SpaceX Dec 3 Launch LIVE from Vandenberg, Dec 5 from Cape Canaveral

Spaceflight SSO-A: SmallSat Express

UPDATE: SpaceX video above Dec 3, 2018: SpaceX's live launch webcast of the Spaceflight SSO-A: SmallSat Express mission to low Earth orbit on Monday, December 3 from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

The primary launch window opened at 10:32 a.m. PST, or 18:32 UTC. A series of six deployments occurred approximately 13-43 minutes after liftoff, after which Spaceflight (spaceflight.com) began to command its own deployment sequences, expected to occur over a period of six hours.

UPDATE: Dec 5, 2018 NASA Launch Schedule 1:16 p.m. EST: SpaceX CRS-16 Cargo Mission to International Space Station: an uncrewed SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft will lift off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, delivering supplies and equipment to the International Space Station.

UPDATE: December 5, 2018 - 1:16 p.m. EST launch:

Above: SpaceX video scheduled for Dec 5, 2018. SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, December 5 for the launch of its sixteenth Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-16) to the International Space Station. Liftoff is targeted for 1:16 p.m. EST, or 18:16 UTC, from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

Dragon will be filled with more than 5,600 pounds of supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support more than 250 science and research investigations that will occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.

The Dragon spacecraft that will support the CRS-16 mission previously supported the CRS-10 mission in February 2017. Following stage separation, SpaceX will attempt to recover Falcon 9’s first stage on Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

*Note: Youtube's event start time reflects the targeted liftoff time for this mission. SpaceX's live launch webcast will begin about 20 minutes before liftoff.

SpaceX 
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is a private U.S. aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.
domain: spacex.com

SpaceX CEO & Founder: Elon Musk
SpaceX founded: May 6, 2002
Number of employees: 7,000
Subsidiary: The Boring Company (boringcompany.com)

Dec. 18: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the U.S. Air Force's first third-generation navigation satellite for the Global Positioning System (GPS 3-01) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 9:24-9:50 a.m. EST (14:24-14:50 UTC).

Dec. 30: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 10 Iridium Next satellites (66-75) from Vandenberg Air Foce Base in California at 11:38 a.m. EDT (16:38 UTC).
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Tesla $TSLA Q3 2018 Earnings LIVE Webcast Oct 24 REPLAY

Tesla, Inc. (tesla.com) $TSLA Q3 2018 Financial Results and Q&A Webcast

Oct 24, 2018 3:30 PM PDT / 6:30 PM EDT
Listen to webcast (replay) and Earnings call transcript--SeekingAlpha.com

Tesla Q3 2018 Update Letter (pdf) excerpt below:

Tesla shares soar after surprise profit--SeekingAlpha.com Oct 24, 2018:

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Tech Review | Tesla $TSLA And Elon Musk's Wild August Ride (video)

Tech Review (TR 2018-09-01)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech investing news with commentary, analysis and opinion: Features • 1) Tesla $TSLA And Elon Musk's Wild August Ride (video), 2) Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in DC Sep 5, 3) Investing: The Week, Investing Notes: Stocks, Brexit, Trade, China, News: Signal or Noise? 4)ICYMI Tech News: Google, Amazon, Facebook, AI, Paypal.

1) Tesla $TSLA And Elon Musk's Wild August Ride

$TSLA

Baby you can drive my car, Yes I'm gonna be a star

Baby you can drive my car, And maybe I'll love you

--Drive My Car (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)

Tesla $TSLA: "After considering all of these factors, I met with Tesla’s Board of Directors yesterday and let them know that I believe the better path is for Tesla to remain public. The Board indicated that they agree."--Elon Musk writing on tesla.com (Aug 24, 2018). Look on the brightside--"According to ARK Invest’s research, Tesla should be valued somewhere between $700 and $4,000 per share  in five years. Taking Tesla private today at $420 per share would undervalue it greatly, depriving many investors of the opportunity to participate in its success. In our view, given the right investment time horizon, TSLA is a deep value stock today"--ark-invest.com. On the other hand: "The corporate-governance disaster that is Tesla continues--Jim Chanos.

Tesla And Elon Musk's Wild August Recapped

Tesla and its headline-stealing CEO Elon Musk had a wild August. Here's how the drama played out on CNBC: the month began with the electric car company reporting second-quarter earnings and Musk apologizing for some recent ill-advised outbursts. But a week later, the Tesla and SpaceX founder took to the social media platform to announce that he wanted to take the company private. It set off a media firestorm that consumed the business news cycle for weeks. But near the end of August, Musk had reversed his position on going private. CNBC.com video above published Aug 30, 2018.

2) Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: House Energy & Commerce Committee Hearing Sept 5

Twitter CEO Dorsey to testify before House panel on September 5 https://t.co/8OobPpllIz pic.twitter.com/GBteJpWWXJ

— Reuters Tech News (@ReutersTech) August 25, 2018

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) announced that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will testify before the committee the afternoon of Wednesday, September 5, 2018, regarding Twitter’s algorithms and content monitoring--energycommerce.house.gov.

3) Investing

The Week: NASDAQ Composite +2.26% | S&P 500 Index +0.93% | DJIA +0.68%  The month of August was positive: S&P 500 posted a +3% monthly rise, the Dow advanced +2.2% and the NASDAQ +5.7%.

The biggest winners in the stock market’s hottest sector in August--Technology has led the way, with AMD, Autodesk and Nvidia among the high-fliers--Marketwatch.com.

Wall Street's Charging Bull

Investing Notes:

'U.S. Consumer Confidence Surged in August to Near 18-Year High; Conference Board index climbed to 133.4 this month from 127.9 in July.' From WSJ: https://t.co/RjsexlqHlT

— Byron York (@ByronYork) August 28, 2018

• Warren Buffett Says 'I'm Buying Stocks' (video), including Apple $AAPL.

• Trade: U.S. wants quick progress on EU trade issues, officials say | reuters.com. President Donald Trump notified Congress on Friday, Aug 31, 2018, he intends to sign a trade deal with Mexico 90 days from now, and will include Canada "if it is willing," according to a statement from the U.S. Trade Representative--marketwatch.com. 

• Reality Check--No-Deal Brexit a/k/a Hard Brexit--UK Prime Minister Theresa May agrees that a no-deal Brexit 'wouldn't be the end of the world' ... the UK would continue trading--sky.com.

• US airlines cut flights to China--chinaeconomicreview.com.

• Malaysia PM confirms cancellation of $20 billion Chinese infrastructure projects--chinaeconomicreview.com.

• News: Signal or Noise? You're On Your Own: "today forty percent of the public believe the “[New York] Times” is biased and evil. And forty percent believe the same about “The Wall Street Journal.” There is no paper of record in the public’s mind. And only a few million people are paying attention to either of these outlets. Youngsters don’t read the newspaper, whether it be physical or virtual, they get their news on the fly, from multiple sources, where it originated does not matter ... Same deal for TV news. Most people don’t see it, check the ratings, they’re miniscule."--Lefsetz.com. 

If You Want to Survive this Election with Your Mental Health Intact, Turn Off the "News" and Social Media Now--charleshughsmith.blogspot.com.

 “To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.”--Nassim Taleb

 "Why You Should Stop Reading News"--Shane Parrish

4) ICYMI Tech News:

• Apple $AAPL: Banking on iPhone X: Apple's new phones are the razors, services are the blades--zdnet.com.

• Alphabet $GOOGL $GOOG: Google is facing obstacles in its efforts to establish a presence in China in search, smartphones, autonomous cars, and more--NYTimes.com. Editor's note: anyone surprised?

• Alibaba Puts the Brakes on U.S. Cloud Expansion--theinformation.com.

• U.S. accuses China of `super aggressive` spy campaign on LinkedIn--reuters.com.

• Amazon $AMZN: Amazon's Twitter Army--theguardian.com.

•  GDPR is strengthening the hand of giants such as Google and Facebook in the $200 billion global digital advertising industry--reuters.com.

• Artificial Intelligence (AI): Bank Of England Chief Economist Warns Of Disruptive AI Threat In "Fourth Industrial Revolution"--zerohedge.com. 

• PayPal partners with Brazilian bank Itaú Unibanco--reuters.com. PayPal also announced a partnership with British bank Barclays last April.

• Trump Effect: Ford kills plan to sell Chinese-made vehicles in the United States--reuters.com.

-- John Poole, Editor, Domain Mondo  

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Tech Review: 1) Collapsing Chinese Tech Stocks, 2) Tesla Turbulence

Tech Review (TR 2018-08-18)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech investing news with commentary, analysis and opinion: Features • 1) Tencent & Other Collapsing Chinese Tech Stocks, 2) Tesla $TSLA Turbulence, 3) Investing: The Week, Investing Notes, 4) ICYMI Tech News: Facebook, What's Next and more.

1) Tencent & Other Collapsing Chinese Tech Stocks 
Falls from recent highs in 2018 as of August 15, 2018:

• Tencent -27%  HK: 0700
• Alibaba Group -21% NYSE: BABA
• Baidu -23% NASDAQ: BIDU
• Xiaomi -23% HK: 1810
• HUYA -45% NYSE: HUYA

Aspects of Tencent stock fall 'attributed' to power politics in China

CNBC Life video published Aug 16, 2018: Gavin Parry, managing director at Parry Global Group (parry-group.com), discusses Tencent's latest surprising earnings report.

See also:

• Tencent Holdings Q2 2018 Earnings, LIVE Webcast, Aug 15, 8am EDT

• China’s central bank says e-commerce firms face profit squeeze and greater competition--chinaeconomicsreview.com.

• Alibaba $BABA: "In the best-case scenario, Alibaba is the goofiest, most convoluted, opaque, mismanaged accounting mess and business structure in history"--deep-throat-ipo.blogspot.com. See the Form 20-F.

• Asian gaming stocks tumble as China halts license approvals | reuters.com.

2) Tesla $TSLA Turbulence

$TSLA

Elon Musk Details ‘Excruciating’ Personal Toll of Tesla Turmoil | NYTimes.com 16 Aug 2018.

Tesla shares are getting slammed after Elon Musk's off-kilter interview with the NYT | CNBC.com 17 Aug 2018.

Elon Musk's 2018: Tesla, Flamethrowers and Lots of Tweets

Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) video above published Aug 15, 2018: Elon Musk's market-moving tweet about possibly taking Tesla private is just the latest erratic move in a tumultuous year for the CEO. See also: Tesla Is Said to Be Subpoenaed by S.E.C. Over Elon Musk Tweet | NYTimes.com 15 Aug 2018.

3) Investing

The Week: Dow, S&P 500 end the day and week higher buttressed by optimism over China-U.S. trade talks | MarketWatch.com.

Week ending 17 Aug 2018: NASDAQ Composite -0.3% | S&P 500 Index +0.6% | DJIA +1.4%

Wall Street's Charging Bull

Investing Notes: A Squeeze Is On

a. Grand Collapse in Turkey; to avoid the same fate, Argentina hikes rate to 45% | WolfStreet.com.

b. Rise of US Dollar Haunts Emerging Market Debt | WolfStreet.com 14 Aug 2018.

c. Tech still all the rage while bears prowl emerging markets: BAML survey | reuters.com.

d. Chinese banks’ bad loans grow at record pace in second quarter | chinaeconomicreview.com.

4) ICYMI Tech News:

Facebook: what's next?

FT.com video above published 16 Aug 2018: After Facebook's share price $FB plunge, what's next for the social network? The FT's Hannah Kuchler posts from shareholder, advertiser and user perspectives.

• Nvidia $NVDA Q2 FY19 Earnings, LIVE Webcast August 16, 5:30pm EDT: Nvidia says cryptocurrency-specific Q2 revenue was $18M, below its $100M estimate, down from $289M in Q1, projects no cryptocurrency contributions going forward.

• AI & Fintech: how artificial intelligence is transforming financial services--weforum.org.

• Walmart $WMT: World’s biggest retailer’s growth fueled by grocery business, boosts outlook for comparable sales, adjusted profit--Walmart Bounces Back With Best Sales in More Than a Decade | Bloomberg.com. See also: Walmart’s Ragtag Alliance Against Amazon--a plucky band of tech companies, icluding Google, Microsoft and JD.com--over a shared fear of Jeff Bezos--bloomberg.com.

• Chinese hackers targeted U.S. firms, government after trade mission: researchers | reuters.com.

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Tesla $TSLA Q2 2018 Financial Results, LIVE Webcast Aug 1, 5:30pm EDT

$TSLA August 7, 2018

UPDATE: Taking Tesla Private? The email that was sent to Tesla employees August 7, 2018.

Original Post:

Tesla, Inc. 

NASDAQ: TSLA

$TSLA

Principal domain: tesla.com

Investor Relations: ir.tesla.com

Q2 2018 Financial Results and Q&A Webcast Aug 1, 2018, 5:30pm EDT: Listen to webcast

Earnings Release (pdf) excerpts:

• Q2 Automotive gross margin increased to 20.6% GAAP and 21.0% non-GAAP 
• Model 3 gross margin turned slightly positive in Q2, expecting roughly 15% in Q3 
• Expecting to produce 50-55k Model 3s in Q3; deliveries should exceed that 
• Major cost restructuring executed in Q2 
• $2.2B of cash and cash equivalents at Q2-end, expected to grow in Q3 and Q4 
• Capex projection in 2018 adjusted to <$2.5B

Revenue of $4B (+43.4% Y/Y) beat consensus analysts estimate by $70M.

$TSLA shares are trading UP in after hours trading.

source: Statista.com 31 July 2018

Worth another retweet. Hope Dan Neil returns to Twitter. He left due to relentless attacks from short-sellers, who constantly peddle fear, uncertainty & doubt about Tesla. Dan won the Pulitzer & is considered by many to be the best car critic in the world. https://t.co/txW3DDJpth

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 26, 2018

Can Elon Musk make Tesla into a real car company? Featured in the July 16, 2018 issue of Bloomberg Businessweek.

See also: Tesla Shorts Are Scared, Exposed, & Desperate — Memo To Media: Don’t Be Duped--CleanTechnica.com.

We tried out a new delivery system using an enclosed trailer straight from factory to owner’s home, so super convenient & car arrives in pristine condition without wasting plastic wrap https://t.co/exNyhb0zOT

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 30, 2018

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk & $TSLA Shareholders' Wild Ride (video)

Tesla’s Wild Ride

L2inc.com video above re-published Jun 15, 2018: Scott Galloway's take on Elon Musk's $3.5B tantrum and what it means for Tesla’s shareholders, plus Recode.net's Kara Swisher weighs in.

Tesla, Inc. is a US-based multinational corporation that specializes in electric vehicles, energy storage and solar panel manufacturing, headquarters are in Palo Alto, California.

• Principal domain: tesla.com 
• Stock price: NASDAQ: TSLA $357.72 +12.94 (+3.75%) close June 14, 2018
• Founded: July 2003, San Carlos, CA
• CEO: Elon Musk

Sources referenced in the video:
(00:18) Source: “Tesla’s Elon Musk Mocks Analysts During Conference Call,” Fox Business, May 2018. https://bit.ly/2ybgQGr     
(01:03) Source: Clip from “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” 2005. https://imdb.to/2JCAxMS
(01:19) Source: Yahoo Finance.
(01:46) Source: Courtesy of Jim Chanos. https://bit.ly/2yaySZr
(03:08) Source: Yahoo Finance.
(03:30) Source: Yahoo Finance.

Auto-generated transcript from June 14 edition (unedited):
00:00 [Music]
00:01 what's a signal that a company may
00:03 struggle over the next year look at the
00:05 behavior of the CEO case in point
00:08 Tesla you can hear an Elon Musk voice
00:10 and in his recent behavior that he's
00:13 under a great deal of pressure and that
00:15 is about to get real and so where
00:18 specifically will you be in terms of
00:21 your next boring bonehead questions are
00:27 not cool
00:27 next what how what percentage have
00:30 actually taken steps to configure we're
00:36 gonna go to YouTube
00:38 sorry these questions are so dry they're
00:44 killing me when you're CEO it's your job
00:47 to answer stupid questions especially
00:49 questions from the investors who've
00:51 allowed you to raise money at four times
00:53 revenues versus less than 0.45 times
00:56 revenues for peers including General
00:59 Motors this is reminiscent of the days
01:01 of Enron you're the only financial
01:04 institution that can't produce a balance
01:06 sheet or a cash flow State know what
01:07 their earnings thank you very much we
01:14 appreciate mr. must high rate took the
01:19 company down seven percent translating
01:21 and doing in maturity tax that cost
01:23 shareholders three and a half billion
01:25 dollars there's no doubt mr. musk has
01:27 clearly under tremendous stress and the
01:29 board is not doing their job that
01:31 rejected two proposals to change board
01:33 leadership including one that would have
01:35 removed must from the chairmen position
01:37 and split it into two positions CEO and
01:39 chairman what they need to do is tell
01:41 them that it sucks to be a grown up must
01:44 behavior coupled with 40 significant
01:46 departures from the company recently are
01:48 all negative for looking indicators
01:51 however we could be wrong as Kara
01:52 Swisher highlighted in our interview
01:54 yesterday it's not that he's coming off
01:57 the rails it's just that he's sick of
01:59 doing very ambitious things and getting
02:00 70 or 80 percent of the way there and
02:02 then getting heckling from the cheap
02:04 seats he's landing a rocket on like a
02:08 platform in the middle of the ocean this
02:09 is not easy stuff he's making a car like
02:12 he's trying to change
02:13 rotation and whatever you think of him
02:16 these are big things big things and so
02:19 if you get 70% of the way there
02:21 yeah what some of the press does and me
02:23 too is say what happened to that 30%
02:26 ignoring the fact that he got 70% of the
02:28 way there I think even if he doesn't
02:29 succeed at it what he's doing is
02:31 important no he's gonna change the world
02:33 that's what we're moving to is the only
02:35 reason I give him just a little more
02:37 like over some dumb stupid photo app
02:39 that people argue over Tesla has an
02:42 amazing product I actually own a Tesla
02:45 not because I'm environmentally
02:46 conscious when you drive at us on the
02:47 East Coast you're spewing more carbon
02:49 into the air because it's not powered by
02:50 electricity it's powered by the coal
02:52 that produces electricity I bought it
02:54 because I want to signal to the world
02:55 that I am hippy granola and rich ie have
02:58 sex with me anyways the company lacks
03:01 the frictionless networking effects of a
03:03 Google or Facebook and doesn't have the
03:05 Hermes like margins of an Apple yet it's
03:07 trading at evaluation reflective of a
03:09 firm that can scale like a Facebook or
03:11 generate the profits of an apple by the
03:14 end of the year Tesla analysts will
03:16 begin wringing their hands over
03:17 liquidity concerns in dilution we
03:20 predicted the stock would fall for these
03:21 reasons however the stock rallied after
03:24 the board meeting on Wednesday as the
03:25 shareholder resolution to separate the
03:27 CEO and chairman roles was voted down
03:29 this was taken as an endorsement of
03:31 Musk's leadership and the stock
03:34 skyrocketed so so far we're wrong so far
03:39 we'll see you next week
03:41 [Music]

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Tech Review | Elon Musk Sticking To His Guns On Tesla Targets (video)

Tech Review (TR 2018-06-09)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech news with commentary, analysis and opinion: Features • 1) Elon Musk Sticking To His Guns On Tesla Targets, 2) Digital Ad Spend Finally Passed TV Ad Spend in 2017, 3) Investing: The Week, Investing Notes, 4) ICYMI Tech News.

1) Elon Musk Sticking To His Guns On Tesla Targets

Financial Times (ft.com) video above published Jun 6, 2018: CEO and co-founder of Tesla (domain: tesla.com), Elon Musk, said at the Tesla annual shareholder meeting on June 5, he will be able to stick to his goal of producing 5,000 Model 3 cars a week before the end of June and be cash-flow positive by the end of 2018.

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA)

2) Digital Ad Spend Finally Passed TV Ad Spend in 2017

source: Statista.com

Worldwide digital ad spend finally beat TV in 2017, with digital ad spend reaching $209 billion worldwide while TV ad spend stood at $178 billion, according to research agency Magna Global.

Legacy media still haven't gotten over it: Why magazine mogul Tina Brown is 'angry and upset' at Google and Facebook | Recode.net: “I am very angry and upset about the way advertising revenue has been essentially pirated by the Facebook-Google world, without nearly enough giveback — no giveback, really — to the people who create those brilliant pieces that are posted all over their platforms,” Brown said. “It’s high time they gave back to journalism.”

And to add salt to the wound--a Japan millennial has made a newsroom staffed by engineers.that runs on artificial intelligence. NewsDigest is one of most popular news apps in Japan--PRESS.net: "an app called “NewsDigest,” is the biggest news bulletin app in Japan, boasting over 1 million downloads. It is gaining popularity because of its ability to use AI to automatically detect and deliver news bulletins on information worth reporting ... The problem facing the news media, when stated in concrete terms, is that the dwell time of consumers on media such as newspapers and television, which make up the majority of the “news,” is being lost to other media sources. This reduces advertising and subscription revenue, which is proportional to dwell time (i.e., it is a problem of distribution channels and revenue)."

3) Investing

The Week: NASDAQ Composite +1.2% | S&P 500 Index +1.6% | DJIA +2.8%

Dow posts best week since March, as investors shrug off G-7 tensions--MarketWatch.com June 8, 2018.

"No one can kill the cycles of business, but Trump has given us ‘extra innings’ in this one"--Sam Zell on the real estate cycle, interest rates, and immigration | MarketWatch.com.

"All fear has left markets again as markets have rallied steadily into early June. $VIX has printed an 11 handle again, tech and small caps are making new highs. Optimism is back in full swing and right here and now bulls are coming out in full swing. Notably Tony Dwyer of Canaccord Tenuity appeared on CNBC Fast Money last night and highlighted his reasons for raising his S&P target to 3,200 by the end of the year."--Bull Rebuttal | ZeroHedge.com. 

Wall Street's Charging Bull

Investing Notes:

I am heading for Canada and the G-7 for talks that will mostly center on the long time unfair trade practiced against the United States. From there I go to Singapore and talks with North Korea on Denuclearization. Won’t be talking about the Russian Witch Hunt Hoax for a while!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 8, 2018

Update on the Fed’s QE Unwind | WolfStreet.com 8 June 2018. Editor's note: Goodbye ZIRP, normalization underway via Mnuchin (Treasury), Powell (Fed), Trump (White House).

G7 more noise than signal?

• "The Old Order Is Over": Trump To "Confront" G-7 As Macron Plans On "Standing Up" To US President | ZeroHedge.com.

• YouTube LIVE

• Twitter: @g7 and @realDonaldTrump and #G7Charlevoix

• See also MacroView: US Trade Policy and US Interest Rates Impact Global Markets

Fraudulent Chinese Companies Pose Risk to U.S. Markets: Carson Block | Bloomberg.com: "I don’t think there’s any parallel in the history of capital markets where you’ve had this systemic issue of literally hundreds of frauds going to another country’s capital market to suck up capital and expatriate it to their home country"--Carson Block.

Bitcoin? Anybody? Lackluster interest, wallet growth is slow--DataTrekResearch.com.

US: the number of full-time jobs increased by 904k in May to 128.66 million, one of the largest monthly jumps on record--ZeroHedge.com

The person who’s best at lying to you is you--The man who coined the Dunning–Kruger effect says we're most gullible to ourselves | QZ.com: "Gullibility to oneself is not a modern phenomenon. But the effects are exacerbated in the age of social media, when false information spreads rapidly. “We’re living in a world in which we’re awash with information and misinformation,” says Dunning. “We live in a post-truth world.” ... The issue is that the current environment convinces people they’re more informed than they actually are."

4) ICYMI Tech News:

• Fintech: Payments platform Alipay's global plans funded--Ant Financial raises $14 billion in world's largest-ever single fundraising | Reuters.com: “Now, with the help of our partners, we are going to accelerate our strategy”--Ant CEO Eric Jing.
• Apple WWDC: No immediate catalysts to get to $1 trillion market cap | MarketWatch.com: iPhone news is still the biggest $AAPL mover.
• ZTE: Secretary Ross Announces $1.4 Billion ZTE Settlement; ZTE Board, Management Changes and Strictest BIS Compliance Requirements Ever | Department of Commerce | commerce.gov: Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says US has struck a deal with ZTE, including a $1B penalty and a US-chosen compliance team to be embedded at ZTE.
• ‘Fortnite’ more important than cryptocurrency to large companies during earnings season | MarketWatch.com: online game ‘Fortnite’ banked $296 million in April, up from $223 million in March.
• Alibaba: "In addition to growing China sales by over 40%, Alibaba's international sales skyrocketed by 233% YoY in fiscal year 2017"--SeekingAlpha.com.
• Amazon's AWS provides the U.S. Intelligence Community commercial cloud capability across all classification levels: Unclassified, Sensitive, Secret, and Top Secret--ZeroHedge.com.
• Netflix is getting crushed in India, and it's all because of Amazon and Hotstar | AndroidCentral.com: Amazon Prime Video and Hotstar, an Indian streaming service, are outcompeting Netflix in India through aggressive pricing and strong content libraries. Hotstar is an Indian digital and mobile entertainment platform launched in February 2015 by Star India. It provides streaming media and video-on-demand online.
• How North Korea’s Hackers Became Dangerously Good--WSJ.com
• AT&T: "Buy T shares only if the government successfully blocks the Time Warner deal"--SeekingAlpha.com.
• Google: "more than one-third of all mobile searches are related to location"--blog.google.
• Games & Gamers: The Videogame Industry Powers Up | WSJ.com: Next week’s annual E3 expo draws attention to the industry’s explosive growth.

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News Review | Europe Tells ICANN Again, No GDPR Moratorium

Domain Mondo's weekly internet domain news review (NR 2018-06-03) with analysis and opinion: Features •  1) a. European Data Protection Board Tells ICANN, Again, No GDPR Moratorium, b. Handbook on European data protection law (2018 edition) 2) Other ICANN news: ICANN62 Webinar and more, 3) Names, Domains & Trademarks, 4) ICYMI Internet Domain News, 5) Most Read Posts.

UPDATE 6 June 2018--ICANN v. EPAG Domainservices, GmbH | ICANN.org--ICANN published the German and English translations of EPAG documents filed in the German Court case in which ICANN's application for an injunction was denied: EPAG Protective Letter (German) [PDF 12.2 MB] and Affidavit of Alexander Schwertner (German) [PDF 145 KB]. English Translations below are unofficial; provided for information purposes only:

• English Translation of EPAG Protective Letter [PDF, 143 KB] embed below, 

• English Translation of Affidavit of Alexander Schwertner [PDF, 69 KB]

1) European Data Protection Board Tells ICANN, Again, No GDPR Moratorium

a. GDPR & WHOIS: In a week where a German Court rejected ICANN org's strong-arm attempt to maintain the public WHOIS personal data status quo, ICANN was also notified that the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) endorsed the statement of the WP29 on ICANN/WHOIS | edpb.europa.eu--27 May 2018 letter (embed below) to ICANN, excerpt:

"The European Data Protection Board endorsed the statement of the WP29 on ICANN/WHOIS during its first plenary meeting on 25 May ... The GDPR does not allow national supervisory authorities nor the European Data Protection Board (the WP29 will become the EDPB on 25 May 2018) to create an “enforcement moratorium” for individual data controllers. Data protection is a fundamental right of individuals, who may submit complaints to their national data protection authority whenever they consider that their rights under the GDPR have been violated ..." (emphasis added). 

Full embed below:

https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/alsenoy-to-plexida-swinehart-27may18-en.pdf

Editor's note: see also News Review | GDPR Moratorium Just Another ICANN 'Fantasy' 29 April 2018. For more on the GDPR & ICANN WHOIS, including litigation in Germany, see last week's News Review | GDPR Effect: ICANN Sues German Domain Name Registrar and updates therein.

I also recommend reading former ICANN staffer Kieren McCarthy's take on the events in Germany last week, including his review of how ICANN repeatedly deluded itself to reach this sorry state:

"... for an organization with a self-importance that often leads it down a path to delusion, being told that your most important contract is effectively unenforceable has to sting .... ICANN as an organization also has an opportunity to change with the times. The CEO and board have been able to see first hand how they were given terrible advice time and again from their own staff. The next year would be a good time to clean house and install a more diverse, open-minded and international team ..."

UPDATE: LIVE twitter feed of the European Data Protection Supervisor: Tweets by EU_EDPS b. Handbook on European data protection law (2018 edition) (pdf) (402 pages.):

Editor's Note: the manuscript for this handbook was completed in April 2018.

2) Other ICANN news

a. Pre-ICANN62 90 minute Policy Webinar 12 June 2018 | ICANN.org: Pre-ICANN62 Policy Webinar Tuesday, 12 June 2018 at 10:00 UTC and at 19:00 UTC. The webinar will run in English with simultaneous Spanish interpretation. The presentation materials will be translated into Spanish, and posted following the Webinar with the recordings of the sessions here. Register via this form by 11 June 2018. [Editor's note: ICANN62 Panama City, Panama, is June 25-28. See also ICANN Adobe Connect services restored effective 1 June 2018--ICANN.org.]

b. 29 May 2018 Letter (pdf) from NCSG Chair Farzaneh Badiei to ICANN Board Chair Cherine Chalaby--Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group's Input on ICANN's Fiscal Year 2019 Budget

 (full embed below):

See: ICANN Board Adopts the FY19 Operating Plan and Budget | ICANN.org

UPDATE June 4, 2018: Notice of ICANN Board Approval of FY19 Operating Plan and Budget to the Decisional Participants in the Empowered Community and the Empowered Community Administration: Pursuant to Section 22.4(a)(v) of the ICANN Bylaws: notice to the EC Administration and Decisional Participants in the Empowered Community that on 30 May 2018 the ICANN Board approved the FY19 Operating Plan and Budget. The resolution approving the FY19 Operating Plan and Budget is available at here. The FY19 Operating Plan is available here. The FY19 Budget is available here.

c. ICANN Reviews Webinars--ICANN.org: ICANN invites the community to attend one of two webinars being held to discuss short-term options and long-term options on the timeline of ICANN Reviews. The presentation will be identical for both one-hour webinars, scheduled as follows: Webinar 1: 07 June 2018: 5:00 UTC [local time] or Webinar 2: 07 June 2018:17:00 UTC [local time].

d. ICYMI: DENIC eG [domain: denic.de] as New ICANN-Designated Agent to Support Registrar Data Escrow Services | ICANN.org : "... ICANN org selected DENIC through a competitive Request for Proposal initiated in August 2017, following requests from the registrar community to expand the RDE program, in part to meet regional challenges such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation [GDPR]. ... The Registrar Data Escrow program is intended to protect registrants in the event of registrar failure or termination of a Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) ..." More information at the link above.

3) Names, Domains & Trademarks

a. Tips for cleaning up WHOIS data | EPAG.de: "... To prevent personal data in an organization contact from being displayed in a public WHOIS, we recommend ... roles rather than personal names for Organization contact details ... use a generic company email address like “info@company.com” ... remove personal data from any organization contacts ... These tips give registrants the added advantage that their organization is not reliant on a particular person (for example during a transfer), should that person be out of the office or no longer employed by the company."

b. How to Choose a Domain Name That Will Stand the Test of Time | SearchEngineJournal.com: "...  9. What TLD? ...  follow this rule: Is your target market global (as in do your potential customers live all over the world)? Yes: Choose .COM.
No: Choose a TLD for the country you’re targeting [ccTLD] ... Why? Google doesn’t give any priority to keywords in your TLD ... Most potential customers would guess your domain ended in “.com”. The same goes for your email address ... A “.COM” or a country TLD [ccTLD] is more trustworthy and known than keyword gTLDs (e.g., “.BIKE”) ..."

c. Banished by the Google God: 16 Ways to Get Deindexed by Google | .searchenginejournal.com

d. U.S. District Judge Orders (pdf) Partial Dismissal in Mainstream Advertising's Trademark Infringement Case--In January 2018, Mainstream Advertising filed its second amended complaint, alleging trademark infringement, wrongful garnishment/seizure, abuse of process, conversion and Accounting. Moniker then filed its motion to dismiss--Florida Record | flarecord.com.

e. Tesla CEO Elon Musk registered the domain name Pravduh.com after saying he would create a site to rate reporters--CNBC.com.

4) ICYMI Internet Domain News 

a. IGF2018 Update: "In view of the offer of the Government of France to host the 2018 IGF in Paris the week of 12 November, the deadline for workshop submissions has been extended ..." The new deadline is 6 June 2018, 23:59 UTC.

b. InternetNZ funds work on mobile services, internet addiction | computerworld.co.nz

c. Geoblocking: Amazon.com, Inc. will force Australians to use its Australian website instead of its much larger U.S. site to avoid a new sales tax.

d. EU & GDPR:

• EU censorship machines and link tax laws are nearing the finish line | juliareda.eu: "In stark contrast to the GDPR, experts near-unanimously agree that the copyright reform law, as it stands now, is really bad." EU governments agree on copyright reform, which still needs EU parliament approval, to let news sites charge aggregators for snippets and force upload filters on websites.
• Tech groups raise concerns EU ePrivacy plan could kill innovation | siliconrepublic.com
• EU data privacy laws are likely to create barriers to trade says Wilbur Ross, U.S. Commerce Secretary--ft.com: "We do not have a clear understanding of what is required to comply ... GDPR also raises concern for law enforcement and intellectual property rights by restricting access to publicly available internet domain-name registration data ..."
• EU Data Privacy Law (GDPR) Creates New Business for Tech Consultants--WSJ.com.
• NYTimes.com and noyb.eu: an Austrian privacy advocacy group has filed complaints against  Google and Facebook and two of Facebook’s subsidiaries, WhatsApp and Instagram, claiming they failed to give European users specific control over the use of their data, in violation of the GDPR, and asking regulators to impose fines--$4.3 billion on Google’s parent company, Alphabet, and $1.5 billion each on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp--roughly 4 percent of each company’s 2017 revenue, the maximum penalty allowed under the GDPR.
• 5 unexpected consequences of GDPR | TechRadar.com
• ICANN "has been too slow to react to the global impact of the GDPR.”--Andy Kays, CTO at Redscan--WHOIS GDPR Denial Will Harm Security Industry, But ICANN To Blame |informationsecuritybuzz.com.

5) The three most read posts this past week on DomainMondo.com: 

1. News Review | GDPR Effect: ICANN Sues German Domain Name Registrar

2. Tech Review: 1) Powering the Internet of Things; 2) Switzerland & Crypto

3. Saildrones: The Robots Roaming the High Seas (video)

-- John Poole, Editor, Domain Mondo 

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