Pantone wants $15/month for the privilege of using its colors in Photoshop
HBO series ‘The Last of Us’ premieres this January
Wharton, Berkeley, NYU Offering Online M.B.A.s for the First Time (WSJ)
US Banks Reported $1 Billion in 2021 Ransomware Payments
Geo-Distributed Microservices and Their Database: Fighting the High Latency
Ocado shares soar on new South Korea retail partnership (FT)
JP Morgan executes first DeFi trade on public blockchain
WhatsApp officially launches its new discussion group feature, Communities
Port internal development platform gives visibility into DevOps architecture
Goldman Sachs Embeds Software Developers Deeper Into the Business
“...Goldman also tries to empower its own technology teams by changing up the process of product development. Rather than be told to code a product by teams further up the chain, developers and engineers write together with business development teams what the company calls a working-back memo, in reference to a product development philosophy used by Mr. Argenti’s former employer,Amazon Inc…“
How they make money … Great visually-engaging financial analysis by Bertrand Seguin, a 37 year old French investor, who spent 12 years at Japanese gaming company Bandai Namco explaining finance to his bosses … Sign up to his free newsletter: https://t.co/wjgChvHpPxpic.twitter.com/fSUxJmObQ1
My theory remains that Google keeps trying to set up a big group call to sort this out, but they can never remember which app to use pic.twitter.com/a9Xdw2vgQC
“…With the big three — Amazon, Microsoft and Google — reporting earnings this week, we learned that the cloud infrastructure market topped $57 billion for the quarter, up $11 billion over the same period last year…”
How Bayer used machine learning to predict cold and flu trends
“…The globe’s 4 billionth person was born in 1975 and now, in about a month, the 8 billionth person will probably be born…By the end of this century, the global population will have decreased by 1 billion people from its peak, according to a 2020 analysis by researchers at the Gates Foundation, and in the most extreme scenario, the population could decline by almost 2 billion from where it is today, to just over 6 billion…”
An unopened first-generation iPhone from 2007 still in its original box has sold for more than $39,000 at auction
Instacart, the food delivery company, is pulling its plans to go public in 2022
Tesla is now taking votes for its next Supercharger locations
74% say connected cars and EV chargers need cybersecurity ratings
Apple will release macOS Ventura and iPadOS 16 on October 24
Amazon launches UK portal for buying insurance (FT)
Uber looks to accelerate revenue growth with new business division (FT)
“Microsoft in Advanced Talks to Increase Investment in OpenAI…Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019…OpenAI said more than 1.5 million users created over 2 million images a day using Dall-E 2 after it was released to the public this month” (WSJ)
SpaceX is now advertising Starlink Aviation, promising 350Mbps broadband with unlimited data for each airplane it’s installed in…Monthly service fees are $12,500 to $25,000
Netflix confirms it’s looking to launch a cloud gaming service
There are between 400 and 600 commercial data centers in Britain, and they account for about 2.5% of the country’s electricity demand, according to the National Grid
Musixmatch launches a podcast platform for transcription driven by AI and community
Google Maps Launches Eco-Friendly Fuel-Efficient Routing On App
Apple will sponsor Super Bowl halftime show starting in February
Investors are spending 24% less time looking at pitch decks in 2022, compared to 2021…investors give up in just 2 minutes and 13 seconds
“…According to analysts at Goldman Sachs, a decade ago Wall Street saw the move as mainly just a way to sell extra design software to Adobe’s existing 12mn-13mn customers: instead, user numbers for Adobe’s Creative Cloud — which includes Photoshop — have risen to more than 30mn….” (FT)
NY-based Stash is one of few neobanks to build its own core banking system
Alibaba Cloud enjoyed a 9.5% market share in 2021, trailing Microsoft (21%) and Amazon (39%), according to market research firm Gartner
France sets delivery fee for online book sales to help stores compete with Amazon
Chipmaker Qualcomm says automotive future business expands to $30 bln
Cloud kitchen startup CloudEats raises more capital to ramp up Southeast Asian expansion
YouTube’s Dislike Button Rarely Shifts Recommendations, Researchers Say.”…YouTube’s “dislike” button reduced similar, unwanted recommendations only 12 percent, according to their report, titled “Does This Button Work?…”
For Gen Z, TikTok Is the New Search Engine…Need to find a restaurant or figure out how to do something? Young people are turning to TikTok to search for answers.
Apple to move 25% iPhone production to India by 2025, 20% iPad and Apple Watch to Vietnam, analysts say
Salesforce aims for 25% operating margin in 2026 with more efficient spending
First look at dynamicSpot: Bringing Apple’s Dynamic Island to your Android phone
Virtual Threads: New Foundations for High-Scale Java Applications
“…Internal Meta research: Instagram users spend 17.6M hours/day on Reels vs. 197.8M hours/day on TikTok; ~1/3 of Reels are recycled posts from other platforms…” (WSJ)
Towards the end of 2022, the human population on Earth is expected to reach eight billion
The electrolyser is expected to have an output of 1100 Nm3/h hydrogen at normal current density. This equals 100 kg of pure hydrogen per hour, which will set a new standard for the industry
SoftBank Considers Launching a Third Vision Fund…The successor Vision Fund 2 is now worth 19% less than the $49 billion it invested… (WSJ)
Zoom Readies Email and Calendar Products to Defend Itself Against Microsoft, Google (The Information)
Starbucks and DoorDash launch delivery partnership, will expand offering nationwide in 2023
Instagram is internally testing a new monetization feature for creators called ‘Gifts’
SWIFT Financial-Messaging System Pilots Blockchain Project
“…one of the estimated one billion customers around the globe using neobanks, according to analysis by German strategy consultants Simon-Kucher…” (FT)
Predictive Maintenance: Developed by New York-based startup Augury Inc., the technology has helped Frito-Lay add some 4,000 hours a year of manufacturing capacity—the equivalent of several million pounds of snacks coming off the production line (WSJ)
Apple's Emergency SOS system is provided by Globalstar. That spectrum is globally allocated for mobile satellite service. Mid-band frequencies T-Mobile wants to use are not and each country would need to authorize use by satellites. A license is always needed in each country. https://t.co/JxXeUewEhk
Audi will build F1 engines, entering the sport in 2026.”…VW Group will actually fund two F1 programs, one with Audi and a second with Porsche, which is in the process of acquiring a 50 percent stake in Red Bull Technologies…“
An iPhone 14 satellite link could depend on Apple cutting a deal with wireless carriers
Apple overtakes Android to pass 50% share of smartphones used in US (FT)
Inside the software that will become the next battle front in US-China chip war…The US has moved to restrict export of electronic design automation (EDA) software
Red Hat OpenShift adds heterogenous clusters mixing x86, Arm
Tesla expands Powerwall-to-grid program to cover most of California…Utility companies are offering $2 per kWh for power stored in battery tech
A new strain of avian flu is decimating wild birds…In a pre-Covid 19 world, the deaths of 86mn birds would have been a global news story (FT)
Netflix’s ad-supported plan may block offline viewing, code suggests
TikTok launches new ad solutions with smarter targeting and amplified product discovery
Google blocks third record-breaking DDoS attack in as many months…46 million requests per second network flood comes as attacks increase by more than 200% compared to last year