Eric Ries was in London at Cass Business School for talking about his new book. You can watch his inspiring talk from this periscope link. His new book is “The Startup Way” about entrepreneurial management transforms culture and drives growth. Below is the visualisation by Alli McKee.
Amazon is making a ‘Lord of the Rings’ prequel series
Alibaba’s Singles’ Day sale amassed $25.3 billion, doubling 2016 Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales combined…a 40 percent jump from last year’s figures…
Tesla’s big new all-electric truck – the Tesla Semi…The Tesla Semi will go 0 to 60 mph in just 5 seconds, which is incredibly fast compared to a diesel truck…”… the truck that will do everything in its power to avoid a jackknifing incident, automatically, without requiring any driver intervention. And, it’ll do it regardless of what trailer or load is attached to the back. “Jackknifing is impossible,” said Elon Musk on stage at the Tesla Semi unveiling…”
Broadcom plans $100bn unsolicited bid for Qualcomm
iOS 11 vs iOS 10: Comparison Review in UI and Interaction
iPhone X order status: Apple is predicting a record holiday quarter…Apple says to expect record sales, between $84 billion and $87 billion…helped its market cap briefly hit $900 billion…
YouTube Kids update gives kids their own profiles, expands controls
Pandora made $80M in U.S. app store revenue in Q3, booting Netflix from the top grossing spot
Humans Are Still Better Than AI at StarCraft—for Now…A StarCraft gamer won 4-0 in the world’s first contest between AI systems and professional human players.
Generation Z is creating a $5 billion market for fake meat and seafood
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. John le Carré
HBR: 3D Printing Gives Hackers Entirely New Ways to Wreak Havoc
HBR: Selling Products Is Good. Selling Projects Can Be Even Better
Amazon will start delivering packages into the homes of Prime members. The program is called Amazon Key.
…Amazon will own the bigger piece of e-commerce sales this year owning about 44 cents out of every e-commerce dollar spent in the U.S., up from 38 cents the previous year, according to new estimates from public companies from research firm eMarketer…
Hulu’s CEO is going to run Sony TV, and another Fox exec is going to run Hulu
Delphi is one of the first automotive suppliers to acquire a self-driving software startup. Delphi has bought nuTonomy for $450 million.
…The average price for a smartphone in North America rose 4 percent to over $400 in the third quarter of 2017 compared with a year earlier. In China,it rose 15 percent to $327 in that same time…
Square is expanding its lending business through partners to try to reach millions of more small businesses. Merchants using delivery service Caviar will also be eligible for Square Capital loans.
Most Netflix customers don’t pay for other streaming services. But Hulu and HBO Now subscribers do.
Microsoft finally kills off the Kinect, but the tech will live on in other devices
Apple lowers Face ID specifications to ramp up iPhone X production, report says
Amazon debuts Cloud Cam and Key to take on Nest, August and others in home security
Apple purchased a company with technology that would allow an iPhone to charge without being plugged in
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
Saudis Are Talking to Amazon, Alibaba Over New City, Prince Says…in talks with some of the world’s biggest companies to develop technologies that will power life in the $500 billion city he’s planning to build on the Red Sea.
Lyft Raises $1 Billion in Round Led by Alphabet’s CapitalG
Nokia partners with AWS on cloud migration, 5G and IoT strategies
When $100BN is not enough… Softbank is planning Vision Fund sequels…SoftBank could commit as much as $880 billion to tech investments in the coming years
LG, Qualcomm 5G & autonomous car partnership boosts share prices
Garmin’s Speak puts Alexa-powered navigation in your car
TV producers can now see how many people are watching Netflix shows
PayPal’s quarter exceeded expectations across the board
Microsoft’s Market Value Hits a Dot-Com Era Milestone: $600 Billion
Facebook to Test News-Subscription Sign-Up…The program will begin on Android devices only with publishers including Washington Post, the Economist
Verizon’s streaming TV service reportedly delayed until spring 2018 at the earliest
Blue Origin fires up its next big rocket engine for the first time
August Home, one of the buzziest names in smart locks, has been acquired by Assa Abloy, the world’s biggest lock maker and the owner of a multitude of lock brands, including Yale.
Lyft adds in-app navigation for drivers via Google Maps
Spotify launches an app for artists with real-time streaming data, audience demographics
Alphabet quietly made its experimental balloon project a full-fledged corporation — a first step to a new Google spinout
“…Instead of hiring a professional photographer, models, and a studio, retailers only have to take a picture of the garment laid out on a plain surface. The AI can generate a human figure, then predict how the garment would fit. Since there is no real-life model, the AI can generate any kind of body or skin type…”
“…Alibaba will nearly triple spending on research and development, to more than $15 billion over the next three years, as the Chinese e-commerce company seeks to keep pace with Western rivals such as Alphabet Inc. and Amazon.com Inc…”
Estonia ‘first country in world able to function without physical land
“…Last month a $60,000 flat in Kiev, Ukraine, became the world’s first property to be sold using a blockchain…”
Google Cloud adds support for more powerful Nvidia GPUs. “…For companies working with machine learning workloads, having access to GPUs in the cloud provides them with flexibility to pay for what they use with by the minute pricing, and the sustained pricing model means if they end up running the GPUs for a sustained period of time, they get up to a 30 percent discount, depending on the usage. In other words, they don’t get whacked with a huge bill because they like the service…”
Apttus is putting artificial intelligence to work on contract management
Why Google is spending $1.1 billion to acq-hire 2,000 HTC engineers
When is the internet going to change TV ads for real?
“…More than 30 million people are now paying for a subscription streaming service in the U.S., which pushed streaming revenue up 48 percent, to $2.5 billion, in the first half of the year. Streaming now accounts for 62 percent of the U.S. music business…”
Tesla’s remote upgrades to its vehicles during Hurricane Irma are the future of tech
Spacex will call global internet satellite network Starlink
Jack Ma: We need to stop training our kids for manufacturing jobs
