Monese neobank announces a $35 million investment by HSBC
HSBC invests in Singapore’s customer intelligence and risk assessment startup
“…A study this year by professors at Columbia University and New York University estimated that lower tenant demand because of remote work may cut 28%, or $456 billion, off the value of offices across the US. About 10% of that would be in New York City alone…”
Uniswap Labs eyes over $100 million in new funding
1st gen AirPods Pro users seeing ‘Adaptive Transparency’ option after iOS 16.1 beta update
Magic Leap’s smaller, lighter second-gen AR glasses are now available
“… Bloomberg Intelligence estimates it would take about eight years to move just 10% of Apple’s production capacity out of China, where roughly 98% of the company’s iPhones have been made ….. with China accounting for 70% of global smartphone manufacturing and leading Chinese vendors accounting for nearly half of global shipments…”
Pharma giant Pfizer has shelled out nearly US$120 million to acquire a small Australian company claiming to have developed a smartphone app that can accurately diagnose COVID-19 by analyzing the sound of a cough.
Cloudflare launches an eSIM to secure mobile devices
7 Lessons on Dynamic Pricing (HBR)… 2017 WSJ article about dynamic pricing
Mapping the Unknown — The 10 Steps to Map Any Industry
Amazon’s Fall Device Event: Wi-Fi-Boosting Echo Speakers, a Kindle for Note-Taking and More (WSJ)
“…Global cloud spending is projected to reach $830.5 billion by the end of the year, up 17.5% from 2021, but slowing from last year’s growth rate of 18.3%, according to International Data Corp. It expects growth to drop to 16.3% next year…” (WSJ)
Google Maps Launches Eco-Friendly Fuel-Efficient Routing On App
Apple will sponsor Super Bowl halftime show starting in February
Investors are spending 24% less time looking at pitch decks in 2022, compared to 2021…investors give up in just 2 minutes and 13 seconds
“…According to analysts at Goldman Sachs, a decade ago Wall Street saw the move as mainly just a way to sell extra design software to Adobe’s existing 12mn-13mn customers: instead, user numbers for Adobe’s Creative Cloud — which includes Photoshop — have risen to more than 30mn….” (FT)
NY-based Stash is one of few neobanks to build its own core banking system
Alibaba Cloud enjoyed a 9.5% market share in 2021, trailing Microsoft (21%) and Amazon (39%), according to market research firm Gartner
France sets delivery fee for online book sales to help stores compete with Amazon
Chipmaker Qualcomm says automotive future business expands to $30 bln
Cloud kitchen startup CloudEats raises more capital to ramp up Southeast Asian expansion
YouTube’s Dislike Button Rarely Shifts Recommendations, Researchers Say.”…YouTube’s “dislike” button reduced similar, unwanted recommendations only 12 percent, according to their report, titled “Does This Button Work?…”
For Gen Z, TikTok Is the New Search Engine…Need to find a restaurant or figure out how to do something? Young people are turning to TikTok to search for answers.
Apple to move 25% iPhone production to India by 2025, 20% iPad and Apple Watch to Vietnam, analysts say
Salesforce aims for 25% operating margin in 2026 with more efficient spending
First look at dynamicSpot: Bringing Apple’s Dynamic Island to your Android phone
Virtual Threads: New Foundations for High-Scale Java Applications
“…Internal Meta research: Instagram users spend 17.6M hours/day on Reels vs. 197.8M hours/day on TikTok; ~1/3 of Reels are recycled posts from other platforms…” (WSJ)
Towards the end of 2022, the human population on Earth is expected to reach eight billion
The electrolyser is expected to have an output of 1100 Nm3/h hydrogen at normal current density. This equals 100 kg of pure hydrogen per hour, which will set a new standard for the industry
SoftBank Considers Launching a Third Vision Fund…The successor Vision Fund 2 is now worth 19% less than the $49 billion it invested… (WSJ)
Zoom Readies Email and Calendar Products to Defend Itself Against Microsoft, Google (The Information)
Starbucks and DoorDash launch delivery partnership, will expand offering nationwide in 2023
Instagram is internally testing a new monetization feature for creators called ‘Gifts’
SWIFT Financial-Messaging System Pilots Blockchain Project
“…one of the estimated one billion customers around the globe using neobanks, according to analysis by German strategy consultants Simon-Kucher…” (FT)
Predictive Maintenance: Developed by New York-based startup Augury Inc., the technology has helped Frito-Lay add some 4,000 hours a year of manufacturing capacity—the equivalent of several million pounds of snacks coming off the production line (WSJ)
Apple's Emergency SOS system is provided by Globalstar. That spectrum is globally allocated for mobile satellite service. Mid-band frequencies T-Mobile wants to use are not and each country would need to authorize use by satellites. A license is always needed in each country. https://t.co/JxXeUewEhk
Audi will build F1 engines, entering the sport in 2026.”…VW Group will actually fund two F1 programs, one with Audi and a second with Porsche, which is in the process of acquiring a 50 percent stake in Red Bull Technologies…“
An iPhone 14 satellite link could depend on Apple cutting a deal with wireless carriers
Apple overtakes Android to pass 50% share of smartphones used in US (FT)
Inside the software that will become the next battle front in US-China chip war…The US has moved to restrict export of electronic design automation (EDA) software
Red Hat OpenShift adds heterogenous clusters mixing x86, Arm
Tesla expands Powerwall-to-grid program to cover most of California…Utility companies are offering $2 per kWh for power stored in battery tech
A new strain of avian flu is decimating wild birds…In a pre-Covid 19 world, the deaths of 86mn birds would have been a global news story (FT)
Netflix’s ad-supported plan may block offline viewing, code suggests
TikTok launches new ad solutions with smarter targeting and amplified product discovery
Google blocks third record-breaking DDoS attack in as many months…46 million requests per second network flood comes as attacks increase by more than 200% compared to last year
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…”
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
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
“...Google’s latest blog post details the second delay to the shutdown of third-party tracking cookies. Google says it will now support the tracking method until “the second half of 2024…“
