GE’s Software Future Starts With Selling Computer Hardwaret o help industrial customers move data between their equipment and its cloud services
General Electric to Buy Two Tech Startups for Its Digital Business
GE is acquiring Wise.io Inc., a machine learning firm, and Bit Stew Systems Inc., which enables the ‘ingestion’ of masses of data for industrial applications
Let’s build an Airport – How to estimate large scale projects
Apple, Spotify Face Upstart Rival in Streaming Music: China’s Tencent
(Joox music-streaming service)
Amazon reportedly building app to connect truckers with shippers, possibly putting pressure on Convoy
‘Super Mario Run’ Jumps to Top of App-Store Charts
Azure in the car: Microsoft and TomTom partner on location services for U.S. automakers
Subscriptions offer a more stable base of recurring revenue than traditional licenses, but Adobe hasn’t simply been replacing one form of sales for the other.
Another one bites the dust: Cisco discontinues its $1B cloud initiative as AWS, Azure and others expand
Air-launched rocket puts eight CYGNSS microsatellites in orbit to study hurricanes
Rise of the robot music industry : AI is transforming music streaming, talent spotting, promotion and even composition
The Next Fashion Trend: Weather Forecasting At a recent class at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, students were asked—and promised a Dunkin’ Donuts gift card for the right answer to—the question: When should a Los Angeles store stock swimsuits?
How Amazon Gets Its Holiday Hires Up to Speed in Two Days (Touch screens and robots help to prepare new hires for warehouse jobs)
... shrink the time it takes to train new hires to as little as two days, compared with up to six weeks for a conventional warehouse job …The shorter training period saves Amazon money, and could give the company room to offer higher wages as it seeks to expand its workforce about 40% by adding 120,000 temporary workers at its U.S. warehouses for the peak sales season that runs roughly from November through December.
Netflix Now Lets You Download, But Many Top Shows Are Off Limits
Atlassian has opened an engineering office in Mountain View in a bid to attract talent from the area’s tech giants.
Indian Startup Plans to Land on the Moon in January 2018
Meet Starbucks’ next CEO: Here’s what former colleagues say about tech vet Kevin Johnson (…$84 billion global coffee corporation prioritizes new technology opportunities at more than 25,000 stores in 75 countries…)
Starbucks has more customer money on cards than many banks have in deposits
Forget personal assistants, The real battle is for voice UIs
“We are as much a tech company as we are a pizza company,” he told the audience, pointing out that of the 800 people working at headquarters, fully 400 work in software and analytics“
Twitter: @justinshanes : Amazon thinks my recent humidifier purchase was merely the inaugural move in a newfound hobby of humidifier collecting.
Amazon in Talks to Buy Dubai’s Souq.com in $1 Billion Deal
Skyscanner acquired for £1.4 billion by China’s Ctrip
Twitter: The % of mobile-only shoppers is astonishing. 50%+ for many of the top 15 retailers.
Twitter: Two-thirds (CEOs) said they believe technology will create greater value in the future than their workforce will, and 44% believe that automation, artificial intelligence and robotics will make people “largely irrelevant” in the years to come.
Twitter: Friday through Dec 25, estimated 1,500,000,000 packages will be delivered in the US by UPS+FEDEX+USPS (source: @parcelpending via @CNBC)
Stripe Inc., whose software is used by businesses to accept and track digital payments, will be valued at $9.2 billion in a new funding round that is being completed, the company said.
Universities’ AI Talent Poached by Tech Giants (Google, Baidu, Facebook lure away top computer science researchers responsible for training students)
Google Brain AI is now using its own language to translate between languages
Apple raked in a record 91 per cent of all smartphone profits in the third quarter
Japan plans supercomputer to leap into technology future
Samsung Charges Into Auto Tech With $8 Billion Deal for Harman
Jaguar Shows Its Concept for a Luxury Electric SUV
Siemens to Buy Mentor Graphics Amid Push to Digitize Heavy Industry
China Internet Giant Tencent’s Profit Jumps on Games Gains ($1.55 billion net profit in latest quarter)
Airbnb moves beyond accommodation into tours and immersive trips
Airbnb’s share of London lets triples in a year, agents say 7.6% of overnight stays in capital now via gig economy website
Skype Users Make Around 3 Billion Minutes Of Calls Every Day
You’re probably shopping for the most nutritious produce in the wrong aisle
Amazon is going to sell cars onlineAccording to Reuters, Fiat Chrysler will sell three models — the 500, the 500L, and the Panda — on Amazon’s Italian site at a price that is up to 30% cheaper than other dealerships. The service will only be available in Italy.
Tesla, SolarCity Merger Gets Shareholder Approval, Here’s everything you need to know about the solar roof Tesla plans to build with SolarCity
Amazon Challenges Netflix by Taking Video Service Global
Starry, an internet service provider (ISP) that promises to deliver super-fast internet access wirelessly, launched its first closed beta in the Boston area this week.
Apple has a secret team working to make the iPhone’s camera a portal to augmented reality
French technology group Sigfox, which is building a wireless network for connected devices, has launched a new funding round to raise €150m for further international expansion.
“The feeling when you realize the robots will steal your job.”
Ikea uses 1 percent of the planet’s lumber (The Weird Economics Of Ikea)
“Friday, the American Academy of Pediatrics validated my experiment, recommending that children younger than 18 months get zero screen time, and those ages 2 to 5 be limited to one hour a day—half of its prior recommendation.”
IT Industry Outlook Holds Steady, Software vendors and other IT firms say they’re on track to meet or surpass revenue goals this year
Uber’s Self-Driving Truck Makes Its First Delivery: 50,000 Beers
AT&T Undercuts Cable TV With $35 Internet Streaming Service
Microsoft could be unveiling Teams, its Slack competitor, next week, Previously known as Skype Teams, Microsoft has built a Web-based chat system.
This week, Apple will announce a new Apple TV feature that allows people to discover new TV shows from a single app, USA Today reports.
Scientists want to send a team of robots into space to build a telescope
The Japanese car manufacturer reports that the number of charging points in the country has surged past 40,000, compared to fewer than 35,000 petrol stations.
From Atlanta to Beijing, these are the world’s busiest airports
The Global Competitiveness Index 2015–2016 Rankings (World Economic Forum)
Top 10 (Switzerland, Singapore, United States, Germany, Netherlands, Japan, Hong Kong, Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom)
Comcast’s NBCUniversal Invests Another $200 Million in BuzzFeed
Facial-recognition apps use smartphone snapshots to verify identity of customers
‘Grand Theft Auto’ is so influential, the company’s stock just exploded after teasing a new game
Netflix posted robust subscriber growth for the quarter, adding 370,000 net memberships in the U.S. and 3.2 million internationally, for a total of about 3.6 million. 86.7 million subscribers worldwide.
Lessons Learned From Scaling Uber To 2000 Engineers, 1000 Services, And 8000 Git Repositories
A recent CityLab report suggests that driverless car technology for evacuations might be a good solution for minimizing loss of life and the amount of destruction that occurs during hurricane season.
Meet the Giant Robot That Builds Boeing’s Airplane Wings
“… But as Schadt has learned, it’s not enough to plumb the depths of an individual’s DNA. It requires a universe of data—exabytes worth—to detect patterns in a population, apply machine learning, find the network of mutations responsible for disease, and do something about it. The bigger these data sets become, the more accurate and powerful the models and the predictors become…”
Tesla Motors Inc. said it plans to charge buyers of its newest cars $8,000 to activate autonomous-driving technology (WSJ)
Microsoft Corp.’s cloud-computing businesses kicked into high gear as sales of the software giant’s Azure service more than doubled.
AT&T Inc. is in advanced talks to acquire Time Warner Inc (CNN,HBO, Warner Bros), according to people familiar with the matter, a deal that would create a new hallmark in the rapidly converging realms of media, communications and the internet.
Nintendo’s next console, Switch, is a console/tablet hybrid coming in March
Tablet system docks to connect to HDTV, comes with detachable controllers.
Nissan’s autonomous chairs commence a public trial in Japan 2017
A group of Japanese scientists from Kyushu University has successfully turned mouse skin cells into baby mice without the use of egg cells.
Facebook Live broadcasting up 4X since May, gets TV and outdoor promo
Microsoft Fiscal Year 2017 First Quarter Earnings Conference Call, Slides
Researchers are using 3D motion capture to document kung fu before it disappears
Larry Ellison says Oracle’s new cloud will crush Amazon — but the rest of the world isn’t so sure
AWS is 10-times bigger than its next 14 competitors combined
New Q2 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, IBM and Google combined control well over half of the worldwide cloud infrastructure service market.
Within 24 hours of plugging in her Amazon Echo, Carla Martin-Wood says she felt they were best friends. “It was very much more like meeting someone new,” she says.