Listen to my interview with fantastic founder of Magic Leap – Rony Abovitz, about X-verses, Magic Leap, Mako and what he’s up to next. Link to the V66podcast

Tech

• The Warpin and PostNord collaboration got featured by Reuters and highlighted by World Economic Forum.
• Apple’s path on building a microchip company within the company to compete on Spatial computing headset and more WSJ
• The spread (and yes this is a fairly old article) of misinformation travels at a magnitude of 10x that of actual information through Social media according to a study from MIT published in the MIT Science magazine – Thank you Rony for sharing!
• Snap is making your cell phone an AR enhanced dressing room DI
• Google bought a company specializing in Micro LED displays – a sign the company is interested in Augmented Reality headsets TheVerge | TheInformation
• Amazon seem to be using Alexa voice data to target you with ads TheVerge
• Snap and Livenation team up on AR experiences from concerts Musically
• Peggy Johnson on the future of Magic Leap and when and what AR will be WSJ, awesome in relation to the interview I performed with Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz V66

Media

• The Obamas are leaving Spotify in order to achieve better reach DiDigital
• Former President Barack Obama further says social medias are well designed to destroy democracies TechCrunch and outlines a plan on how to tackle disinformation TheVerge | WashingtonPost
• Spotify now allows all podcast creators to post videos to their podcasts – going video? TechCrunch
• Playpilot released – in my opinion – a game changing matching and personalisation suggestion service to get individualised suggestions based on your rating history DagensMedia
• CNN+ shuts down because of internal – well seems like no-one knows – struggle just weeks after its launch. NYT
• Is content king or not? Here’s a piece that argues it may not be for companies such as Netflix and its likes BenEvans
• Netflix turning away from the formerly very decentralised decision making system TheInformation
• Ad spend on connected TV platforms is expected to grow 39% in 2022 to USD 21.2 Bn according to IAB SPGlobal
• Roku together with PR firm Apollo makes bid for a piece of Starz from Lionsgate Variety
• Spotify’s podcast report for 2022
• Disney added almost 8M new subscribers to Disney+ last quarter WSJ

Want to dig deeper into the Swedish inflation? Check out SCB – it doesn’t seem to slow down… 

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Remember SPACs? 

Venture Capital losing momentum. 

How Amereicans sympathising with different parties believe in science

WFH seem to remain of interest for employees

Shein keep growing its fast-fashion market share in the US

Spotify and Amazon kept growing paid memberships in the US