It happened, Apple became the first company to exceed USD 1,000,000,000,000 in market capitalisation Bloomberg
Tech
- Google set to roll out public wifi spots in Nigeria, India, Indonesia, Thailand and Mexico GoogleBlog
- Story on increasing espionage amongst the technology companies in the Bay area Politico
- UK Parliament published a report on disinformation and “fake news” UK Parliament
- Online apparel sales grew 7% in the US in 2017 RetailDive –
- Facebook found and banned 17 profiles for “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” TechCrunch
- Zara will equip their stores to be able to ship garments that are out of stock in their online warehouses WSJ
- Tencent – owner of WeChat – have lost ≈USD 140 Bn in market cap since year end DiDigital
- Apple reported its best quarterly revenue ever, powered by strong continued iPhone sales but strongest growth comes from its services [iTunes, AppStore, ApplePay & Apple Music] WSJ
- Golden Gate Ventures raise first USD 100 M fund based in Singapore – showing not only the venture companies scale in the region – the funds does it too. TechCrunch
- Facebook – like Apple – adds time management tools for Instagram and facebook applications “soon” WSJ
- Oscar Olsson – CEO of Nyden – leaves H&M’s Millenial start-up 3 months after launch DiDigital
- Swedish EQT Ventures backed e-health service Min Doktor doubles revenue to USD 7.8 M for 2017 DiDigital
Media
- Amazon is planning a facelift and individualisation improvements to Prime video TechCrunch
- MoviePass seems to lose is business and business model as site went blank on Monday TechCrunch
- Apple hints during Earnings call about their ongoing TV projects CNET
Transportation
- Uber discontinued its self driving heavy trucks division – to focus on self driving cars that are now on the roads of Philadelphia again TechCrunch
- Uber have now provided more than 10 Bn rides UberBlog
- Tesla closing in on profitability on Model 3 at least TheVerge
XR
- Chrome is coming to Google Daydream TechCrunch
- MagicLeap reveals Field of View (FoV) specifications for ML1 MagicLeap
Statistics
- Super interesting graphics of US companies salary distribution WSJ
- Mobile penetration in sub-Saharan Africa is set to grow to 52% in the coming 5 years up from 44% 2017 GSMA
- Sweden’s tallest point just became the second tallest. Kebnekaise’s Northern summit is now taller than the South one. DN
