CNBC: German multinational Siemens is expanding its already sizeable Middle East presence by investing in the digital sphere, to the tune of $500 million over the next three years. [...] The company plans to build 20 MindSphere Application … [Continue reading]
“Lyft’s Strategist Wants Self-Driving Electric Cars to Save the World”
Bloomberg: Raj Kapoor thinks autonomous vehicles will save the Earth. With some caveats. “The big idea is actually making sure that we have all four together: autonomous, electric, shared rides with shared ownership,” explains the chief strategy … [Continue reading]
“Tumbling Costs for Wind, Solar, Batteries Are Squeezing Fossil Fuels”
Bloomberg: BNEF’s latest report on the levelized costs of electricity, or LCOE, for all the leading technologies finds that fossil fuel power is facing an unprecedented challenge in all three roles it performs in the energy mix – the supply of … [Continue reading]
“China’s blockchain ambitions are revealed in the sheer number of patent applications”
Echo Huang at Quartz: How hot is blockchain in China? “Even vendor aunties selling vegetables are talking about blockchain” is a saying spreading widely on social media—and it isn’t much of an exaggeration. Chinese companies, if not street … [Continue reading]
“Media vs. Facebook: This time it’s personal”
Axios: Facebook and Google execs privately complain about the barrage of critical coverage they face, charging that media companies have a financial incentive to attack them and that media execs are settling scores. They're right. [...] Many … [Continue reading]
Podcast App Breaker, Social Discovery and the Portable Social Graph
Marshall Kirkpatrick: Discovering a great new podcast is a real thrill and a relatively new app called Breaker makes it easy to do. It uses your friend list from Twitter or other social networks to tap you into a stream of podcast listening … [Continue reading]
“Judging Apple Watch’s Success”
John Gruber at Daring Fireball: But if Apple gets it into its head that they should only work on iPhone-sized opportunities, it would paralyze the company. In baseball terms, it’s fine for Apple to hit a bunch of singles while waiting for their … [Continue reading]
“The first generation of CDs is already rotting and dying”
Peter Kirn at CDM Create Digital Music: The failure of CDs seems to be more of a case of marketing getting divorced from science. We’re never free of the constraints of the physical world. As an archivist will tell you, we have to simple adapt – … [Continue reading]
No Meaningful Corporate Governance on Either Google or Facebook
Ben Thompson at Stratechery (paywall): It’s also worth noting that the very forces that make it possible for first Larry Page and Sergey Brin and later Zuckerberg to maintain control of their companies — the fact they grew so quickly that they were … [Continue reading]
“There is no “technology industry””
Anil Dash: Once upon a time, it made perfect sense to talk about “the high tech industry” in America — pioneering companies like Intel or Fairchild Semiconductor or IBM or Hewlett Packard made computer processors and related hardware, and most of … [Continue reading]
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