Disney+ Could Hit 260 Million Subscribers by 2024, CEO Bob Chapek Says
Outlook 2021: Sustaining the Outperforming Covid Recovery
Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity
Apple Fitness+ launches this coming Monday at $9.99 per month
Facebook hit with massive antitrust lawsuit from 46 states
SpaceX’s Starship has flown a record 12.5 km into the air—and then crashed
Adobe just released the last Flash update ever…Adobe will stop supporting Flash on December 31st, 2020, and it will block Flash content from running on January 12th, 2021.
Amazon’s redesigned Fire TV software starts rolling out today
Seoul-based payment tech startup CHAI gets $60 million from Hanhwa, SoftBank Ventures Asia
Coronavirus, election results, Kobe Bryant and Zoom among Google’s top 2020 search trends in US and world
App stores to see 130 billion downloads in 2020 and record consumer spend of $112 billion
With over 1 billion users, Chrome is both a browser and a major platform. The Chrome Web Store hosts more than 250,000 extensions and themes with 4 million Chrome extensions downloaded every day
McKinsey estimates that global digital-health revenues—from telemedicine, online pharmacies, wearable devices and so on—will rise from $350bn last year to $600bn in 2024
Sony to buy AT&T’s anime business for $1.18 billion to expand global footprint
The New Consumer Conversation in an Era of Uncertainty
How the US, UK and China are planning to roll out vaccines
Japan is about to bring back samples of an asteroid 180 million miles away
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.
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
The death and rebirth of America’s department stores, in charts
Grab-Singtel and Ant Group win digital bank licenses in Singapore
More than 500,000 full electric cars sold so far this year in Europe
Singapore approves sale of lab-grown meat in world first
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.
Microsoft launches Azure Purview, its new data governance service
Hulu officially launches its co-viewing feature, Watch Party
Elon Musk is open to talking about merging Tesla with another car company. These are the 4 most likely candidates, experts say.
Coronavirus: Vaccination ‘could become routine from 2022‘
Elon Musk is ‘highly confident’ SpaceX will land humans on Mars by 2026
Gartner Says Global Smartphone Sales Declined 5.7% in Third Quarter of 2020
China launches ambitious mission to land on moon and return samples to Earth
“The Queen’s Gambit” set the record as the most-watched scripted limited series to date on Netflix — with 62 million member accounts tuning in to the show in the first 28 days, according to the company.
Four Reasons the Stay-at-Home Economy Is Here to Stay (WSJ:Paywall) “…First, companies have made huge investments in the infrastructure needed to deliver goods and services to our homes quickly and efficiently, which means those products are now easier to use and often less expensive. Second, families have also invested in the services and gadgets to keep their members safe and sated while sheltering in place. Third, our habits have changed: Many people have gotten over the “hump” of adopting new technologies earlier than they otherwise might have. And finally, hundreds of thousands of Americans who lost traditional jobs in retail and service—on showroom floors and inside restaurants—have found new ones working in online order fulfillment and delivery. Even those who retained their jobs are seeing their roles shift to address these new conduits for economic activity...”
During the pandemic, 10 years of consumer adoption of e-commerce was compressed into three months, according to a recent survey by McKinsey
Who should get a covid-19 vaccine first?…Mathematicians are faced with two conflicting priorities when modeling for vaccines: Should they prevent deaths or slow transmission?
Rocket Lab has successfully recovered a booster for the first time
“…That’s a remarkable thing. It’s the first time you’ve ever been able to decide exactly when and where you want to watch a big, would-be-blockbuster Hollywood movie on opening day…“
Google Chrome is available as an Apple M1 native app today
Stadia game streaming will come to iOS via Web browser
Google revamps its strategy towards banking (FT:Paywall)
Google Pay gets a major redesign with a new emphasis on personal finance
Google Pay now has about 150 million users in 30 countries
Google is also partnering with 11 banks to launch a new kind of bank account in 2021. Called Plex, these mobile-first bank accounts will have no monthly fees, overdraft charges or minimum balances. The banks will own the accounts but the Google Pay app will be the main conduit for managing these accounts
…combining three things into one,”
One is the ability to pay friends and businesses really fast.
Explore offers and rewards, so you can save money at shops.
Getting insights about your spending so you can stay on top of your money.”
Apple drops its cut of App Store revenues from 30% to 15% for some developers…The cut benefits only developers who pull in less than $1 million annually.
Thanks to SpaceX, NASA regains a capability it lost for a decade
Windows Turn 35: A Visual History…The PC revolution started off life 35 years ago this week. Microsoft launched its first version of Windows on November 20th, 1985
Microsoft and Apple working on Xbox Series X controller support for iPhones and iPads
Eero’s security subscription now lets parents block sites at the router level
OneWeb emerges from bankruptcy, aims to begin launching satellites again on December 17
LidarPhone attack converts smart vacuums into microphones
Japan Inc to begin experiments issuing digital yen
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