November 10, 2018 Leave a comment
H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (10 November 2018) – J. Jacobs – 10 Strategies to Be Happier Through Gratitude (Tim Ferris #344); Aphorisms on Kindness
Companies
- Trend Micro Reports Third Quarter 2018 Results; Overall growth of 11 percent in enterprise business anchored its success (BW)
- Chinese auto marketplace TuanChe sets terms for $34 million US IPO (Nasdaq)
- MediaTek gaining ground in global ASIC market; MediaTek has greatly benefited from shipments of ASICs for Amazon’s smart speakers, with shipments amounting to millions of units in less than one year. (Digitimes)
BATTSS – Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, TSMC, Softbank, Samsung
- Alibaba’s future is cloud computing, CEO Daniel Zhang says (Technode)
- Ant Financial plugs its credit scoring system into Chinese rental economy through acquisitions (KRA)
FAANNMG – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, Netflix, Microsoft, Google
- ‘Keep Talkin’ Larry’: Amazon Is Close to Tossing Oracle Software; By the end of 2018, Amazon will stop using 88 percent of its Oracle databases, including 97 percent of its mission-critical databases (Bloomberg)
- Behind iPhone Face ID Is a Battle Over Costs; The $3.2 billion acquisition of Finisar by II-VI tries to give more negotiating power to suppliers. (Bloomberg)
Asia Tech & Innovation Trends
- International logistics transaction platform Yun Lian raised USD 10 million Series A2; According to founder, the platform’s revenue this year will exceed 500 million RMB, and the annual container volume is about 300,000. (KRA)
- How food tech major Zomato is making an audacious bid to transform itself into a farm-to-fork company (Forbes); Food tech platforms Swiggy and Zomato are fighting a pitched battle for supremacy, backed by top investors Naspers and Alibaba (Forbes)
Global Tech & Innovation Trends
- Yelp’s Growth Strategy ‘Completely Fell Apart’ (Bloomberg)
- Dropbox Jumps With Subscription Numbers Blowing Past Forecasts (Bloomberg)
- Spotify to Musicians: Let Us Be Your Label (Bloomberg)
Life
- J. Jacobs – 10 Strategies to Be Happier Through Gratitude (#344) (Tim Ferris)
- A Biological Approach to Management: Resilience, rather than efficiency (WSJ)
- Why You Should Stick With ‘Buy and Hold’: Beware of those who claim they have a strategy to capture the upside of market volatility and avoid the downside. (Bloomberg)
- 40 Things I Wish I’d Known About Building A Career in The Arts (Medium)
- Aphorisms on Kindness (TSOL)
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