 millisecond, which is 50 times better than 4G’s current 50 milliseconds.
  • Apple revamping Find My Friends & Find My iPhone in unified app, developing Tile-like personal item tracking
  • West Virginia Will Use Blockchain Voting in the 2020 Presidential Election
  • 46 Corporations Working On Autonomous Vehicles
  • Intel quits 5G modem business hours after Apple settles with Qualcomm

Weekly#319

  • The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany’s Empire of Engines
  • Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa
  • Disney+ streaming service launches on November 12, with a price of $6.99 per month…The Mandalorian Will Be Available on Disney+…The Simpsons will stream exclusively…
  • Skype now lets you share your Android or iOS phone screen on video calls
  • Uber spent $457 million on self-driving and flying car R&D last year
  • DHL launches Africa eShop app for global retailers to sell into Africa
  • Computer Scientists Play Key Role in First Image of Black Hole
  • Google’s Next Big Money Maker Could Be the Maps on Your Phone…Google Maps is an indispensable part of life for more than 1 billion people, who use it to commute, explore new cities or find a hot new restaurant
  • Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today
  • Gartner and IDC agree: Global PC shipments fell to exactly 58.5 million in Q1 2019
  • Google Chrome engineers want to block some HTTP file downloads


Weekly#318

  • Falcon Heavy’s first real launch on Sunday is the dawn of a new heavy-lift era in space
  • Skype now supports up to 50 group call participants, topping rivals
  • Amazon reportedly readying its Alexa-powered answer to AirPods
  • Amazon’s Rise in Ad Searches Dents Google’s Dominance : WSJ
  • Apple Music Overtakes Spotify in Paid U.S. Subscribers: WSJ
  • 8 Top Findings in Gartner CMO Spend Survey 2018-19
  • Elon Musk: Self-driving Teslas are going to make their owners money by competing with Uber, Lyft
  • Useable energy stored in different materials, by weight
  • Amazon will launch thousands of satellites to provide internet around the world
  • New battery will give electric cars over 600 miles of range