H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (6 February 2019) – Where Big Leaps Happen; The Great Naturalist John Burroughs on Art, the Courage to Defy Convention, and the Measure of a Visionary
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H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (6 February 2019) – Where Big Leaps Happen; The Great Naturalist John Burroughs on Art, the Courage to Defy Convention, and the Measure of a Visionary
Companies
- Movie ticketer Maoyan flops in IPO as market shuns China tech (Nikkei)
- China’s CATL to supply Honda with EV batteries through 2027 (Nikkei)
- Kyocera hedges trade war risks with 2 European acquisitions (Nikkei)
- Vietnam’s FPT teams with Allianz on digital insurance (Nikkei)
BATTSS – Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, TSMC, Samsung, Softbank
FAANNMG – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, Netflix, Microsoft, Google
- Microsoft Invests in ‘Boring AI’ Startup Valued at $2.75 Billion (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft Buys Startup BrightBytes’s DataSense Service (CB)
- Feared or celebrated, Amazon’s Alexa is star of Super Bowl ads (JT)
- How Facebook has changed computing (Wired)
- Waymo Is Nearing Robocar Deal With Renault-Nissan Alliance (Bloomberg)
Asia Tech & Innovation Trends
- Jewellery supply chain platform firm Atelier Technology banking on China, to open office in Guangzhou (SCMP)
- Toyota’s new car subscription company Kinto is gamifying driving behavior (TC)
- Keshav Prawasi, Nitin Babel, Shishir Modi: One-stop shopping solution Niki.ai, a chatbot that is also a virtual shopping assistant for customers (Forbes)
- Pranay Surana, Tushar Saxena: Fashion on rent (Forbes)
- Southeast Asia’s internet needs a light touch; ASEAN must develop common standards and avoid restrictive national rules (Nikkei)
Global Tech & Innovation Trends
- Brands from warby parker to sephora have actually found sensible uses for AR (qz)
- Music Producer Swizz Beatz on why streaming services should pay musicians 50/50 (MW)
- ‘Tinder, but with dogs’ helps potential owners set up a ‘date’ (MW)
- Ocado: a treasure deferred; A catch may startle investors trying to value group using traditional measures (FT)
- Picture this: an AI game where humans and computers collaborate; Groundbreaking game uses images to help artificial intelligence communicate with people (FT)
- Square’s Cash App Downloads Outpace Venmo Again, Analyst Says (Barron’s)
- Robots’ Lead Role in Super Bowl Ads Hint at Tech Anxieties (WSJ)
- Reddit Valued At $3 Billion In New Massive Capital Raise (ZH)
- Databricks Doubles Capital Raised With $250M Series E And A $2.75 Billion Valuation; over 2,000 organizations around the world use Databricks’s software in their data analytics, data science, and machine learning workflows (CB)
- Meet the 9 startups that Techstars believes can disrupt the music industry (FastCo)
Life
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