- US patents hit record 333,530 granted in 2019; IBM, Samsung (not the FAANGs) lead the pack
- Facebook Backs Off Controversial Plan to Sell Ads in WhatsApp (paywall)
- Visa is acquiring Plaid for $5.3 billion, 2x its final private valuation
- Renewables will be cheaper than coal by 2026 in China – study
- 25% of users watching Netflix on their iPhones also watch Disney+
- Grubhub sale rumors highlight the state of the struggling food-delivery industry
- Twitch’s loss of top streamers impacts hours watched and streamed in Q4 2019, report says
- Mojo Vision is developing AR contact lenses
- Copilot is a subscription personal finance tracker aiming to kill Mint
- JWT The Future 100: 2020 Report [PDF]
- Michael Moritz backs Turkish grocery start-up ($40m funding into ultrafast delivery company Getir) (paywall)
- Hyundai and Kia put over $110M into UK electric delivery vehicles startup Arrival
- Alphabet Becomes Fourth U.S. Company to Reach $1 Trillion Market Value (paywall)
- Germany to invest 86 bln euros to upgrade ageing railway network
- DeepMind found an AI learning technique also works in human brains…An algorithm that learns through rewards may show how our brain does too
- These living bricks use bacteria to build themselves
- Here’s how just four satellites could provide worldwide internet