Weekly#405

After reaching $40B in revenue in record time, Amazon Web Services hints at its own reinvention geekwire.com
AWS brings the Mac mini to its cloud techcrunch.com
Facebook Buys Customer-Service Software Maker Kustomer bloomberg.com
How the US, UK and China are planning to roll out vaccines technologyreview.com
Japan is about to bring back samples of an asteroid 180 million miles away technologyreview.com
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. arstechnica.com
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 vox.com
The death and rebirth of America’s department stores, in charts vox.com
Revolut lets businesses accept online payments techcrunch.com
Grab-Singtel and Ant Group win digital bank licenses in Singapore techcrunch.com
More than 500,000 full electric cars sold so far this year in Europe theguardian.com
Singapore approves sale of lab-grown meat in world first reuters.com
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. techcrunch.com
Microsoft launches Azure Purview, its new data governance service techcrunch.com
Hulu officially launches its co-viewing feature, Watch Party techcrunch.com
Elon Musk is open to talking about merging Tesla with another car company. These are the 4 most likely candidates, experts say. businessinsider.com
Coronavirus: Vaccination ‘could become routine from 2022‘ bbc.com
Elon Musk is ‘highly confident’ SpaceX will land humans on Mars by 2026 cnbc.com
Gartner Says Global Smartphone Sales Declined 5.7% in Third Quarter of 2020 gartner.com
The Luxury E-Commerce Wars Heat Up nytimes.com