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Weekly#174

  • “The other big change coming for any industrial plant is the ability to take data from a single factory, upload it to the cloud and then gain the ability to access the data from anywhere. This means that experts in certain processes no longer have to travel from manufacturing site to manufacturing site to troubleshoot or improve things. Instead of going to the data, it can come to them”. (link) (Source : Stacey Knows Things)
  • Facebook Messenger adds end-to-end encryption in a bid to become your primary messaging app (Tech Crunch)
  • The virtual reality era has arrived, and three major players — Sony, Facebook and Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC — are setting out to enchant consumers with one-of-a-kind experiences. (Nikkei)
  • How Hardware-as-a-Service will save IoT (TechCrunch)
  • What will happen to global economics in the next 34 years (Oxford University Press Blog)
  • Virtual reality could become an $80B industry by 2025: Goldman (cnbc)
  • A NASA spacecraft has arrived at the solar system’s largest planet after a picture-perfect orbital insertion.NASA’s Juno space probe ended a five-year, 1.7-billion mile trek to Jupiter on Monday, nailing a do-or-die braking burn to shave its speed and settle into orbit around the largest planet in the solar system. (Seeker)
  • German churches now offer free and secure wifi hotspots (QZ)

Weekly#173

  • Apple Inc. is in talks to acquire Tidal, a streaming-music service run by rap mogul Jay Z, according to people familiar with the matter.Apple is exploring the idea of bringing on Tidal to bolster its Apple Music service because of Tidal’s strong ties to popular artists such as Kanye West and Madonna. (WSJ)
  • Jury Says Oracle Should Pay $3 Billion in Damages to Hewlett Packard Enterprise (WSJ)
  • According to a new report from Re/Code, the streaming music service is claiming that Apple has rejected a new version of its app because of “business model rules” and stated that Spotify must use Apple’s billing system.Spotify general counsel Horacio Gutierrez explained the company’s stance in a recent letter to Apple:“This latest episode raises serious concerns under both U.S. and EU competition law,” Gutierrez wrote. “It continues a troubling pattern of behavior by Apple to exclude and diminish the competitiveness of Spotify on iOS and as a rival to Apple Music, particularly when seen against the backdrop of Apple’s previous anticompetitive conduct aimed at Spotify … we cannot stand by as Apple uses the App Store approval process as a weapon to harm competitors.” (AppAdvice)
  • 10 Facebook Messenger Secrets You Need to Know (gizmodo)
  • Top 10 Tech Jobs for 2016 (Slideshare)
  • Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies (World Economic Forum)1. Nanosensors and the Internet of Nanothings
    2. Next Generation Batteries
    3. The Blockchain
    4. 2D Materials
    5. Autonomous Vehicles
    6. Organs-on-chips
    7. Perovskite Solar Cells
    8. Open AI Ecosystem
    9. Optogenetics
    10. Systems Metabolic Engineering
  • Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant can now order millions of items (CNET)
    Just tell your Echo: “Alexa, order Old Spice deodorant” or (hopefully not yelling across the house) “Alexa, order Charmin toilet paper.”Alexa previously was limited to reordering items someone had already purchased or recommending company-selected printers or laptops through a service called Amazon’s Choice. All the items now available for purchase must be eligible for Prime, Amazon’s membership service that includes unlimited two-day shipping. New items are being added daily to the list.

    Items ineligible for purchase through Alexa include apparel, shoes, jewelry, watches, Amazon Fresh, Amazon Prime Pantry, Amazon Prime Now and add-on items.

  • Bank of America Trends in Consumer Mobility Report [PDF]
  • Burger-flipping robot invasion is headed to the Bay Area. A few years ago, startup Momentum Machines unveiled a robot that could churn out 400 burgers an hour, and now, Tech Insider reports, the company is creating a restaurant concept around it. (recode)
  • The urban sidewalk kiosks from Sidewalk Labs will sport a battery of sensors to monitor cities, traffic and suspicious packages.

    The free Wi-Fi kiosks that Alphabet’s urban innovation division Sidewalk Labs is selling — similar to those already on the streets of New York — will come with eyes, ears and a host of environmental, air and digital sensors to give the tech giant an unprecedented snapshot of urban life, according to documents obtained by Recode.

    The documents, which formed part of Sidewalk Labs’ pitch to cities participating in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Smart City Challenge, show that Alphabet — Google’s parent company — wants to monitor pedestrian, bike and car traffic, track passing wireless devices, listen to street noise and use the kiosks’ built-in video cameras to identify abandoned packages. Each kiosk will also generate an estimated $30,000 a year for the company from digital advertising. (recode)

  • Can Flipboard survive without a new new thing?
    Eight months ago, it looked like Flipboard was on its way out.

    The six-year-old company had lost key executives. Twitter had taken a hard look at Flipboard as an acquisition target — and passed. A report in the Wall Street Journal spelled out Flipboard’s struggle to hit revenue goals. And on top of it all, the app’s initial appeal — offering a more visual way to consume news — had been replicated and in many ways surpassed by other, bigger players, like Snapchat and Facebook and even Apple. (recode)

Weekly#172

  • Uber Customers Will Get Upfront Pricing in New App Version
    App will eliminate lightning-bolt icon previously used to indicate surge pricing (WSJ)
  • YouTube Will Soon Let You Stream Live Video From Your Phone
    The Google unit, Twitter and Facebook all want to be your mobile app of choice for live video (WSJ)
  • Tencent Seals Deal to Buy ‘Clash of Clans’ Developer Supercell for $8.6 Billion
    Tencent is little known in the West, but the company’s market capitalization was about $207 billion based on Tuesday’s closing price, more than that of Oracle Corp. and Intel Corp.
    Online games accounted for more than half of Tencent’s $15 billion in revenue last year. “We are very bullish on the [mobile games] market,” Tencent President Martin Lau said on a conference call. (WSJ)
  • Self-driving cars may one day face decision of who to save, kill (Wtop)
  • WhatsApp hits 100 million calls per day (TechCrunch)
  • Twitter quietly launches tags to location feeds with Foursquare
  • How Brands Can Put IoT Insights To Work For Them (Forbes)







Weekly#171

  • Salesforce.com Inc. lost out on its own bid for LinkedIn Corp. to Microsoft Corp., which acquired the professional social network site for $26.2 billion on Monday, according to a person familiar with the matter.Salesforce.com’s offer price isn’t known, but Brent Thill, an analyst at UBS Group, said purchasing LinkedIn would have been a stretch for the company, which makes web-based software for salespeople. The price Microsoft paid is nearly half of Salesforce.com’s $55.9 billion market capitalization. (WSJ)
  • Watch Apple’s Two-Hour 2016 WWDC Keynote in 7 Minutes (MacRumors)
  • Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. released an annual revenue forecast for the first time, projecting a 48% increase for the fiscal year ending in March as the Chinese e-commerce company seeks to alleviate investors’ concerns about its growth prospects. (WSJ)
  • LinkedIn also could supercharge Microsoft’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software, used to identify and track sales leads. Microsoft is in fourth place in market share among the large CRM players, including Salesforce.com Inc., SAP SE and Oracle Corp.
    Salesforce is the market leader, but it holds a minority of the complex and sometimes ill-defined market.LinkedIn already has its own CRM-type product, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, but more important, it has the data and reach that any CRM company would covet.(WSJ)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weekly#170

  • Sony Confirms It Is Planning High-End PlayStation 4
    No release date or pricing disclosed but new version will come with a faster processor and graphics enhancement (WSJ)
  • Messaging-app operator Line Corp. is planning a dual listing in Tokyo and New York in July that could raise more than $900 million and value the five-year-old company at more than $5 billion. (WSJ)
  • In a rare pre-WWDC sit-down interview with The Verge, Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, said that Apple would soon alter its revenue-sharing model for apps. While the well-known 70 / 30 split will remain, developers who are able to maintain a subscription with a customer longer than a year will see Apple’s cut drop down to 15 percent. The option to sell subscriptions will also be available to all developers instead of just a few kinds of apps. “Now we’re going to open up to all categories,” Schiller says, “and that includes games, which is a huge category.” (TheVerge)
  • Tesla’s Betting You’ll Pay
    $9,000 for a Software Upgrade
    On Thursday, Tesla Motors re-introduced the Model S60–a cheaper version of its all-electric sedan that was discontinued last April. The new S60 starts at $66,000 and has a range of about 208 miles. For $8,500 more, customers can choose an upgraded version, called the S75, which can travel about 40 more miles per charge, according to the company’s website.

    So the upgraded model has a bigger battery, right? Nope. The two versions of the car are identical and sport the same 75 kWh battery. The only difference is that the software on the lower-end version limits the capacity of the S60’s battery, crippling its range. In fact, owners can instantly transform a lowly S60 into an S75 at any time for a fee of $9,000 ($500 more than if they’d initially bought it that way). They don’t even have to bring the car to a service center. Tesla flips the software switch remotely. (Bloomberg)

  • Machine Learning Trends and the Future of Artificial Intelligence 2016 (Algorithmia)
  • Marc Andreessen’s Favorite Books

Weekly#169

 

Mary Meeker Internet Trends 2016

  • Ericsson Mobility Report June 2016 [PDF]
  • Code Conference 2016
  • Code Conference Videos
  • The biggest challenges for Chinese companies making the next generation of wearables, self-driving cars and drones is having experts in cross disciplines, GGV Capital Managing Partner Jenny Lee said Friday. (WSJ)
  • Notes for the summer: what happened, what’s happening now and what’s next (Ben Evans)
  • Transportation technology will be the next Internet protocol (TechCrunch)
  • Elon Musk Code Conference

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weekly#168

  • Microsoft to Streamline Smartphone Hardware Business
    Software giant insists that it isn’t exiting the mobile-phone business and will focus efforts in areas where it has ‘differentiation (WSJ)
  • Accenture Technology Vision 2016 [Report]
  • An LED Light Bulb With a Warm, Retro Glow (WSJ)
  • Amazon recently unveiled Echosim.io, a site that emulates the functionality of an Amazon Echo speaker, bringing the Alexa voice assistant technology to desktops.