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2019-05-29

How Corning $GLW Created Gorilla Glass And Reinvented Itself (video)

How Corning Created Gorilla Glass And Reinvented Itself

Since 1851, Corning has evolved from a light bulb manufacturer to Pyrex creator to making high-tech glass products for companies like Apple, Google, Verizon and Samsung. Here is a look at how Corning has continuously reinvented itself to keep up with the changing times. CNBC.com video above published April 25, 2019.

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2019-05-15

Streetwear Brand Supreme And Its War Against 'Legal Fakes' (video)

Supreme is under siege by imitators. Here's why it's legal

This CNN business video has been updated to clarify the language describing IBF's trademark status in China and the date of a quote. Streetwear brand Supreme is loved by celebrities and valued at $1 billion. But overseas it's waging war against "legal fakes" companies that are legally imitating the brand in countries from Spain to China.

@supremenewyork The official Twitter account of Supreme® EST 1994, NYC. All other accounts are fake.
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2019-02-23

Tech Review 1) Big Tech's Privacy Problem, 2) Amazon Air Expands (video)

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Tech Review (TR 2019-02-23)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech investing news: Features • 1) Big Tech's Data Privacy Problem, 2) Amazon Air Expands, Look Out FedEx and UPS!, 3) Investing: The Week & Investor Notes: a. Amazon.com, Inc. $AMZN, b. EU, ECB & Italy,  4) ICYMI Tech News: Google's Waymo, Amazon, Samsung, IBM, eBay, Uber, Walmart, HFT Speed Bump, Zillow, Brick-and-Mortar Meltdown, Password Managers Vulnerabilities. 

1) Big Tech's Data Privacy Problem

Sean Parker, former President of Facebook and current Chairman of The Parker Foundation (parker.org), discusses big tech's data privacy problem--"Amazon not guaranteeing you any privacy"--CNBC International TV video published Feb 13, 2019.

See also: The U.S. government's Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Facebook are negotiating a record, multibillion-dollar fine for the company’s privacy lapses--WashingtonPost.com.

2) Amazon Air Expands, Look Out FedEx and UPS!

Amazon $AMZN aims to compete with FedEx $FDX and UPS $UPS in the logistics and shipping industry. That's what analysts told CNBC.com after Amazon Air recently expanded to 50 planes and announced it will open a $1.5 billion air hub in Northern Kentucky in 2021. Amazon is handling up to 26% of its own shipping, meaning FedEx, UPS and the U.S. Postal Service are losing a portion of Amazon's business. FedEx says it's not worried, but Morgan Stanley reports the major shippers have already lost 2% revenue to Amazon Air. CNBC.com video above published Feb 16, 2019.

3) Investing
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The Week: NASDAQ Composite +0.7% | S&P 500 Index +0.6% | DJIA +0.6%
 "a dramatic turnaround that has given investors renewed faith in the nearly 10-year bull market"--WSJ.com February 22, 2019.
Wall Street's Charging Bull
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Investor Notes: 
a. Amazon.com, Inc. $AMZN
On Amazon's Nixing New York for HQ2: "I’m confused. I really can’t understand why anyone would want to build a corporate HQ in Queens? Have you been there?"--Bill Blain

b. EU, ECB, & Italy:
Italy headed for 'vicious' debt crisis--government actions eroding investor trust--omfif.org.
"... the news changes our perceptions. The trick is to separate the chaos of new flow from the tau of markets. Markets are linear functions of buy/sell – they are not necessarily about common sense. To illustrate: last week I wrote about Italy, pointing out just how hopelessly its ensnared and entrapped within the strait-jacket of the Euro, with little prospect of growth, employment or upside. Yet Italian bonds are one of the top performing assets – AND WILL REMAIN SO – because the ECB can’t afford to let Italy go, and Europe sliding back into downturn pretty much ensures they’ll continue to bailout Italy and likely resurrect QE in some form ..."--MorningPorridge.com
ECB considers restarting stimulus mechanism--marketwatch.com.

4) ICYMI Tech News:
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Google’s Waymo risks repeating Silicon Valley’s most famous blunder--how to build a minimum viable product for driverless cars--arstechnica.com; and Google to unveil Project Stream, its "Netflix-Like Game Streaming Service" at a Game Developers Conference keynote on March 19--fortune.com.

Amazon has secured central London retail space for its checkout-free Amazon Go food stores, in what would be the first expansion of Amazon's automated convenience shops outside the United States--thegrocer.co.uk.

 Smartphones Are Boring
Samsung trying to reinvent itself as a top-tier supplier for 5G wireless networks and bridge a big gap with market leader Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia.

Cisco $CSCO--'Nothing But Network' Is Taking Cisco To A Very Good Place--seekingalpha.com.

IBM Watson Anywhere initiative makes Watson AI services available across AWS, Azure and GCP, in addition to their own IBM Cloud offerings.

eBay $EBAY: hedge funds and institutional investors place bets on the e-commerce platform.

Uber (uber.com) sues New York City over the law that caps the number of ride-hail cars and pausing the issuance of licenses to drivers for 12 months--theverge.com.

Why Walmart farms out same-day grocery deliveries to low-cost freelance drivers--reuters.com.

"Flash Boys" HFT Speed Bump (a 3-millisecond trading delay), to be implemented in the ICE Futures U.S., Inc. (IFUS) (pdf), gold daily and silver daily futures markets. Comments must be submitted on or before March 15, 2019.--CFTC.gov.

Zillow (zillow.com), a new breed of high-tech real estate flippers “iBuyers” using algorithms (and a healthy dose of Silicon Valley venture capital) to buy at massive scale--bloomberg.com.

Brick-and-Mortar Meltdown--“I prefer not to scare you at this point, okay. But it’s something that we’ve been able to withstand”--Simon Property Group CEO David Simon. See also "No Light At The End Of The Tunnel."

Personal Tech: Severe vulnerabilities uncovered in popular password managers--zdnet.com.

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2019-02-19

Inside the Gorilla Glass Factory of Corning $GLW (video)

Inside Corning's Gorilla Glass Factory

A rare look inside Corning’s oldest glass factory where it makes Gorilla Glass for iPhones and a variety of other devices. The factory, in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, runs 24/7 and human hands never touch the glass — only air and robots.

In the middle of bluegrass and bourbon country in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, is Corning's oldest glass factory. It was built in the 1950s to create lenses for glasses and then in the 1980s it transitioned into making LCD glass panels. But about six months before the first iPhone was released in 2007, Steve Jobs made a call to the CEO of Corning and asked the company to create glass that could withstand scratches and breakage for a new Apple product. Before that, phones were typically covered in plastic. Corning quickly developed Gorilla Glass, and this factory went through a complete transformation. The same company that developed the glass for the Edison bulb in 1879, is now making the glass that covers 6 billion smartphones, tablets, screens and wearables worldwide for Apple, Samsung, LG, Sony and Huawei and a variety of other manufacturers. Watch the video to get a rare look inside the factory to see how Gorilla Glass is made. CNBC.com video above published Feb 9, 2019.

Corning Incorporated
NYSE: GLW
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Investor Relations: investor.corning.com
Industry: Glass & Ceramic Materials
Founded: 1851
Headquarters: Corning, New York, U.S.
Employees: 46,200
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2018-04-07

Tech Review | YouTube Targets Apple $AAPL Music and Spotify $SPOT

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Tech Review (TR 2018-04-07)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech news with commentary, analysis and opinion: Features • 1) YouTube Targets Apple $AAPL Music and Spotify $SPOT, 2) But Will Music Streaming Ever Be Profitable?, 3) Investing: The Week, Investing Notes, 4) ICYMI Tech News.

1) YouTube Targets Apple $AAPL Music and Spotify $SPOT 

Bloomberg.com video published Mar 23, 2018: YouTube is about to launch a paid music subscription service. It's trying to steal listeners from Apple Music $AAPL and Spotify $SPOT, which went public this week: Spotify’s direct listing allowed investors and employees sell up to 55.7 million ordinary shares without the company raising new capital or hiring a Wall Street bank or broker to underwrite the offering--Digging Into The Spotify IPO - Spotify (Pending:SPOT) | SeekingAlpha.com:  "founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon own 37.3% and 43.1% of the combined voting power, respectively, meaning shareholders will not have influence on the major decisions of the company."  See https://www.nyse.com/quote/XNYS:SPOT (Spotify share price).

2) But Will Music Streaming Ever Be Profitable? Google $GOOG $GOOGL and Apple $AAPL may not care since the former is mainly trying to sell advertising while the latter is capturing market share for its devices and content channels. Amazon $AMZN likewise may be willing to break even. That may leave other streaming service providers like Spotify and Pandora in a tough competitive position:

 source: Statista.com

3) Investing
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The Week: Markets ended the week DOWN on Friday--Wall Street drops over 2 pct on trade worries | Nasdaq.com--Worry, Fear? Let them wet their pants on Wall Street, ignore the noise--I'm still looking for the NASDAQ Composite to break to the upside this year, 3rd time the charm?--
 NASDAQ Composite
Wall Street's Charging Bull--he's laughing at us right now:
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Investing Notes:
  • Still Underwater: My 10-Year Odyssey Through America’s Housing Crisis | WSJ.com: "Misery over real estate hasn’t ended—2.5 million homes are still worth less than their mortgages ... the story of one Wall Street Journal reporter’s upside-down American dream."
  • Trump Hits 50% Approval Rating, Surpasses Obama At This Time In His Presidency | ZeroHedge.com April 2, 2018. [Editor's note: the mainstream media narratives are getting jaded, which may be why Trump's poll numbers appear resilient and to the upside in the face of such unprecedented unfavorable media bias. My take: the American people do not like nor trust bicoastal "elitists"--in media or inside the Beltway. If I were a Dem politico, I wouldn't underestimate Trump, he just keeps tweeting, etc.  As far as markets are concerned, you have to accept and adapt to the environment as it is, Trump is Trump, a fixture in the financial 'landscape' for now. Filter out the noise which dominates most 'news' today, something Warren Buffett has been telling us to do for years.

4) ICYMI Tech News:
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2018-03-31

Tech Review | Why Alibaba and Tencent Dominate Mobile Payments

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Tech Review (TR 2018-03-31)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech news with commentary, analysis and opinion: Features • 1) Why Alibaba and Tencent Dominate Mobile Payments, 2) AI & Deep Learning Conference | GTC 2018 | NVIDIA, 3) Investing: The Week, Investing Notes, 4) ICYMI Tech News.

1) How Alibaba and Tencent Became Dominant in Mobile Payments

Chinese tech companies Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) and Tencent have emerged as global leaders in mobile-payment technology. This animated video charts the key steps along their rise to the top. Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) video above published Mar 23, 2018.

2) AI & Deep Learning Conference | GTC 2018 | NVIDIA.com March 26-29, 2018
Nvidia & AI: Parallel processing units will likely power advanced artificial intelligence which is key to self-driving cars and significant research products in healthcare, climate, and next-generation transportation. “We’ve been pioneering this computing approach called GPU computing for over the last decade,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said. “Over the last seven or eight years, it really went into turbo charge because the model is perfect for artificial intelligence.”

3) Investing
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The Week and end of Q1 2018--U.S. financial markets were closed March 30 for Good Friday--the Dow and S&P 500 ended the first quarter of 2018 DOWN 2.3% and 1.2% respectively, while the NASDAQ Composite ended Q1 2018 UP 2.3%:
 NASDAQ Composite
Wall Street's Charging Bull:
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Investing Notes:

4) ICYMI Tech News:
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  • FCC approves SpaceX plan for broadband satellite services:using a new generation of low-Earth orbit satellite technologies--Reuters.com.

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2018-02-06

Digital Winners & Losers: Samsung, Apple, Mark Zuckerberg & Facebook

The Most Powerful Person in the World

L2inc.com video above published Feb 1, 2018: Scott Galloway on Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook and Samsung / Apple and more--"who wields power over 2 billion people, can influence elections and public opinion, and traffics in one of the most addictive drugs known to mankind? Plus, an unlikely winner from Apple's iPhone success." 

Sources:
(0:21) F8 Facebook Developer Conference, April 2017.
(0:38) “The Top 20 Valuable Facebook Statistics – Updated January 2018,” Zephoria, January 2018.
(0:38) “Muslims And Islam: Key Findings In The U.S. And Around The World,” Pew Research Center, August 2017.
(0:38) “Global Catholic Population Tops 1.28 Billion; Half Are In 10 Countries,” National Catholic Reporter, April 2017.
(0:56) “The Decline in Adult Activities Among U.S. Adolescents, 1976–2016,” Jean M. Twenge and Heejung Park, 2017.
(1:00) “Why Teens Aren’t Partying Anymore,” Wired, December 2017.
(1:31) “Guess How Much Money Samsung Is Expected To Make Selling iPhone X Screens To Apple Next Year,” BGR, December 2017.
(1:40) “Samsung Display To Supply 180-200m OLED Panels For iPhone X Next Year,” The Investor, December 2017.
(1:46) “Samsung Electronics Announces Third Quarter 2017 Results,” Samsung, October 2017.
(1:50) “Guess How Much Money Samsung Is Expected To Make Selling iPhone X Screens To Apple Next Year,” BGR, December 2017.
(2:09) “Google’s Breakdown Of What Americans Don’t Know How To Spell, State By State,” The Washington Post, May 2017.
(2:09) “Walmart Reveals The Most Bizarre Top-Selling Items In Every State,” Business Insider, January 2018.

Transcript (auto-generated via YouTube.com):
00:00 [Music]
00:01 Who is the most powerful person in the
00:04 world who wields power over two billion
00:07 people and has proven influence over
00:09 elections and public opinion who also
00:12 manufactures and traffics in one of the
00:14 most addictive drugs known to mankind
00:16 increasing teen depression worldwide the
00:20 Zuck the most powerful man in the world
00:22 who doesn't have his finger on a button
00:24 all the hype around changing the
00:26 Facebook newsfeed to favorite content
00:28 from friends as a gesture towards
00:30 restoring democracy is just a big head
00:32 fake the Zuck would never do anything
00:34 that doesn't turn a profit Facebook has
00:37 assembled the largest community in the
00:39 history of mankind
00:40 and the individual overseeing this
00:42 community screwed over his friends in
00:44 college then over his best friend right
00:47 after college and spoiler alert isn't
00:49 concerned with the condition of our
00:51 souls or National Defense. A loser: teens
00:54 recent research reveals that teens
00:56 aren't hanging out in person or going to
00:59 parties in fact the number of teens who
01:01 get together every day has been cut in
01:03 half in the last 15 years the culprit
01:06 once again Facebook and other social
01:08 platforms you can't buy cigarettes or
01:11 vote until you're 18 or drink until
01:13 you're 21 why should we let our kids
01:15 have access to these platforms at age 13
01:18 please respond to me in the comments page
01:20 gating social media no Facebook or
01:23 Instagram accounts until you're 18 good
01:26 or bad idea an unlikely winner from
01:29 Apple's iPhone success Samsung the
01:32 Korean tech giant is the only supplier
01:34 for the iPhone 10 OLED screen samsung
01:37 expects to sell to Apple about 200
01:40 million iPhone screens and a teen
01:42 generating more than 20 billion in
01:44 revenue that's almost half Samsung's q3
01:47 revenue and the equivalent of selling 20
01:50 million of their Galaxy Note 8 phones. To
01:53 mark the National Spelling Bee Google
01:55 broke down America's most misspelled
01:57 words by state separately Walmart
02:00 released a list of its top-selling items
02:02 in every state which may or may not
02:04 explain some of the spelling challenges
02:06 sweeping across the country in
02:08 California where I'm from beautiful is
02:11 the most misspelled word
02:12 and protein powder is the best-selling
02:14 Walmart item people in Wisconsin
02:16 apparently can't spell Wisconsin but the
02:20 Green Bay Packers bathmat is the
02:22 best-selling item on the Bentonville
02:25 giant's site and in New Hampshire the
02:27 most misspelled word of 2016 was
02:29 diarrhea and the best-selling item at
02:32 Walmart is cinnamon flavored toothpaste.
02:35 Things were much easier when I was a kid
02:38 we only had 25 letters in the alphabet
02:40 nobody knew why we'll see you next week
02:53 [Music]

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2017-09-09

Tech Review | Amazon HQ2: Second Headquarters North America (video)

Tech Review (TR 2017-09-09)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech news:
Features • 1) Amazon HQ2: Second Headquarters North America (video), 2) Why Hurricane Harvey Won't Slow Down Houston, 3) Leading Cloud Providers Run Away with the Market: Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, 4) Investing: Roku IPO, Best IPO, Uber, AT&T $T, 5) ICYMI Tech News: Huawei, Apple, Samsung, Google, HTC, Xiaomi, Facebook, Angry Birds IPO, Equifax data breach.

1) Amazon HQ2: Second Headquarters North America

Amazon Announces Public Hunt for New Headquarters
Video above published Sep 7, 2017, by Bloomberg.com: Amazon.com Inc.,  (NASDAQ: AMZN), is breaking from its history of secret expansions with a public hunt for a second headquarters, spurring quick interest from cities eager to land a workforce of as many as 50,000 people. Bloomberg's Gerrit De Vynck and Shira Ovide, a Bloomberg Gadfly columnist, have more on "Bloomberg Technology." Ovide's opinions are her own (not Bloomberg's).

Amazon.com Inc. Press Release: "Sep. 7, 2017—Amazon today announced plans to open Amazon HQ2, a second company headquarters in North America. Amazon expects to invest over $5 billion in construction and grow this second headquarters to include as many as 50,000 high-paying jobs. In addition to Amazon’s direct hiring and investment, construction and ongoing operation of Amazon HQ2 is expected to create tens of thousands of additional jobs and tens of billions of dollars in additional investment in the surrounding community. Amazon is opening the Amazon HQ2 Request for Proposal (“RFP”) now, and local and state government leaders interested in learning more about how they can bring Amazon to their community can visit www.amazon.com/amazonHQ2. Amazon estimates its investments in Seattle from 2010 through 2016 resulted in an additional $38 billion to the city’s economy – every dollar invested by Amazon in Seattle generated an additional 1.4 dollars for the city’s economy overall. Details of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters ..." (go to link above for more info)(link and emphasis added).

See also: Two Very Different Stories About Amazon: "The best thing since credit cards or the next Sears?"--Bloomberg.com

2)  Why Hurricane Harvey Won't Slow Down Houston: "... The economic forces favoring a quick recovery are just too strong ... Houston is a tech cluster ... the center of the U.S. energy industry, which has gone increasingly high-tech in the past few decades. The city probably is home to more engineers than any other in the country. The same pool of skilled employees that sustains Houston’s energy industry makes it appealing to other knowledge-based sectors as well ..."--Bloomberg.com

See also: Hurricane Irma is not expected to disrupt banking in Florida, even if a lot of bank branches shut down during the storm. Leaders of institutions such as CenterState Bank Corp. and Seacoast Banking Corp. of Florida told American Banker that technology, including the ability to deposit and withdraw money electronically, will keep business on track.--South Florida Business Journal | bizjournals.com

3)  Leading Cloud Providers Run Away with the Market--Synergy Research Group | srgresearch.com: Amazon ended June with 34% of the cloud services market compared to 11% for Microsoft and 5% for Google, according to Synergy Research:
 Leading Cloud Providers
Synergy estimates that quarterly cloud infrastructure service revenues (including IaaS, PaaS and hosted private cloud services) have now reached almost $11 billion and continue to grow at over 40% per year. While AWS (Amazon Web Services), Microsoft and Google are the lead providers in IaaS/PaaS, IBM continues to lead in hosted private cloud. Alibaba has now become the fourth ranked provider in IaaS with very strong growth in China and aggressive expansion abroad.
“While Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform are doubling in size, IBM continues to dominate in hosted private cloud and AWS is still over three times the size of its nearest competitor. Some of the numbers are actually pretty spectacular. The year-on-year market growth rate is nudging down as we expected in such a large market, but it remains at comfortably over 40% and AWS alone generated revenue growth of $1.2 billion over the last four quarters.”--John Dinsdale, Synergy Research Group Chief Analyst and Research Director 
4) Investing

5) ICYMI Tech News:
  • Smartphones: MWC Americas, September 12-14, 2017, in San Francisco at the Moscone Center. China's Huawei (domain: huawei.com) passes Apple in global smartphone sales, now second behind Samsung--cnbc.com. Apple's Sept 12th Event: Apple’s New iPhones May Be Called iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone Edition--cnbc.com (video). Google buying HTC? | cnbc.com. See also Samsung Galaxy Note 8: great build, dual camera and display, but not huge upgrade from S8+ and too expensive at $929--engadget.com, and finally, Google and Xiaomi partner to launch the Android One Mi A1 smartphone for just $234 in more than 40 markets--a Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 processor, 3080mAh battery, a 5.5-inch curved glass display, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB internal storage--VentureBeat.com
  • America's Superstar Companies Are a Drag on Growth--Bloomberg.com--"Lack of competition lets them gouge consumers, underpay workers and invest too little ... Since the 1980s, antitrust enforcement has gotten weaker." TalkingPointsMemo.com: A Serf on Google’s Farm: How publishers' extreme reliance on various Google services gives Google effective monopoly power, stifles criticism, and sometimes results in unexpected losses.  See also Silicon Valley Ethics Issues: Companies court "brand-name teachers."--NYTimes.com, and U.S. tax reform needed to spur competition and growth says Jamie Dimon--usatoday.com.
  • HollywoodReporter.com: Amazon and Apple are competing with Warner Bros. and others for rights to the James Bond franchise.
  • Has disruption from e-commerce run its course? | 13D.com: Alibaba’s Jack Ma has put it bluntly: “We must embrace physical space.” See also Brick & Mortar Meltdown: Toys R Us Hires Bankruptcy Law Firm | Wolf Street and Mexico signs e-commerce deal with China's Alibaba Group--Reuters.com
  • Facebook: how its quest for growth and monetization shapes and distorts company's stated mission of connecting people--You Are The Product | London Review of Books | lrb.co.uk. See also Facebook's Watch goes up against YouTube for ad dollars--Reuters.com, and Facebook Tees Up WhatsApp to Make Money | WSJ.com. Meanwhile Facebook digital ads figures differ from census data: analyst--Reuters.com.
  • Angry Birds' Oy IPO in Finland: Rovio Entertainment Oy, Finnish mobile game and film company, plans IPO in Helsinki, with an issue of shares for €30 million and sale of existing shares by majority owner Kaj Hed, uncle of Rovio co-founder Niklas Hed, and others, with the goal of valuing the company at about US$2.38B--WSJ.com.
  • Chinese ICOs banned: China bans fundraising via initial coin offerings | cnbc.com and China's virtual coin fundraising ban just the start of tighter regulations on virtual currencies a/k/a cryptocurrencies--Reuters.com
  • EU plans rule change to increase taxes on "digital multinationals such as Google and Amazon ..."--Reuters.com; ECB working on licensing rules for fintechs--Reuters.com. See also Zelle, the payment network backed by major US banks, launching a standalone app--TheVerge.com
  • Hackers Coming for Your Cell-Phone Number--Hackers have been increasingly able to convince carriers to transfer customer phone numbers to devices in their control, allowing a reset of passwords for sites secured using two-factor authentication, a feature now used widely by sites like Twitter and Facebook.--NYTimes.com and MIT TechnologyReview.com. See also Instagram Hackers Claim To Have Data of Over 6 Million Users--wccftech.com, and Equifax website hack exposes data for ~143 million US consumers | ArsTechnica.com: "Breach affecting 44 percent of US population is one of the biggest yet."--personal data of millions of people is now in the hands of hostile governments, criminal gangs, or both, and will remain so indefinitely. 

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2017-07-29

Tech Review: 7 of the Top 10 Global Brands Are Tech Companies

Tech Review (TR 2017-07-29)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech news:
Features • 1) 7 of the Top 10 Global Brands Are Tech Companies, 2) Apple $AAPL, 3) Q2 2017 earnings, 4) Unicorn: Chinese bike-sharing startup Ofo, 5) SoundCloud #FAIL, 6) Post-Brexit: new UK-US bilateral trade agreement, 7) ICYMI Tech News.

1) 7 of the Top 10 Global Brands Are Tech Companies
Blue companies above are classified by the source as non-tech, Gold as tech (source: visualcapitalist.com)
Source: Chart: Ranking the World's Most Valuable Brands | visualcapitalist.com: in just 10 years tech brands have taken over the list. All ten use as their principal domain name brand.com.

Other Tech News:

2)  Apple $AAPL (principal domain: Apple.com) conference call to discuss third fiscal quarter results is scheduled for Tuesday, August 1, 2017, at 5:00 p.m. EDT (US). See also Trump & Apple Contract Manufacturer Foxconn Announce New Wisconsin Facility | TheHill.com--Foxconn investing $10 billion in Wisconsin and creating 3,000 jobs there--"The White House said the new project is expected to be the first of many new U.S. plants from Foxconn, one of the biggest manufacturers of Apple products such as iPhones." and Why You Should Sell Your Apple Shares Before The Next iPhone Release | SeekingAlpha.com.

3) Q2 2017 earnings webcasts this past week on DomainMondo.com: Alphabet $GOOG / $GOOGL, Facebook $FB, Twitter $TWTR, Verisign $VRSN, Amazon $AMZN. See also


4) Unicorn: Chinese bike-sharing startup Ofo (domain: ofo.so) in talks to raise $1 billion in a new funding round led by Japan's SoftBank Group--Reuters.com.

5) SoundCloud #FAIL:‘25 million plays, and zero dollars’--How SoundCloud's broken business model drove artists away | TheVerge.com.

6)  Post-Brexit world: work has already started on a new UK-US bilateral trade agreement between the two countries effective upon Brexit--Reuters.com.

7) ICYMI Tech News:
  • Samsung's semiconductor unit brought in $15.8 billion last quarter, passing Intel ($14.76 billion in chip sales)--Fortune.com.

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