Focus topic: Everybody talks about and mentions AI, I need to know what it is. Here is a great starting point – podcast by ElementAI
Tech
- Starwood hotel chain is hacked, an estimate of 500 M people’s information may be lost WSJ | here is Starwood’s/Marriots’ response TechCrunch
- Amazon looks to expand cashier less stores to bigger stores WSJ
- AWS re:Invent conference gives guidance to where Amazon wants to end up – or rather not end up – with AWS TechCrunch
- Atomico’s yearly State of European Tech just released speculating in more billion VC rounds and a more gender equal 2019 StateofEuropeanTech
- Wired argues the biggest issues Facebook face are internal and not external any more Wired
- Here’s the MTG startup portfolio VentureBeat
- The subscription economy is taking over FastCompany
- Here’s what Google’s incubator Area 120 looks and works like FastCompany
- Alibaba’s voice recognition can now filter and isolate voices in noisy backgrounds Venturebeat
- Database of startup pitch-decks Airtable
- Chrome is turning 10 years old and here’s what’s new Google
- Telia and Ericsson launched Sweden’s first 5G network Telecoms
Transportation
- Lime tries to explain what and why they hired a controversial PR firm TechCrunch
- Trump administration seeks to end electric car tax credit WSJ
- Chinese regulators come down on Didi Reuters
- Madrid seeks further customer education from the electric scooter companies before they can come back DiDigital
- Article suggesting Apple should/would/could buy Tesla in 2019 Forbes
- NYC adds minimum wage limit for Uber/Lyft drivers CNN
- Facebook gave extra privileges to other tech giants FastCompany
- Lyft beats Uber to the filing of IPO – details still unclear Reuters
- Uber wasn’t very far behind though – filing for IPO two days after Lyft Venturebeat NYMag speculates what it means having sold products on discount until now though NyMagazine
Media
- Apple reports 56 M subscribers compared to Spotify’s 83 M DigitalMusicNews
- Tencent continues their plan towards a USD 1.2 Bn IPO Reuters
- ACAST confirms they’ve raised a Series C/pre-IPO of USD 35 M TechCrunch
- Hulu confirms 23 M subscribers TechCrunch
- Apple seems to be building a competitor to Swedish Soundtrack Your Brand Appleinsider
- Apple acquired music creation platform Platoon to enable musicians to post songs directly to Apple Music TechCrunch
XR
- Bose shows they’ve worked on some AR capabilities for wearable glasses VentureBeat
- Magic Leap reassigns CMO Brenda Freemand and CBO Rachna Bassin TechCrunch
- Magic Leap launches first paid app on the platform with Seedlings RoadtoVR
- AR spending rise 69% in 2019 Gameindustry
