Greycroft's Alan Patricof on Big Tech & Antitrust Concerns (video)

The big tech companies are smothering small start-ups. Minor changes to a platform’s algorithms can harm a business’s traffic overnight.--Alan Patricof, Silicon Valley VC

Greycrofts' Patricof: There are legitimate antitrust concerns surrounding big tech

Washington is taking aim at big tech, and Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook could be vulnerable to antitrust actions. Alan Patricof, co-founder and managing partner at Greycroft Ventures (greycroft.com), joins the discussion on CNBC's "Squawk Box." CNBC Television video  above published Jun 6, 2019.

"Let’s face it, the Internet is a utility and so are the corporations who control it .... Technology needs to be regulated."--Alan Patricof.

Alan Patricof, April 10, 2019:

"From my vantage point in the venture capital industry, it is apparent that many start-ups are failing or changing their business models because of their dependence on Amazon, Facebook or Google. The situation has progressed to the point where venture capitalists discount companies that rely on a digital platform to reach their markets."

I'm concerned about the influence tech giants have over our business and societal landscape. Read the full version of my piece that was originally published in @FinancialTimes. https://t.co/HVGo3MvHgH

— alan patricof (@alanjpatricof) April 30, 2019

In case you missed it, check out my article in today's Financial Times. https://t.co/c61Q4jyLKz via @financialtimes

— alan patricof (@alanjpatricof) April 11, 2019

Like it or not our congress has got to reconsider our monopilies and anti trust laws to deal with the issues arising from the internet. Open and fair competition is critical to building our 21st century economy.

— alan patricof (@alanjpatricof) March 21, 2019

The "true" founder of the internet,Larry Roberts who originated his work at ARPAin the 1960's , died over xmas at age 81.His seminal work in packet switching and his decision to build a network across multiple computers is responsible for the myriad of applications we use today

— alan patricof (@alanjpatricof) January 1, 2019

Here's my piece in today's @USATODAY opinion section on why Amazon may be getting way too huge: https://t.co/c5ea4Pj3kk

— alan patricof (@alanjpatricof) April 4, 2018

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Discord Gaming Chat Platform Is Bigger Than Slack (video)

Discord - The Gaming Chat Platform That's Bigger Than Slack

Discord, a free chat app designed for gamers, has been rapidly growing since it launched in 2015,  with upwards of 250 million user accounts today, about the same as Fortnite, plus 14 million daily active users, which is more than business chat-app Slack. It allows users to chat privately in groups that cannot be discovered through searches. The company markets itself explicitly to gamers, but it has servers devoted to everything from stock trading to meme sharing and fantasy football. CNBC.com video above published Apr 11, 2019.

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Pinterest IPO: Pinterest Going Public as $PINS (video)

IPO: Pinterest Going Public

Fortune Magazine video above published Mar 22, 2019.

NYSE: PINS

Pinterest, Inc. SEC Form S-1

Pinterest, Inc., a social media web and mobile application company, operates a software system designed to discover information online using mainly images, including GIFs and videos. The website was founded by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp.

• Domain: pinterest.com
• Date launched: January 2010
• Employees: 800+ employees
• Key people: Evan Sharp (chief product officer); Ben Silbermann (CEO)
• Owner: Cold Brew Labs, Inc.

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The Future of Payments - Using Google Pay (video)

How to pay in stores with Google Pay

How to use Google Pay to pay with your phone in stores. You can use it anywhere contactless payments are accepted. If you run into any issues, check out the help section in the app or visit the Google Pay Help Center. Google Pay merged two formerly separate apps, Android Pay and Google Wallet.

Google Pay (also stylized G Pay) is a digital wallet platform and online payment system developed by Google to power in-app, tap-to-pay purchases on mobile devices, and more. See What is Google Pay? excerpt:

• Make purchases in stores using your phone (See country and device availability).
• Buy items in apps and on websites (See country availability).
• Fill in forms automatically on Chrome (Learn more).
• Buy Google products.
• Send money to friends and family (US/UK only).
• You can also use your gift cards, loyalty cards, tickets, and coupons with Google Pay when you shop at your favorite stores

Domain: pay.google.com

How to use Google Pay | Pixel

Google Help video above published Oct 18, 2018: This video shown how to set up Google Pay on a Pixel smartphone. For more info go to the Pixel Help Center.

See also: Barclays to merge BPay, Pingit Products as banks fend off Apple Pay and Amazon Pay--bloomberg.com, and An inside look at the future of payments | CNBC Reports.

source: Statista.com

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Salesforce $CRM Co-CEO Marc Benioff on AI, Change & Leading with Trust

Marc Benioff: Business is the Greatest Platform for Change

Salesforce.com, Inc. $CRM Chairman and Co-CEO Marc Benioff discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the tech industry and beyond, the importance of leading with trust, and why business is the greatest platform for change. Goldman Sachs video above published Feb 22, 2019.

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ICANN, New gTLDs, Trademarks, RPMs, & Website Content (video)

ICANN and the New Top-Level Domains

ICANN and the new generic Top-Level Domains (new gTLDs)
Washington College of Law, Feb 25, 2019, 1:30 - 5:30 pm EST.

Editor's note: Accompanying ICANN's expansion of the internet's top-level domains (TLDs)--adding more than 1200 new generic top-level domains (“gTLDs”) to the internet's DNS (domain name system)--are new intellectual property (IP) rights protection mechanisms (RPMs), which may have a profound impact on the rights of IP owners, domain name registrants, and the public, and change the internet itself, see e.g., Copyright Law Versus Internet Culture | eff.org.

AGENDA:
1:30: Welcome: Christine Haight Farley, American University Washington College of Law

1:40: Trademark Protections in the New gTLDs

• Michael Karanicolas, University of Toronto 
• Brian King, MarkMonitor
• Rebecca Tushnet, Harvard Law School
• Brian Winterfeldt, Winterfeldt IP Group 
• Mary Wong, ICANN

3:00:  Break

3:15:  “Walled Gardens:” Should gTLDs Become Private Platforms?

• Becky Burr, ICANN Board & Neustar
• Sarah Deutsch, ICANN Board
• Kathy Kleiman, Center for Information Technology, Princeton University
• Jeff Neuman, Com Laude/Valideus
• Mitch Stoltz, EFF 

4:30: Closing: Patricia Aufderheide, American University, School of Communication

On my way to DC now, and looking forward to tomorrow's panel at American University on ICANN and the New Top Level Domains with @rtushnet, @mitchstoltz, @KleimK, @paufder, @marymagistra, @jintlaw & @Prof_Farley. Check out the details at: https://t.co/b83vlJxzJH

— Michael Karanicolas (@M_Karanicolas) February 24, 2019

Sponsors: American University Washington College of Law; American University School of Communications; Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property; Internet Governance Lab.

At this conference, EFF Senior Staff Attorney Mitch Stoltz will join policy experts and domain name industry leaders to discuss domain name companies' role in regulating website content.--eff.org

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Starbucks $SBUX Teams Up With Uber Eats to Deliver Orders to Your Door

Starbucks Teams Up With Uber Eats to Bring Orders to Your Door

Fortune Magazine video above published Jan 22, 2019.

Uber Eats is an online food ordering and delivery platform launched by Uber (uber.com) in 2014, based in San Francisco, California. Users can order food from participating restaurants via the Uber Eats website ubereats.com or app.
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Amazon $AMZN Playbook's Strategy for Alexa & Alexa Skills (video)

Amazon Playbook: Strategy for Alexa

L2inc.com video above published Jan 10, 2019: There are almost 25 million US households with an Amazon Alexa device. Here's how your brand can take advantage of Amazon's voice platform.

Amazon's Alexa is the voice-activated, interactive AI bot, or personal assistant, that lets people speak with their Amazon Echo, Echo Dot and other Amazon smart home devices. ... But Alexa Skills are apps that give Alexa even more abilities, letting her speak to more devices even websites--gearbrain.com.

Alexa Skills (Google SERP)

Amazon.com search:

Domain: developer.amazon.com/alexa
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Technology in the World: End of the Beginning, What's Next? (video)

The End of the Beginning

a16z.com video above published Nov 16, 2018: In his now annual state-of-innovation talk at the a16z Summit in November 2018, Andreessen Horowitz’ Benedict Evans walks through where we are now in software eating the world... and how things may continue to change over the next 10 years.

What's the state of not just "the world of tech", but tech in the world? The access story is now coming to an end, observes Evans, but the use story is just beginning: Most of the people are now online, but most of the money is still not. If we think we're in a period of disruption right now, how will the next big platform shifts -- like machine learning -- impact huge swathes of retail, manufacturing, marketing, fintech, healthcare, entertainment, and more? Especially as technology begins to tackle bigger problems, in harder markets, at deeper (and more structural) levels?

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Tech Talk Interview with Rameez Zafar, Eligible.ai (video)

Tech Talk Interview with Rameez Zafar, Eligible.ai

Rameez Zafar, co-founder, Eligible.ai, a white-label digital mortgage platform, talks about the challenges in digitizing mortgages and how artificial intelligence improves the customer experience. TheBanker.com video above published Oct 1, 2018.

• Domain: eligible.ai
• Founded 2016
• Digital Mortgage Technology Platform For Brokers & Lenders
• Headquarters: London, England, UK

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Internet Governance Forum 2018, Paris, France, Nov 12-14

Internet forum aims to build trust, while leaving no one offline

The Internet has become an integrated part of our lives, from accessing an education, to receiving healthcare services and to conducting business. As we move forward, our dependence on the Internet and technologies will grow even further. To address this concern, more than 3,000 representatives from governments, the private sector, technical community and the civil society will gather in Paris on 12-14 November 2018 at the annual global Internet Governance Forum (IGF) to look at a range of issues and actions that can be taken to ensure an “Internet of Trust.” UN DESA video above published Oct 31, 2018.

UPDATE: IGF 2018 Chair’s Summary (pdf) and dig.watch final report (pdf).

IGF 2018 - Day 1 - Salle VI

Internet Governance Forum (IGF) "Salle VI" video (via YouTube.com channel), Nov 12, 2018--the ICANN Open Forum begins at 1:57:38.

The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a global multistakeholder platform that facilitates the discussion of public policy issues pertaining to the internet.

IGF 2018 | Internet Governance Forum 2018, Paris, France, 12-14 Nov 2018

Official website - schedule: https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/igf-2018-schedule/
Highlighted sessions below - all times local Paris time:

• OF #24 ICANN Open Forum Monday Nov12  10:40 to 11:40 (streaming LIVE on YouTube embed above: 4:40am-5:40am EST in the U.S.) 

• WS #40 Internet Mega-Trends' Impact on the Internet’s Architecture Monday Nov12 11:50 to 13:20 (YouTube streaming same as above).

• Cybersecurity, Trust, & Privacy Tuesday Nov13 10:00 to 11:20

• OF #32 The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age Wednesday Nov14 09:00 to 10:00

• Open Mic/Taking Stock Wednesday Nov14 15:00 to 17:00

Other links:
IGF 2018 Speech by French President Emmanuel Macron

IGF 2018 Address to the Internet Governance Forum by UN SG António Guterres

dig.watch/events/13th-internet-governance-forum

Geneva Internet Platform - Digital Watch Updates from IGF2018

IGF2018 | InternetSociety.org

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Amazon $AMZN Q3 2018 Earnings LIVE Webcast Oct 25, 5:30pm EDT

source: statista.com

Amazon.com, Inc.

$AMZN

• NASDAQ: AMZN
• Principal domain: amazon.com
• Amazon Investor Relations: https://ir.aboutamazon.com/investor-relations

UPDATE: 

• CLICK HERE FOR WEBCAST

• Q3 2018 AMAZON.COM, INC. EARNINGS RELEASE (pdf)

• Q3 2018 AMAZON.COM INC EARNINGS CONFERENCE CALL SLIDES (pdf)

Amazon.com, Inc. Q3 2018 Earnings LIVE Webcast October 25, 2018, 5:30 p.m. EDT. The audio and associated slides will be available for at least three months thereafter at ir.aboutamazon.com.

Amazon -5% on Q3 revenue miss; AWS +46% Y/Y--SeekingAlpha.com.

See  also "Amazon's Focus On High Standards - Does It Matter For Investors?"--seekingalpha.com:

It's easy to take for granted how unconventional Jeff Bezos is, but his approach to Amazon's business is worth a closer look. We do a close read of the 2017 shareholder letter he published this April to see if we can better understand the company as a business and as an investment. This also is a prequel for our miniseries on Amazon to come this November. As might be expected, there's a lot to discuss.
Topics covered:
3:00 – Setting the scene – Amazon’s 4-part shareholder letter
5:00 – The intro and the key performance indicators – the unique focus of Amazon’s letter
10:00 – The letter as sign of Bezos’s triumph, and as the changing context of the Amazon story
14:00 – Customer divinity and Amazon’s high standards – investment edge?
20:30 – The meta narrative and the six steps ahead thesis
24:00 – Tackling the quality vs. value narrative again and trying to translate this into the investment case
32:15 – The perfect handstand bit and the value of handstand philosophy
40:30 – Picking apart the 6-page memo process
47:30 - Amazon’s recent milestones, and there are many of ‘em – the all-binding importance of revenue
57:45 – Riding the Treasure Truck
1:01:45 – Singing Internationale about Amazon’s human resources policies, and the Bezosian meta-narrative
1:07:45 – What does all this tell us about Amazon as an investment?
1:11:30 – 2017 vs. 1997 letter
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Digital Winners & Losers: Instagram, Amazon, Nike, Sears (video)

The Amazon of 1886

L2inc.com video above published Oct 18, 2018: Professor Galloway's on his week's Digital Winners & Losers: Facebook's Instagram, and the company that taught us how to shop just got killed by the company that taught us how to shop online, and more. 

Some say Instagram shamelessly copied Snapchat’s popular Stories feature, nevertheless, Instagram’s simple design appears to be more appealing to users than Snapchat’s sometimes confusing user interface. Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 billion in 2012, and Instagram recently passed the 1 billion monthly active users mark:

source: statista.com

Sources:

(00:12) Source: Gartner L2 Analysis of CNN, TechCrunch, and Snap Data. 

(00:21) Source: “Facebook Will Soon Rely On Instagram For The Majority Of Its Ad Revenue Growth,” Recode, October 2018. 

(00:48) Source: “Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 For All US Employees,” CNBC, October 2018. 

(01:24) Source: World Inequality Database. 

(01:24) Source: Mother Jones, 2016. 

(02:00) Source: “Sears Reshaped America, From Kenmore to Allstate,” Wall Street Journal, October 2018.

(02:05) Source: “The Rise and Fall of Sears,” Smithsonian Magazine, July 2017. https://bit.ly/2q0NOCo 

(02:34) Source: Macrotrends. 

(02:42) Source: “Amazon Takes a Page From Toys ‘R’ Us With a Holiday Catalog,” Bloomberg, July 2018.

(03:14) Source: “With Justin Gallegos Nike Brings Inspiring Dimension To ‘Just Do It’,” Forbes, October 2018.

(03:29) Source: “Justin Gallegos” video.r 2018.

Song: Everybody Wants To Rule The World by Tears For Fears

Transcript (unedited auto-generated):
00:00  a win our Instagram as Facebook
00:04  continues to take gut punches over
00:06  privacy breaches and its aging audience
00:08  the visual platform Instagram remains
00:10  unscathed
00:12  after neutering snapchat and making off
00:14  with its young Instagram is becoming
00:15  Facebook's rising star actually it's
00:18  pretty much already risen and projects
00:20  nine billion dollars in revenue for
00:22  Facebook this year
00:23  flashback Facebook bought in stuff for
00:25  just 1 billion dollars in 2012 and still
00:28  remains probably the best acquisition in
00:30  the history of tech Instagram is now
00:32  responsible for 1/5 of Facebook's
00:35  overall ad revenue and 38% of new ad
00:39  revenue by the end of 2020 Instagram is
00:42  expected to bring home 2/3 of Facebook's
00:45  new ad revenue a winner Amazon and let's
00:49  hope the middle class Amazon has raised
00:51  minimum wage to $15 for all US employees
00:54  and while some employees are complaining
00:57  that without stock awards and certain
00:59  bonuses they're actually making less
01:01  give credit where it's due
01:03  on the whole this is an impressive and a
01:06  smart move as everyone rushes to invest
01:08  in artificial intelligence the real
01:10  gangster move in retail is to invest in
01:13  organic intelligence a hopeful moment
01:16  for the economy and the middle class
01:17  that is largely missed out on the
01:19  incredible productivity gains over the
01:22  last 30 years middle class wages flat
01:24  despite trillions of dollars an
01:26  additional value created almost all of
01:28  it going to the top one or maybe top 10%
01:31  this is not only the right thing to do
01:33  but the smart thing to do is Amazon's
01:34  core asset is access to infinitely cheap
01:37  capital and this forces every other
01:39  competitor to go underwater with a
01:42  smaller tank of oxygen that is access to
01:44  capital and pay their employees the same
01:47  amount but as the labor markets tighten
01:49  this wraps up a key asset their labor
01:52  force and forces everyone else to follow
01:54  rest in peace sears tears for sears our
01:58  worst sears realize anyways iconic
02:00  former largest retailer in america has
02:03  filed for bankruptcy this week Sears
02:05  began as a mail order watch catalog in
02:08  1886 and GU to sell everything from
02:10  bicycles to sewing machine shipping
02:13  catalogs
02:14  nearly every home in the United States
02:16  at the turn of the century Sears taught
02:18  Americans how to shop similar to the way
02:20  Amazon has taught people how to shop
02:21  online millions learned about mail-order
02:23  shipping and return policies through
02:25  their Sears experience the company
02:27  emphasized customer satisfaction above
02:30  all else sound familiar
02:31  since its peak in 2007 Sears has shed 30
02:34  billion dollars in shareholder value and
02:37  200,000 jobs just as Amazon killed
02:39  Borders then opened its own bookstores
02:42  Amazon killed Toys R Us and Sears and is
02:45  mailing out a holiday catalog this
02:47  Christmas I will miss yours as a young
02:49  adult I used to go into the retailer
02:51  find a sales associate and in an
02:53  official sounding voice mutter code for
02:57  and housewares and just see what
02:59  happened and we leave you with a video
03:03  from the brand that probably has the
03:04  most wind at its back right now Nike
03:07  after their genius move endorsing Colin
03:08  Kaepernick helping drive sales and
03:10  increase their stock price Nike is back
03:13  at it they've endorsed 20 year old
03:15  runner Justin Gallegos their first
03:17  professional athlete with cerebral palsy
03:19  so let me preamp some of the comments
03:22  that will claim that this isn't an
03:23  authentic move because it's about
03:24  commercialism and making money the basis
03:27  of capitalism is the notion that as we
03:29  are pursuing economic security for us
03:31  and our families the good things happen
03:34  and this is a very good thing ....

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Interview with Fintech Startup WiseAlpha CEO Rezaah Ahmad (video)

Tech Talk: interview with Rezaah Ahmad, WiseAlpha

Rezaah Ahmad, CEO, WiseAlpha, a fixed income platform giving everyday investors and savers access to corporate bonds, talks about disrupting the lending market and why the corporate debt market is ripe for digital innovation. TheBanker.com video above published Oct 8, 2018.

Domain: WiseAlpha.com

Categories: Credit, Financial Services, FinTech
Headquarters: London, England, UK
Founded: Mar 1, 2014
Founder: Rezaah Ahmad
Last Funding Type: Equity Crowdfunding

WiseAlpha is an online investment platform offering its members access via Notes to senior secured loan investments. replacing the substantial costs and complexity of investing in specialist credit funds with a simpler and more cost effective way to invest. Until now, the corporate loan market has remained largely untransformed by technological innovation but WiseAlpha is now making this asset class accessible to a wider investment audience. In order to gain access to this asset class, individual investors usually had to use brokers and/or invest in specialist debt funds which often charged substantial upfront fees and ongoing management and performance fees.

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YouTube & The Battle For Free Speech (video)

YouTube & The Battle For Free Speech (video)

Economist.com video above published Aug 28, 2018: Over one billion hours of YouTube videos are viewed every day and a new generation of content creators are harnessing the power of the social-media platform, but they're also grappling with issues surrounding censorship and free speech. A new breed of creatives, known as influencers, are the modern broadcasters of the internet age, some as young as four years old, who are streaming their content to millions of viewers.

YouTubers are also increasingly using the platform and global audience to push the boundaries of free speech and promote their own brand of positive values, but not just a western, influencers around the world freely express their opinions.

In places where free speech has been suppressed in the past, freedom of speech comes with its difficulties. Like Facebook, Twitter and other digital platforms, YouTube is forced to grapple with complex decisions about censorship. It aspires to be politically neutral, but doesn't allow hate speech.

The line between free speech and hate speech is a fine one. Without the contest of ideas, the world cannot progress. Influencers like these may be at the heart of our democratic future.

Principal domain: youtube.com

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The College and NFL Football Seasons & Sports Betting

This Is Only The Beginning-- Philadelphia Eagles 2018 Season Kickoff video--"This is only the beginning"--#FlyEaglesFly #NFL #Eagles--source: PhiladelphiaEagles.com.

#FlyEaglesFly pic.twitter.com/N3TUPUQryF

— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) September 6, 2018

The NFL season opens on the evening of September 6, 2018, with the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles hosting the Atlanta Falcons.

Analysts have pointed to the start of the college and pro football seasons as the first real indication of the upside potential for casino operators, bookmaking companies and gaming platform developers in the wake of recent legalization of sports betting in several U.S. states. Reports on casino traffic and the popularity of in-game betting as football season starts may be indicative of the future market potential.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and retiring Senator Orrin Hatch have said they will push for federal sports betting legislation, although full approval may take some time.

Companies looking to profit from sports betting include GVC Holdings (OTCPK:GMVHF), Boyd Gaming (NYSE:BYD), Caesars Entertainment (NASDAQ:CZR), Betfair (OTC:PDYPF), DraftKings (DRAFT), Churchill Downs (NASDAQ:CHDN), Fanduel (DUEL), International Game Technology (NYSE:IGT), Stars Group (NASDAQ:TSG), William Hill (OTCPK:WIMHY) and MGM Resorts (NYSE:MGM).
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey LIVE @HouseCommerce Sep 5 1:30pm EDT

U.S.House Energy and Commerce Committee Hearing:

Above video LIVE & replay: Congressional Hearing 5 Sep 2018 at 1:30pm EDT, Twitter: Transparency and Accountability.

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) announced on Aug 24, 2018, that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey would testify before the full committee at 1:30pm EDT,  Wednesday, September 5, 2018, regarding Twitter’s algorithms and content monitoring.

“Twitter is an incredibly powerful platform that can change the national conversation in the time it takes a tweet to go viral. When decisions about data and content are made using opaque processes, the American people are right to raise concerns. This committee intends to ask tough questions about how Twitter monitors and polices content, and we look forward to Mr. Dorsey being forthright and transparent regarding the complex processes behind the company’s algorithms and content judgement calls”--Chairman Walden. 

Witness: Mr. Jack Dorsey, CEO, Twitter, Inc.
Witness Invitation (pdf) and Prepared Testimony (pdf)

See also U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing Sep 5, 2018, 9:30am EDT, witnesses Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook) and Jack Dorsey (Twitter).

Documents: Hearing Notice (pdf) below, and Background Memo (pdf) embed further below.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Details on hearing with Twitter CEO @Jack >> https://t.co/r0Lkf9KCrA pic.twitter.com/EEDo6CfPya

— Energy and Commerce (@HouseCommerce) August 29, 2018

http://twitter.com/HouseCommerce

It’s an honor to be able to speak to the American people on behalf of our service. We realize Twitter is used by many as a public square, and our singular objective as a company is to help increase the health and integrity of conversations found within.

— jack (@jack) August 31, 2018

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Nvidia $NVDA Q2 FY19 Earnings, LIVE Webcast August 16, 5:30pm EDT

A Tour of NVIDIA Holodeck

Collaborate and create in VR:  NVIDIA Holodeck™ is a virtual reality (VR) innovation platform that brings designers, peers, and stakeholders together from anywhere in the world to build and explore creations in a highly realistic, collaborative, and physically simulated VR environment. See how NVIDIA Holodeck can bring teams together, speed up productivity, and improve an entire creative process at nvidia.com/holodeck.

Since 2014, Nvidia has shifted to become a platform company focused on four markets – gaming, professional visualization, data centers and auto, but is now also focused on artificial intelligence (AI). In addition to GPU manufacturing, Nvidia provides parallel processing capabilities for researchers and scientists to efficiently run high-performance applications deployed in supercomputers around the world. In the mobile computing market, it produces Tegra mobile processors for smartphones and tablets as well as vehicle navigation and entertainment systems.Competitors include AMD, Intel, Qualcomm and Arm (Nvidia also licenses Arm's designs).

Nvidia Corporation is a U.S.-based technology company incorporated in Delaware with headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
Stock exchange: symbol - NASDAQ: NVDA

$NVDA

Principal domain: nvidia.com
Investor Relations: investor.nvidia.com

After hours trading August 16, 2018: Nvidia Shares Slump on Weak Q3 Guidance--TheStreet.com
UPDATE: Earnings Call Transcript | SeekingAlpha.com

NVIDIA 2nd Quarter FY19 Financial Results 16 Aug 2018, 5:30pm EDT Listen to Webcast

UPDATE Q2 FY19 results: CFO Commentary (pdf) and NVIDIA Quarterly Revenue Trend (pdf) excerpt (emphasis added):

Third Quarter of Fiscal 2019 Outlook Our outlook for the third quarter of fiscal 2019 is as follows: • Revenue is expected to be $3.25 billion, plus or minus two percent. We are including no contribution from crypto in our revenue outlook. • GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins are expected to be 62.6 percent and 62.8 percent, respectively, plus or minus 50 basis points. • GAAP and non-GAAP operating expenses are expected to be approximately $870 million and $730 million, respectively. • GAAP and non-GAAP other income and expense are both expected to be income of approximately $20 million. • GAAP and non-GAAP tax rates are both expected to be 9 percent, plus or minus one percent, excluding any discrete items. GAAP discrete items include excess tax benefits or deficiencies related to stockbased compensation, which are expected to generate variability on a quarter by quarter basis. • Capital expenditures are expected to be approximately $125 million to $150 million.

NVIDIA news release:

NVIDIA will host a conference call on Thursday, August 16, at 2:30 p.m. PT (5:30 p.m. ET) to discuss its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2019, ending July 29, 2018.The call will be webcast live (in listen-only mode) at the following websites: www.nvidia.com and www.streetevents.com. The company’s prepared remarks will be followed by a question and answer session, which will be limited to questions from financial analysts and institutional investors.

Ahead of the call, NVIDIA will provide written commentary on its second-quarter results from its CFO. This material will be posted to investor.nvidia.com immediately after the company’s results are publicly announced at approximately 1:20 p.m. PT.
To listen to the conference call, dial (877) 223-3864 or, for those outside the United States, (574) 990-1377, conference ID 3298827.

A replay of the conference call will be available until August 23, 2018, at (855) 859-2056, conference ID 3298827. The webcast will be recorded and available for replay until the company’s conference call to discuss financial results for its third quarter of fiscal year 2019.

See also:

• Why tech companies are racing each other to make their own custom A.I. chips | cnbc.com

• Nvidia's Stock May Fall Sharply On Less Than Stellar Results | SeekingAlpha.com

• NVIDIA Reveals Next-Gen Turing GPU Architecture: NVIDIA Doubles-Down on Ray Tracing, GDDR6, & More | anandtech.com

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CNBC.com video above published Jun 18, 2018: Fortnite is one of the biggest video games on the market. The live streams are pulling in numbers that are more than some cable television shows. Since it launched the Battle Royale game mode, Fortnite has come to dominate Twitch.

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Financial Times (ft.com) video above published Jun 5, 2018: In China cash is no longer king. Why? Because of the Alipay (domain: alipay.com) phenomenon. It's China's biggest mobile payment platform with 622 million users, handling more than half of the country's $15.5 trillion payments market.
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