Black Friday is coming up and last weekend Alibaba hosted its tenth annual Singles day on 11/11. Some mind-blowing stats from Singles day can’t decide if this is good or bad:
- Reached the first USD 1 Bn in sales 1 min 25 seconds and
- USD 10 Bn in just over an hour
- Total of USD 30.8 Bn in sales
- They processed 1.042 Billion orders during the day
- The first 100 Million packages were delivered in 2.6 days
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Tech
- Softbank targets USD 20 Bn IPO for its Japanese mobile unit WSJ
- Top 10 cities for super VC rounds in 2018 TechCrunch
- As expected, Alibaba beat their current turnover on Singles day reaching a USD 30.8 Bn in sales for the day also similar to a 27% increase since last year TheVerge
- Northzone entering the real-estate broker business DiDigital
- Snap’s business executive Imran Khan is building a new shopping start-up ReCode
- Coffee stain – the game studio makers of the Goat simulator is sold for USD 35 M DiDigital
- H&M’s ARKET tries blockchain technologies together with VeChain TheNextWeb
- Not completely surprisingly it seems an AI now can program new Java-programs Futurism
- When all the VC money is going for the unicorns – the real start-ups are left behind Venturebeat and more on the same topic Forbes
Media
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- Co_Made invests in Art & Bob, yup that’s us Resume
- Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki says the EU copyright details aren’t thought through and would be really difficult to follow TheVerge
- YouTube encourage longer videos – to boost ad spend Wired
- Spotify launched their Apple Watch app TheVerge
- Infographics about who use Spotify in the US Hypebot
- 46 M US households will use a smart TV this year eMarketer
Transportation
- How “the media” reports on Tesla Cleantech
- Blablacar acquires Ouibus to offer bus services TechCrunch
- Uber reported slower growth and wider loss for its Third quarter ahead of its 2019 IPO WSJ
- Difficulties with autonomous vehicles: snow, leaves, rain, darkness and more WSJ
- BMW, Vodafone and Ericsson urge European comission to allow for use of 5G in cars to start trials of 5G autonomous vehicles Reuters
XR
- Youtube VR finally came to Oculus Go TechCrunch
- Huawei are working on AR glasses to be released within the next year or two CNBC
- Mojo Vision challenging Microsoft and Magic Leap by aiming to build a AR-lenses (instead of glasses that is) CNET
- Apple nearly acquired Leap Motion but the deal came short VentureBeat
- Magic Leap offers up to USD 500,000 for developers AR apps RoadtoVR
- Google reportedly working on some infinity shoes making you be able to walk around your VR world without moving a meter IRL Tomsguide
