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Last month at a chip conference in San Francisco, the United States Department of Defense’s investment arm for emerging technologies kicked off a plan to make $1.5 billion in grants over the next five years to ...
I remember Google co-founder Sergey Brin calling me up in 2010 to tell me why Google was shutting down its censored Chinese search engine. China has "made great strides against poverty and whatnot," he told me. "But nevertheless, in some aspects of their policy, particularly with respect to censorship, with respect to surveillance of dissidents, I see the same earmarks of ...
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Binta Niambi Brown
on Are Autonomous Cars Safer? New Guidelines Probably Won’t Tell Us
"The government shouldn't be relying on old tech to collect data in a new tech environment... if there are regulations, automakers should be required to have appropriate recording technology in the vehicles for data collection purposes. Anything else is well, a waste of time and energy and a great way to have poorly reported and/or unreliable data ..."
Michael Schmitz
on Uber, Lyft Face New Restrictions in New York City
This is a shot across the bow for all those companies that have wanted to hang their hat on social impact and benefit as part of their add value for the real world places (cities) that they are dropping into without first winning over policy makers and their constituencies.
Fazal Majid
on The Reality Behind Voice Shopping Hype
Even something as simple as eggs turns out to be not that simple. Organic? Cage-free? Large or jumbo? Omega-3? Refilling standing orders of preconfigured staples is one thing, but that's replicating the Dash button, not actual shopping. Amazon as a retailer may think people's lives revolve around shopping (remember the short-lived Fire phone's dedicated shopping button?) but this smacks of the “build it and they will come” fallacy.
Dennis Hong
on How Uber Eats Became a Hit Business
We believe that Uber has a structural customer-acquisition cost advantage because of its global brand recognition and ability to leverage its app user base. However, we believe there are [seven] factors that will insulate scaled incumbents like GrubHub from Uber’s advances....
Paul Marcum
on Google Developing News App for China
Some recommended updates for this "about our company" page:
“Organize the world’s information and make it
universallypartially accessible and useful as a means of social control.”Since the beginning, our goal has been to develop services that significantly improve the lives of as many
peopleshareholders and authoritarians as possible.Not just for some shareholders and authoritarians. For every
oneshareholder and authoritarian.Fazal Gupta
on Why Google Cloud Is Still a Work in Progress
The cloud business does pose an interesting challenge for Google as a company. Although Google will likely figure out the strategy as well as technology aspects to win in this market, its biggest challenge is figuring out the cultural shift to deal with enterprises.
Thomas Harding
on How Snap Made Direct Response Ads a Big Business
Snap ads are a goldmine for direct response marketers right now.
Admittedly the creative for can be a little tricky, but with a bit of persistence, we've been seeing at least a 50% lower CPC than on Instagram. Sooner or later more of the market will wise up to this!