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“It’s About to Get a Lot Easier for Apps to Talk to Each Other”

Posted on 10. August 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Klint Finley at WIRED: Starting today, developers can embed IFTTT within apps and enable users to connect the hundreds of apps that the service supports. That means that the world of apps is about to get a bit more like the web. Just as any website … [Continue reading]

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Cord Cutting Continues to Accelerate

Posted on 10. August 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Jan Dawson at Beyond Devices: This is going to be a longish post, in which I’ll dive into lots of the detail around what’s really happening in the US pay TV market. But the headline here is that cord-cutting continues to accelerate, a trend that’s … [Continue reading]

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“Everything That Makes China’s New Traffic-Straddling Bus So Fascinating”

Posted on 5. August 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Jalopnik: So, how does a radical drivable bridge that costs (according to initial estimates from 2010) $75 million or so save money? By making it possible to not spend about ten times that much building a subway system. (...) We see there that the … [Continue reading]

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Every Day Major Music Companies Earn $10M Million In Streaming Revenue

Posted on 4. August 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Bruce Houghton at hypebot: This week Sony Music reported a 39% year-on-year rise in digital streaming revenue to $25 million a week or $3.3 million per day. Universal reports earning just over $4 million per day and Warner Music logs in at about $2 … [Continue reading]

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“Twitter is the strange new kingmaker of the 21st century”

Posted on 4. August 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Jillian York at Quartz: And so the verification policy gives Twitter—a corporation whose purpose it is to maximize shareholder profit—the ability to play kingmaker. By verifying a 17-year-old kid whose funny Vine posts have gotten him thousands of … [Continue reading]

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“Tesla’s entire future depends on the Gigafactory’s success, and Elon Musk is doubling down”

Posted on 3. August 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Michael J. Coren at Quartz: While it builds out its factory, Tesla is racing against a global ramp-up in lithium-ion battery production. China’s BYD has poured billions into its own battery cell technology that will likely match Tesla’s battery … [Continue reading]

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50 Billion Hamsters

Posted on 3. August 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Jason Koebler for Motherboard on Tesla’s Gigafactory: The Gigafactory is this revolution’s home base, its command center. The company literally moved mountains—excavating parts of the Nevada foothills to fit its massive footprint. Right now, the … [Continue reading]

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“Fintech isn’t disrupting Africa’s financial industry—it’s building it”

Posted on 3. August 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Wim van der Beek, managing partner atGoodwell Investments, at Quartz: African fintech is not disrupting the existing financial service providers. This is because, in many areas of the continent, there is nothing to disrupt, with large swathes of … [Continue reading]

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“Here’s an example of India leading the world in tech infrastructure”

Posted on 3. August 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Sumit Chakraberty at Tech in Asia: India has the world’s largest digital identity infrastructure. It’s called Aadhar, and has more than 1 billion users. That makes it one of the largest platforms in the world, alongside Facebook, Android, and MS … [Continue reading]

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“ARM: The $32B Pivot and Revolution”

Posted on 26. July 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Jean-Louis Gassée at Monday Note on ARM’s business outlook: None of these opportunities, from ubiquitous but low-end IoT devices, to high-end but low volume Cloud servers, promise higher revenues and profits… which might explain the generally … [Continue reading]

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Author: Marcel Weiss is a writer, consultant and fighter for pareto-optima. He is thinking and linking from Berlin, Germany.

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