• McKinsey: The Next Normal
• The great hack attack: SolarWinds breach exposes big gaps in cyber security
• Deloitte 2021 Global Marketing Trends
• AWS introduces new Chaos Engineering as a Service offering
• Global Competitiveness Report Special Edition 2020
• Global chip shortage threatens production of laptops, smartphones and more
• Battery prices have fallen 88 percent over the last decade
• E-commerce became commerce…Online shopping made up 14 percent of all retail sales in the US last quarter as in-store retail flagged.
• Walmart will use fully driverless trucks to make deliveries in 2021
• Google Waives $1.5 Billion DeepMind Loan as AI Costs Mount
• Floating ‘mini-nukes’ could power countries by 2025, says startup
• China just brought moon rocks back to Earth for the first time in its history
• Google to shut down Android Things, a smart home OS that never took off
• “None of us were ready” to manufacture genetic vaccines for a billion people
• Amazon’s answer to SpaceX Starlink delivers 400Mbps in prototype phase
• AI controlled a US military aircraft for the first time
• OneWeb launches 36 satellites to join its global broadband constellation on orbit
• UiPath files confidential IPO paperwork with SEC
• WhatsApp to bring voice and video calls to desktop next year
• Among Us’ is coming to Xbox in 2021
• A successful experiment gets us one step closer to a quantum internet
• Twitter launches its voice-based ‘Spaces’ social networking feature into beta testing
• Walmart to pilot test livestreamed video shopping on TikTok
• F1 engine makers are testing sustainable fuel…Formula 1 aims to hit net zero carbon emissions within 10 years.
• How Pfizer Delivered a Covid Vaccine in Record Time

Zoom was adding 5,000-6,000 servers (on AWS) a night as they scaled in the early days of the pandemic ? #reInvent

— Rachel Dines @ #reinvent (@RachelDines) December 15, 2020

• Goodreads: Best books of 2020
• Disney+ Could Hit 260 Million Subscribers by 2024, CEO Bob Chapek Says
• Outlook 2021: Sustaining the Outperforming Covid Recovery
• Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity
• Apple Fitness+ launches this coming Monday at $9.99 per month
• Facebook hit with massive antitrust lawsuit from 46 states
• SpaceX’s Starship has flown a record 12.5 km into the air—and then crashed
• Adobe just released the last Flash update ever…Adobe will stop supporting Flash on December 31st, 2020, and it will block Flash content from running on January 12th, 2021.
• Amazon’s redesigned Fire TV software starts rolling out today
• Seoul-based payment tech startup CHAI gets $60 million from Hanhwa, SoftBank Ventures Asia
• Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics for nearly $1B
• Coronavirus, election results, Kobe Bryant and Zoom among Google’s top 2020 search trends in US and world
• App stores to see 130 billion downloads in 2020 and record consumer spend of $112 billion
• With over 1 billion users, Chrome is both a browser and a major platform. The Chrome Web Store hosts more than 250,000 extensions and themes with 4 million Chrome extensions downloaded every day
• McKinsey estimates that global digital-health revenues—from telemedicine, online pharmacies, wearable devices and so on—will rise from $350bn last year to $600bn in 2024
• Sony to buy AT&T’s anime business for $1.18 billion to expand global footprint
• The New Consumer Conversation in an Era of Uncertainty

• After reaching $40B in revenue in record time, Amazon Web Services hints at its own reinvention
• AWS brings the Mac mini to its cloud
• Facebook Buys Customer-Service Software Maker Kustomer
• How the US, UK and China are planning to roll out vaccines
• Japan is about to bring back samples of an asteroid 180 million miles away
• Warner Bros. will release entire 2021 film slate in theaters and on HBO Max… includes Dune, Matrix 4, and Godzilla vs. Kong, among other titles.
• More online retailers are following Amazon’s lead in making it easier to drop off items at brick-and-mortar locations near your home, no box or shipping label necessary
• The death and rebirth of America’s department stores, in charts
• Revolut lets businesses accept online payments
• Grab-Singtel and Ant Group win digital bank licenses in Singapore
• More than 500,000 full electric cars sold so far this year in Europe
• Singapore approves sale of lab-grown meat in world first
• Stripe announces embedded business banking service Stripe Treasury…The company is partnering with banks to offer a banking-as-a-service API. In other words, Stripe clients will be able to provide bank accounts to their customers — the service is invite-only for now.
• Microsoft launches Azure Purview, its new data governance service
• Hulu officially launches its co-viewing feature, Watch Party
• Elon Musk is open to talking about merging Tesla with another car company. These are the 4 most likely candidates, experts say.
• Coronavirus: Vaccination ‘could become routine from 2022‘
• Elon Musk is ‘highly confident’ SpaceX will land humans on Mars by 2026
• Gartner Says Global Smartphone Sales Declined 5.7% in Third Quarter of 2020
• The Luxury E-Commerce Wars Heat Up