H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (3 December 2018) – ‘Natural language understanding’ poised to transform how we work + Charlie Munger: Character Traits You Should Cultivate
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H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (3 December 2018) – ‘Natural language understanding’ poised to transform how we work + Charlie Munger: Character Traits You Should Cultivate
Companies
- China’s Weibo eyes global expansion, foreign-language products (AFP)
- How Afterpay and Zip dodged an ASIC bullet (AFR)
BATTSS – Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, TSMC, Softbank, Samsung
- Tencent’s WeChat to deploy AI tools in education in push into industrial internet; Move is part of tech giant’s plans to tap on potential of industrial internet (SCMP)
FAANNMG – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, Netflix, Microsoft, Google
- Flipkart, Amazon bleed: E-commerce burns cash, but investments keep pouring in (FE)
- How Facebook Uses ‘WhatsApp Phones’ to Tap Next Emerging Market (Bloomberg)
- Amazon tests cashierless tech for stores with bigger spaces – WSJ (Reuters)
Asia Tech & Innovation Trends
- How China Is Planning to Rank 1.3 Billion People (Bloomberg)
- China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buses, Taxis and Trucks; Chinese makers produced 99% of electric buses deployed globally from 2014 to 2017 (WSJ)
- Aussie app store for AI Unleash Live raises $4.75m (AFR)
- Singapore startup helps offline stores face e-commerce onslaught; Honestbee opens tech-driven outlet, eyes 3 markets in Asia (Nikkei)
Global Tech & Innovation Trends
- ‘Natural language understanding’ poised to transform how we work; Written communication will become a less exclusively human task if machines can extract meaning from text (FT)
- Tech companies tinker under the hood of the automobile industry; As the car becomes a smart device, there will be a shift in what consumers want (FT)
- Targeted online video to be advertising industry’s star performer – Zenith (Reuters)
Life
- Charlie Munger: Character Traits You Should Cultivate; Become a better investor by improving these 13 ways of thinking and behaving (GF)
- Paulo Coelho: 18 Phrases (Paulo Coelho)
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