- Disney Plus in the third quarter to reach a total of 152 million and 221 million across all its services…Disney has finally surpassed Netflix in overall streaming subscribers
- Disney is increasing the price of its ad-free Disney+ subscription to $10.99
- Microsoft has decided to open a store in India’s Open Network for Digital Commerce
- “…AWS saw revenues climb 36 percent from the prior year, while Microsoft reported its cloud biz saw year-over-year growth of 40 percent…”
- Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022
- Spotify starts selling live music tickets to fans directly
- Everything Samsung Unpacked at its August 2022 Event
- The collapse in cryptocurrencies is easing supply of the most sought after watches on the second-hand market, depressing prices for hard-to get-Patek Philippe and Rolex models.
- Amazon has become the third-biggest digital advertising company behind Google and Facebook, hitting $31 billion in ad revenue in 2021
- DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report – June 2022
- AI, ML, and Data Engineering InfoQ Trends Report—August 2022
- “…Among the hundreds of new car models for sale in the United States this year, only about 30 can be purchased with a manual transmission. Electric cars, which now account for more than 5 percent of car sales, don’t even have gearboxes…“
- “…Amazon’s Roomba Deal Is Really About Mapping Your Home… the maps also represent a wealth of data for marketers. The size of your house is a pretty good proxy for your wealth. A floor covered in toys means you likely have kids. A household without much furniture is a household to which you can try to sell more furniture. This is all useful intel for a company such as Amazon which, you may have noticed, is in the business of selling stuff…“
- Pearson looks to NFTs to profit from second-hand textbook sales
- The global semiconductor shortage is causing more than 100,000 vehicles to be dropped from North American production schedules this week.
- Impacts of climate change on pathogenic human diseases
- 99 percent of Netflix subscribers haven’t tried its games yet…Netflix’s games see 1.7 million daily users
- Crypto-driven GPU crash makes Nvidia miss Q2 projections by $1.4 billion
- Delivery Hero Architecture Reviews
- Each tribe lead presents four slides for 15 minutes, including:
- An up-to-date architecture diagram following our common representation standard, with major past and planned changes highlighted.
- Suggested updates to the global technical debt tracker
- Interesting learnings generated in the last six months
- Proposed changes to our reliability manifesto or architecture guideline
