H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (15 March 2019) – How Artificial Intelligence Could Transform Medicine + Podcast #490: Can You Learn to Be Lucky?

H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (15 March 2019) – How Artificial Intelligence Could Transform Medicine + Podcast #490: Can You Learn to Be Lucky?

Companies

• What Bilibili stakes reveal about Alibaba’s and Tencent’s content strategies (Technode)
• Live-streaming app Momo posts strong growth in 2018 amid climbing costs (Technode)
• China’s e-commerce players look to smaller cities to help drive consumption, growth; Alibaba, JD.com, Pinduoduo and Vipshop pursue expansion outside China’s leading metropolises (SCMP)
• Auto platform Uxin narrows losses on swelling used car sales (Technode)
• Trend Micro: IoT brings innovation, but also threats (TR)
• Japan’s Netflix contender bets on youth-driven viral hits; AbemaTV remains an unproven bet for its biggest backer, online ad agency CyberAgent, which launched the network three years ago with TV Asahi (Reuters)
• 3 Korean carpooling firms ignore Kakao Mobility-led agreement (Investor)
• Taiwan’s tech industry hunkers down after worst month since 2016; Key iPhone assembler Pegatron warns of a ‘hard year’ ahead (Nikkei)

BATTSS – Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, TSMC, Samsung, Softbank

• Samsung starts mass producing DRAM chip for foldable smartphones (Investor)

FAANNMG – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, Netflix, Microsoft, Google

• Facebook Is Eroding Trust in Two-Factor Authentication (Medium)
• Why Were Facebook and Google Allowed to Get So Big?: QuickTake (Bloomberg)
• DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence; Demis Hassabis founded a company to build the world’s most powerful AI. Then Google bought him out. Hal Hodson asks who is in charge (1834mag)
• Google Quietly Releases Its Hotel Booking Destination With Potentially Huge Implications (Skift)
• Amazon now owns Eero, and it promises it won’t snoop on you (Wired)
• Siri, Tell Us About Apple’s Latest Acquisition (CB)
• Microsoft targets video game developers in challenge to Amazon’s cloud dominance (JT)
• Blind users can now explore photos by touch with Microsoft’s Seeing AI (TC)

Asia Tech & Innovation Trends

• For China drone-maker DJI, the real money in labor-starved Japan is in the industrial sector (JT))
• Armed With Cash From Chipmaker SK Hynix, Korean Giant Spends Billions On Global Shopping Spree (Forbes)
• Drivezy, India’s vehicle-sharing startup, is raising $100M+ at a $400M valuation, eyes US expansion (TC)
• Digital health start-ups in India: The challenge of scale (Forbes)

Global Tech & Innovation Trends

• How Artificial Intelligence Could Transform Medicine (NYT)
• Fortnite’s developer is entering the retail business; Epic hopes to break the dominance of a firm called Valve-and another called Google (Economist)
• The next frontier in real estate technology (TC)
• Spotify boss warns of price rises in Apple antitrust dispute; Daniel Ek says music-streaming service could have ‘no other choice’ in face of App Store’s 30% fee (FT)
• Gro Intelligence looks to reap rewards from crop data; Agricultural information group uncovers trends it hopes can counter looming food shortage (FT)
• Ocado delivers on promise of high-tech future; Evolution into a maker of automated warehouses has changed online grocer’s outlook (FT)
• Polarr Raises $11.5M For AI-Driven Visual Content Enhancement (CB)
• DoorDash Has Pulled Ahead of GrubHub, Uber Eats in the On-Demand Food Delivery Race (Fortune)
• Pandora Pitches Ads Targeted to Amazon and Google Smart Speakers; Brands try to crack voice marketing in the restrictive worlds of Alexa and Google Assistant (WSJ)

Life

• Nietzsche’s Cure for Negativity: How to Harness the “Will to Power” (Medium)
• Podcast #490: Can You Learn to Be Lucky? (AOM)