Earnings week came in with mixed results among the FAANGSs. Amazon, Spotify, Apple, and Alphabet took a hit. Facebook and Netflix both gained market values and trust among investors – the main difference being – the winners kept their growth promise and the “losers” missed their growth targets or guidances.
Tech
- Everything Apple announced at their autumn event, MacBook Air, Mac Mini, MacBook Air with retina screen TechCrunch
- EQT, Battery ventures and GV invest USD 20 M in “the fastest scaling startups ever” – Headspin a mobile application user testing platform (cannot stop referring to Swedish Lookback that raised USD 2.2 M in 2014) TechCrunch
- Google made it easier to work with Drive and its business suite tools. Simply type for example doc.new to open an new Doc Quartz
- European start-up sector is increasing its deal size and reducing the amount of deals significantly in 2018 compared to 2017 PitchBook
- Emotional wellness startup raise USD 2.7 M TechCrunch
- EA reveals cloud gaming platform Project Atlas Medium
- TikTok surpassed Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Youtube in downloads last month TechCrunch
Media
- Digital booking site for artists Gigital raise more capital DiDigital
- AT&T’s HBO and Cinemax aren’t avaiable on Dish networks because of a dispute WSJ
- Amazon trying to squeeze smaller streaming services TheInformation
Transportation
- Electric boat start-up Candella raise more funds DiDigital
- Jaguar’s all electric vehicle TechCrunch
- Deutsche Post starts trial with “autonomous” postal bot InterestingEngineering | Youtube
- IKEA to trial deliveries with Instabox DiDigital
- ComputerWorld argues why Augmented Reality has won against VR in the race of becoming the next big thing ComputerWorld
- Faraday Future seem to be struggeling a bit.. Mashable
- Uber and Lyft both plan on expanding subscriptions for rides Vox
XR
- Some more details on the H&M, Magic Leap and Warpin Media collaboration DagensMedia
- Is AR the beginning of the end of selfies? DagensMedia
- OneDome have raised USD 3.3 M for its Unreal Garden experience/Installation VentureBeat
- Apple’s acquisition of Leap Motion fails and Snap and Magic Leap make fashion collaborations NextReality
- Engadget trying and reviewing the Magic Leap One Engadget
