H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (6 April 2019) – Adobe’s growth to be fuelled by AI + 20 Ideas That Changed My Life
April 6, 2019 Leave a comment
H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (6 April 2019) – Adobe’s growth to be fuelled by AI + 20 Ideas That Changed My Life
Companies
- Online travel booking agency Webjet believes there will be plenty of growth in the B2B WebBeds business in 10 years time (Australian)
BATTSS – Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, TSMC, Samsung, Softbank
- Samsung warns its profits will drop 60% as smartphone demand slumps (CNN); Samsung profit plunge exposes smartphone king’s deeper problems; Excessive ambition, high costs and leadership void make it harder to fend off rivals (Nikkei)
FAANNMG – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, Netflix, Microsoft, Google
- Amazon’s Whole Foods price cuts aim to build a ‘Costco-like’ relationship with Prime members (MW)
- Amazon Go Faces Unlikely Challenge From Checkout-Free Startup (Bloomberg)
- Apple Plus – brand versus subscription (BE)
- Apple Music’s U.S. subscriber count overtakes Spotify: source (Reuters)
- Microsoft ‘s partnership with Adobe to better integrate its sales and marketing software will enable the technology giant to compete with Salesforce (Barron’s)
- 3 Reasons Apple and Disney Won’t Dethrone Netflix in Streaming, According to an Analyst (Barron’s)
- Google Could Learn a Lot About You From Its New Gaming Platform (Medium)
Asia Tech & Innovation Trends
- KDDI set to launch smartphone payment service, joining rivals SoftBank and Docomo (JT)
- Panasonic makes first foray toward Indian EV charger network (Nikkei)
- Korean companies ready to exploit early adoption of 5G network; Retailer Shinsegae, amusement park Seoul Land go ahead for AR, VR services (Nikkei)
- Fast but patchy: Trying South Korea’s new 5G service; Reliability problems cloud benefit of quicker download speeds (Nikkei)
- Taiwanese travel startup KKday gives local tours a global reach; Millennials drawn to last-minute bookings and on the ground tips (Nikkei)
- Oyo to launch hotel business in Japan; Indian unicorn announces joint venture with SoftBank (Nikkei)
Global Tech & Innovation Trends
- Adobe’s growth to be fuelled by AI (Star)
- Boomplay, a Spotify-style music and video streaming service for African music and Africa, raises $20M (TC)
- Austria’s AI Brain Has a Plan to Take Down Waymo and Tesla (Bloomberg)
- Lego’s hopes new programmable robotics kit will see use in classrooms (JT)
- Fashion Resale Marketplace Poshmark Reportedly Eyeing IPO (CB)
- Firewall Leader Set to Expand; Palo Alto became a leading cybersecurity provider with its next-generation firewall appliance, forever altering the requirements of this essential piece of networking security (Morningstar)
- Payment `Disruptors’ Are Beating FAANG, Morgan Stanley Says (Bloomberg)
Life
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