Tech
- How Google works your search results WSJ
- Northzone raise USD 500 M, EQT USD 700 M and Balderton USD 300 M and the golden days of venture funded start-ups seems to continue DiDigital
- Techy gift suggestions for the holiday season of 2019 WSJ
- 1Password – a service for encryption and randomisation for passwords that has been bootstrapped for 14 years now raised USD 200 M from Accel for a minority stake in the company 1Password
- Interview with TikTok CEO in the NYT on how or what or what not to think of TikTok in terms of being a spyware or just an app for music, dance and meme lovers NYT
- An outline on how the US facial recognition program works and how it collects data – and how it captured its reportedly to date 7.4 M biometric scans Medium
Media
- How the war between streaming media giants will leave someone or many behind TheEconomist
- Netflix to shoot their first Scandinavian movie with SF Studios DiDigital
- How the BritBox is trying to stand up agains the streaming wars TheGuardian
- Bytedance (TikTok) about to launch music streaming service? That would/could become a serious competitor to Spotify, Apple Music and more DiDigital
- Spotify adds daily personalised playlist for podcasts – certainly not just an experiment for the platform any longer and I totally appreciate it TheVerge
- Apple Music about to give Soundtrack Your Brand some competition by entering the Muzak business too WSJ
- Details about each of the streaming war giants in the US WSJ
- Edison release first Podcast report on listenings, the segment certainly is growning Podnews
- Barry McCarthy soon to leave Spotify speaks out about TikTok’s coming music streaming service MusicBusinessWorldwide
- How to navigate between the streaming services apart from using Playpilot of course… Here’s a pro’s and con’s list of each of the major players TheVerge
Transportation
- Tesla announced its Cybertruck – the sixth model the company have launched. The presentation itself didn’t go to well but its revealed anyway TechCrunch
XR
- Magic Leap loses CFO Scott Henry and Special effects wizard John Gaeta. Henry will remain as advisor to the company but had to take a step back after a spinal surgery 6 months ago MagicLeap
Statistics
- The playbook on user acquisition AppAnnie
Podcast
- Morning Brew podcast “Business Casual” on the streaming wars Spotify
- Today, explained boiling down the impeachment hearings with a summary of the “most important hearing” with ambassador Sonnland TuneIn
Finance & Politics
- Looks like Micael Bloomberg is about to get into the debate of democratic presidential candidates BBC | and yes, he has confirmed he’s in the race NYT
- How and who to keep track of in the US impeachment inquiry on President Donald J. Trump NYT
- Iran shut down internet following protests on among others increased petrol prices Netblocks
