December Ford And Alibaba Team Up For Car Sales In China (Reuters, 6/12/2017) Google Is Testing A New Feature On Mobile (Google, 7/12/2017) Facebook‘s Instagram Will Soon Have Its Standalone Messaging App? (The Verge, 7/12/2017) Is Apple Going To Acquire Shazam For $400m? (Reuters, 9/12/2017) FCC Kills Net Neutrality (TechCrunch,… Read More
HB Monthly Wrap – November
November Tesla Q3 Earnings Results (Tesla, 1/11/2017) Apple Q4 Earnings Results (Apple, 2/11/2017) Comcast‘s Xfinity Is Down (TechCrunch, 6/11/2017) Parity Wallet Disclosed A Security Alert (Parity Wallet, 8/11/2017) More About AT&T’s Time Warner Merger Lawsuit (The Verge, 21/11/2017) Apple Acquired VR Startup Vrvana For $30m (TechCrunch, 21/11/2017) FCC Will Decide Net Neutrality Regulations On December (FCC, 21/11/2017)… Read More
HB Monthly Wrap – October
October Yahoo Rolls Out A Nightmare Update: All Of 3bn Accounts Were Hit By 2013 Breach (Yahoo, 3/10/2017) ICO Is Not A Misspelling Of IPO… (TechCrunch, 3/10/2017) After 20 Years, Goodbye AOL Instant Messenger! (The Guardian, 6/10/2017) Virgin Invested In Hyperloop One (Virgin, 12/10/2017) More About FB, Google And Anti-Refugee Campaigns During The 2016 Election (Bloomberg, 18/10/2017) Apple & GE Announced Deep Partnership (Apple, 18/10/2017) Lyft Raises… Read More
HB Monthly Wrap – September
September FB‘s WhatsApp Is Rolling Out A New Free Business App (WhatsApp, 5/09/2017) Equifax Discloses Data Leak That Could Involve 143m Consumers (Equifax, 7/09/2017) Apple‘s iPhone Event 2017 Roundup (TechCrunch, 12/09/2017) Is Google Thinking About Investing In Lyft? (Axios, 14/09/2017) Nestlè Acquires Majority Stake Of Blue Bottle (Financial Times, 14/09/2017) Flex Freight Startup Believes In Paperworks Digitisation (TechCrunch, 21/09/2017) Uber Was Stopped… Read More
HB Monthly Wrap – August
August Apple Q3 Earnings Results (Apple, 1/08/2017) FB‘s Instagram Stories Turns One Year And Its Daily Users Surpass Snapchat (Instagram, 2/07/2017, TechCrunch,2/07/2017) About New Currency Bitcoin Cash (The Telegraph, 2/08/2017) Snap Q2 Earnings (Snap, 10/08/2017) Blue Apron‘s First Earnings Report After IPO (MarketWatch, 10/08/20179) Hard Times For SoundCloud! (TechCrunch, 11/08/2017) Bitcoin Passed $4000 Valuation (CNBC, 12/08/2017) Amazon Launched ‘Instant Pickup Points’ In The US (Reuters,… Read More
HB Monthly Wrap – July
July Vantiv Will Acquire Worldpay For £9.1bn (The Independent, 5/07/2017) Baidu Acquired KITT.AI (KITT.AI, 5/07/2017) Amazon‘s Prime Day To Remember! (TechCrunch, 12/07/2017) More About SoundCloud‘s Layoffs (TechCrunch, 12/07/2017) Google Acquired Indian AI Startup Halli Labs (Halli Labs, 12/07/2017) Google Glass Enterprise Edition Are A Practical Workplace Tool (Wired, 18/07/2017) Lyft Launched A Self-Driving Division And Announced The Opening Of A Facility In Palo… Read More
HB Montly Wrap – June
June Blue Apron Files For IPO (TechCrunch, 1/06/2017) Uber‘s Head Of Finance Is Leaving, As The Company Reported $708m Losses (The Wall Street Journal, 1/06/2017) Apple Word Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) Roundup (TechCrunch, 5/06/20179) More Cuts At Uber (TechCrunch, 8/06/2017) SoftBank Will Acquire A Couple Of Google’s Robotic Firms (SoftBank,… Read More
HB Weekly Wrap 22-28 May — AI Overshadows Bitcoin
A prime example of a hard nut to crack? Try with latest news in tech-land, where AI-related activity populates most of the websites we monitor daily. Certain trends leave little room to the imagination — quite literally. In a story headed “After beating the world’s elite Go players, Google’s AlphaGo… Read More
HB Weekly Wrap 8-14 May – How To Halt ‘A Global Hacking Attack For A Tenner’
“UK cyber security researcher slams brakes on virus” ran the headline in the Financial Times on Saturday. “It is not often that you can halt a global hacking attack for a tenner. But when you do, you spend your money fast,” the FT wrote, adding that “although Friday’s attack infected… Read More
HB Weekly Wrap 24-30 April – Google’s Green Card in Cuba…
Google’s owner Alphabet has ambitions to match, yet apart from dreams that often come come true when it comes to the American behemoth’s strategy, what was truly shocking in recent days was the announcement that it had managed to strike a deal in Cuba that could carry great significance. While… Read More