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Weekly#405

  • 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