Retailers Tracking Customers' Movements, Future of Retail? (video)

Stores are starting to track your every move

Location-based apps are helping retailers track movement of its customers. CNBC's Uptin Saiidi explores how the future of retail is being shaped in China. CNBC International video above published on Mar 7, 2019.

Tracking takes place through apps for which users have enabled location services (e.g., weather, mapping, or ride-sharing apps). Seven apps have location tracking enabled on an average smartphone in China, according to Cosmose.

Cosmose, a retail tech start-up, connects anonymous movements of more than 1 billion smartphones in Asia to retailers like L’Oreal, Burberry and Budweiser.

Domain: cosmose.co
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Peter Chernin On The Future of Digital Entertainment (video)

Peter Chernin: The Future of Digital Entertainment

In an episode of Talks at GS, filmed at Goldman Sachs’ Builders + Innovators Summit, media executive Peter Chernin discussed the evolution of digital entertainment and how the business continues to adapt for a changing consumer. Goldman Sachs (goldmansachs.com) video above published Nov 9, 2018 (via YouTube.com).

Competition for Consumers: “I’m a big believer in try[ing] to think about where consumers are being underserved.… I think there’s one huge chokepoint in the whole thing right now, which is curation, recommendation. I think there is so much stuff out there and I think consumers are wildly underserved…. It’s not money that’s the scarce commodity in that sense, because Netflix is a great bargain. It’s time. It’s how do you figure out what is worth my two hours tonight?”

Brand identity in a digital world: “Branding is certainly enormously important.  I think that… the really interesting challenge from… a digital perspective right now is the balance between customer acquisition, marketing dollars and brand marketing dollars. In general, I think most certainly nascent digital brands are better off spending most of their money on customer acquisition marketing…. So, the brand is hugely important, but I’m not sure I would be marketing it.”

See also:

• Netflix will get ads, predicts The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green--Reed Hastings wants to compete with YouTube overseas, and the only way it can do that is by offering a free-with-ads option, says Green. 

• The Best Video Streaming Services of 2018 | pcmag.com;

• The convergence of TV and digital: How broadcasters are building for success | Google.com (pdf).

One streaming service (of many): Hulu (domain: hulu.com):
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The Future of Autonomous Vehicles

 Americans Expect Driverless (Autonomous) Cars to Be Common in 10 Years

source: statista.com

Autonomous Vehicles Are Quickly Improving

source: statista.com

The future of autonomous vehicles

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5G Mobile Networks, A Deep Dive Into The Future

Who will get 5G networks deployed first? U.S., China, and South Korea are leading, depending on the factors one measures: launch, coverage, etc. The U.S. will have some 5G smartphone service next year with a few commercial launches for mobile broadband this year. China is investing much more in 5G and will likely be the first nation with broadly deployed 5G networks. See also The hot race for 5G will change the world we know now | TheHill.com.

Deep Dive: The future of 5G

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Billionaire Peter Thiel on Trade & Tariffs, Bitcoin, Privacy, and Trump (video)

President Trump Signs a Presidential Memorandum Targeting China's Economic Aggression

The WhiteHouse.gov video above published Mar 22, 2018

Billionaire Peter Thiel: Innovation, Bitcoin and Politics (2018)

Interview Date:15 March 2018
Event: The Economic Club of New York

An interview with billionaire venture capitalist and co-founder Valar Ventures, Peter Thiel. In this interview with Maria Bartiromo, Thiel discusses how to create innovation and what future innovation he would invest in. He also talks about Bitcoin, privacy, trade and tariffs, and why he supports President Trump.

On privacy (starts at 30:00):

Question: I want to ask you your thoughts on privacy at a time when these technology companies are so successful, more successful and more powerful than they ever have been in terms of having so much information on all of us, you backed Hulk Hogan's successful triumph over Gawker Media and that sex tape that they resulted in a 140 million dollar judgment against Gawker forcing the media company into bankruptcy. You're a libertarian, I want to get your take on how you see the privacy issues versus this powerful position so many of these technology companies are in. I'm leaning to a question about regulation but first why was this Gawker situation so important to you?

Answer: "Well I think that I'm very proud of having supported Hulk Hogan in his in his a successful lawsuit, you know this sort of egregious [conduct], the claim that you know a pornographer pays people for sex tapes and a journalist is someone who gets to publish sex tapes without paying people that's simply an insult to journalists and that's what that is what Gawker was in effect arguing. You know there is a First Amendment we believe in, free speech, but that doesn't mean that you get to steal a sex tape made in the privacy of a bedroom and post it on the internet for everybody to see and ... of course we have a Fourth Amendment which protects you against unreasonable search and seizure not just by the government but certainly also by by private actors ... I'd seen them [Gawker] you know bully and mistreat people for you know for a long time and I thought it was going to continue ... this ongoing tortious behavior was simply going to continue and someone needed to to try to say stop ...

"This question about privacy in the digital era is something that deserves to be rethought a lot and it's not a matter of technological determinism. We often like to tell these technologically determinist stories where if you are pro privacy you are a Luddite and that privacy is an old-fashioned concept, it went out the window and it's no longer possible in the technological world.

"I don't think that's true. I think it is not always just a technological question. It's a legal question, it's a cultural, social, political question and I think that we're going to have a balance that will be, it will protect more privacy in the future. Now I do think that what Gawker did and what the big tech companies are doing is very different. I mean I think one very basic difference is if you voluntarily give the information, that's quite different from from it being sort of illegally obtained and sort of privacy violating way, but I think these things are always open to be rethought ... as a libertarian I always dislike regulation and worry the regulators will do whatever they will do in an even more ham-handed way and will make mistakes even greater than the companies ... but I would agree with you, that if they don't take these issues seriously, there is a risk they will be regulated whether that's a good thing or not. I think the threat is probably greater in Europe and again there's sort of good reasons and bad reasons. Good reasons are these privacy concerns. The bad reasons are that there are no successful [big] tech companies in Europe and they're jealous of the U.S. and ... they're punishing us, so it's sort of a combination of good and bad reasons but I think the tech industry needs to take this stuff [privacy] very seriously."

See also: Peter Thiel on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Competition (video)

Video Segments:

0:00 Introduction 5:46 How do you see technology changing from here?
13:51 What creates innovation?
15:59 Why have you moved to L.A?
17:20 Why did you support Trump?
19:42 Policies you want to see?
21:57 Views on trade?
24:52 China?
27:15 Are you worried about a trade war?
28:35 Europe? [Editor's note: Thiel comments about U.S. (Trump) vs. China and Germany]
29:59 Thoughts on privacy of technology companies?
33:12 Should there be more regulation?
34:46 Bitcoin? 39:08 Why do you not like other Cryptocurrencies?
40:30 If its price declined, would you buy?
41:42 Thoughts on Space travel?
43:52 Growth stories today?
47:26 Are robots taking over a lot of jobs? [AI]
49:08 Can anyone beat Amazon?
51:43 Other ferocious company?
52:04 Does Trump get a second term?
55:59 Media business?

Transcript (auto-generated, unedited):

Peter Thiel's Book: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel’s Favorite Books:

• 100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family and Faith
• Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
• Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky (Studies in Violence, Mimesis, & Culture) 
• Sir Francis Bacon: The New Atlantis

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Innovation Summit 2017 Video Interview: Kristin Russell, Arrow Electronics

Innovation Summit 2017: Video Interview with Arrow Electronics Global President

Video above from the Innovation Summit 2017: Kristin Russell, Global President, Arrow Electronics. Video published Jul 26, 2017, by Economist.com.

Arrow Electronics is a U.S. Fortune 500 company headquartered in Centennial, Colorado. The company specializes in distribution and value added services relating to electronic components and computer products.

• Stock exchange: symbol  |  NYSE: ARW  (Disclaimer)
• Principal domain: arrow.com

Headquarters: Centennial, CO

Revenue: 23.82 billion USD (2016)
Number of employees: 18,100 (June 2017)
Founded: 1935, New York City, NY
Subsidiaries: Verical, Inc., Chip One Stop, Inc., MORE
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Tech Review: AI, Data, Jet Packs, and the Future of Tech (video)

Tech Review (TR 2017-07-08)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech news:

Features • 1) AI, Data, Jet Packs, and the Future of Tech, 2) EU Antitrust Regulators and Facebook $FB, 3) The Once Great BlackBerry, 4) Microsoft could lay off thousands, 5) Tencent Dominates in China, 6) No Money in Internet Culture, 7) Silicon Valley Cracks, 8) ICYMI Tech News.

1) Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data, Jet Packs, and the Future of Tech:

Video above published Jul 3, 2017, by WSJ.com: The future of technology was up for discussion at the Founders Forum (domain: ff.co), an invite-only community of global entrepreneurs, CEOs, and investors in the digital, media and technology sectors.

2) EU Antitrust Regulators Eye Facebook:

Video above published Jul 3, 2017:  EU Antitrust and Privacy--Facebook Inc.’s small print may be the next big thing in European antitrust as watchdogs home in on how the world’s biggest social network collects information from users that helps generate vast advertising revenues--Bloomberg.com's Alistair Barr reports on "Bloomberg Technology."

3)  The Once Great BlackBerry: On Misleading Positives | BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ:BBRY) | SeekingAlpha.com: "The bearish thesis remains the same: The BlackBerry of today is a collection of small, stagnated and unprofitable businesses, trading for 160x earnings 2 years down the road."

4)  Microsoft could lay off ‘thousands’ as it focuses more on cloud services | TheVerge.com: "Microsoft says it will now focus on two distinct areas: big enterprise customers, and then small to medium-sized businesses."

5)  Tencent Dominates in China. The Next Challenge Is Rest of the World | Bloomberg.com: "The WeChat app has almost a billion users, and many of them use it all day. So why isn’t the company everywhere by now?"

6)  No Money in Internet Culture: Tumblr's uncertain future indicates the difficulty of monetizing internet culture (creative expression or content), as do Twitter, Reddit, 4chan, and even YouTube--nymag.com

7) Silicon Valley Begins to Crack Visibly | WolfStreet.com: "Chilling photos of for-lease signs lining the Great America Parkway"

8) ICYMI Tech News:

• Qualcomm accuses Apple of infringing six patents in iPhone, iPad | Reuters.com

• Alibaba Challenges Google, Amazon With New Echo-Like Device | Bloomberg.com

• Google to start getting Norwegian wind power by September | Reuters.com

• Amazon completes $580M acquisition of Middle East e-commerce giant Souq.com | GeekWire.com

• Tesla April registrations drop in key California market | Reuters.com: down 24% from April 2016.

• So where does Uber’s value come from anyway? | TheDrum.com

• U.S. card firm Vantiv goes global with $10 billion Worldpay [UK] buy | Reuters.com

• Amazon’s Alexa passes 15,000 skills, up from 10,000 in February | TechCrunch.com

• Mexico's America Movil (with two-thirds of Mexico's mobile subscriptions) details argument in telecom dispute | Reuters.com

• WeChat Pay Open Platform for Overseas Merchants | ChinaInternetWatch.com

• Chairman of struggling Ericsson to stand down | Reuters.com

• Cisco happy FTC will limit Broadcom with Brocade | BusinessInsider.com

• U.S. government seeks to intervene in Apple's EU tax appeal: source | Reuters.com

• The sun could hit us with super-intense space rays soon | news.com.au

• Red Ventures to buy Bankrate.com for $1.24 billion | Reuters.com

• What SMEs need to know about the Bitcoin Bubble | ITProPortal.com: "The world of cryptocurrencies continues to be a minefield."

-- John Poole, Editor, Domain Mondo  

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The Future of Ride-Hailing Apps, as Seen by Grab CEO Anthony Tan (video)

The Future of Ride-Hailing Apps, as Seen by Grab

Video above published Jun 9, 2017: Anthony Tan, CEO of Grab (domain: grab.com), said during WSJ D.Live Asia that his Singapore-based ride-hailing company is betting on closer collaboration with taxi companies and innovations such as "chat-bots" translators helping drivers and customers communicate.
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Scott Galloway: Teens as a Forward-Looking Indicator (video)

Scott Galloway: Teens as a Forward-Looking Indicator

Published Apr 27, 2017 by L2inc.com: The best forward-looking indicator for brands? What teens are into this year? Chick-fil-A, Nike, and Snapchat.

Loser: Apple, which convinced 90 million Americans to buy iPhones but can't make them use those phones to pay for products.

Winner: road safety as ride-hailing apps prevent deaths from drunk driving.

Sources:
(0:07) “Teens Throw It Back To The ‘90s With Their Stan Smiths; Spending Shifting To Starbucks, Video Games And Amazon,” Piper Jaffray, April 2017. http://bit.ly/2p9LHxv
(0:24) “Teens Throw It Back To The ‘90s With Their Stan Smiths; Spending Shifting To Starbucks, Video Games And Amazon,” Piper Jaffray, April 2017.http://bit.ly/2p9LHxv
(0:45) “Number of iPhone Users in the United States from 2012 to 2016 (in Millions),” Statista, 2015. http://bit.ly/2pDB8U6
(0:48) “U.S. iPhone Ownership Reaches All-Time High on Strength of iPhone 7,” comScore, April 2017. http://bit.ly/2pDHcM7
(0:52) “An Inconvenient Apple Pay Truth” PYMNTS.com, April 2017. http://bit.ly/2oZ2mkp
(1:02) “Apple Pay Promised to Make Plastic Obsolete. Then Came Wary Shoppers, Confused Clerks,” The Wall Street Journal, April 2017. http://on.wsj.com/2oB9tT7
(1:14) L2 Analysis of Apple App Store data.
(1:19) “An Inconvenient Apple Pay Truth” PYMNTS.com, April 2017. http://bit.ly/2oZ2mkp
(1:28) “New York City Drunk Driving After Uber,” Jessica Lynn Peck, 2017. http://bit.ly/2oDpK9I
(1:35) “Impaired Driving: Get the Facts,” CDC, 2015. http://bit.ly/2j3EUBH
(1:43) “NONE FOR THE ROAD,” The Economist, January 2017. http://bit.ly/2qcq2oT
(1:52) “Uber Basks in Phenomenal SA Growth,” memeburn, February 2016. http://bit.ly/2p7ZlR4
Music: Say My Name (feat. Zyra) - Hayden James Remix http://bit.ly/1lgAHbQ

YouTube.com auto-generated transcript:
0:02  The best forward-looking indicator for brands?
0:03  What teens are into.
0:05  Teens spend more money on food than anything else,
0:08  including apparel.
0:10  Their favorite restaurant? Chick-fil-A.
0:12  Chick-fil-A? Really?
0:13  Taco Cabana or Cinnabon - that's a real fast food chain.
0:17  Athleisure is still in.
0:19  41% of teens cite an athletic brand
0:21  as their favorite clothing label,
0:23  up from 26% last year.
0:25  And their favorite social platform?
0:27  Snapchat.
0:28  I've been told in our comments, no joke,
0:30  that I look like Ryan Reynolds
0:31  when you sort of flick in and out
0:33  of a filter on Snapchat
0:35  and if you're on meth.
0:40  A loser: Apple.
0:41  The most valuable company in the world
0:43  convinced 90 million Americans to buy iPhones
0:45  but it's struggling to get them to use those iPhones to pay for products.
0:49  Just a third of Americans with Apple Pay-enabled devices have tried the service
0:53  and few ever use it again.
0:54  The number of people who used Apple Pay
0:56  more than once in a month
0:58  peaked in March of 2015.
1:00  Apple blames the poor adoption on retailers.
1:03  Let me get this.
1:04  Your PR executives went to the same graduate school as the executives at Pepsi and United.
1:09  It's your fault, retailers.
1:11  Anyways, only five of the 100 brands in our Specialty Retail study
1:15  accept Apple Pay.
1:16  But the real reason the service hasn't taken off?
1:18  Consumers prefer credit cards.
1:21  A winner?
1:22  Road safety,
1:23  as ride-hailing apps prevent deaths from drunk driving.
1:25  After Uber launched in New York in 2011,
1:28  alcohol-related traffic accidents fell by 25 to 35%.
1:32  Every day 28 people in the US die in alcohol-related crashes,
1:37  which account for a third of traffic-related deaths.
1:40  Uber's arrival could be even more meaningful in South Africa
1:44  where almost two-thirds of road deaths are alcohol-related,
1:48  the highest proportion in the world.
1:49  The company grew faster during its first year in Johannesburg and Cape Town
1:53  than London or San Francisco.
1:56  We leave you this week
1:57  with this stunning visualization of New York City commuter trips
2:00  created by Will Geary
2:02  set to my favorite DJ.

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The Internet Society's 25th Anniversary Plans

The Internet Society Is 25 Years Old

"This year we celebrate the Internet Society's 25th year of advocacy for an open, trusted Internet available to everyone, everywhere. Today the challenges to the open Internet have never been greater - and we need you to join us in confronting those challenges. During this anniversary year, we don't just want to look back over the past 25 years - we want to apply that experience to look forward to the next 25 years on the Internet."--The Internet Society [domain: internetsociety.org]

25th Anniversary plans include:

25 Under 25 - A new program to shine the light on young people between the ages of 13 and 25 who are using the Internet to make a significant impact on our society.

Community reflections on the Internet - You are invited to share your reflections.

Roundtable series - a series of roundtables this year on topics related to the evolution of the Internet. The first roundtable on May 11 will be hosted in conjunction with Chatham House to explore the impact of the Internet on society.

Investing in our community - Starting in the second quarter of 2017, the Internet Society will deliver a set of tools and resources to help its Chapters promote their work for the Internet and build local and regional relationships.

Internet Futures report - What will the future of the Internet look like? Early findings posted online. The full Internet Futures report will be launched in September with insights into those key driving forces, as well as recommendations for the Internet in the future.

Internet Hall of Fame – In September, the 2017 class of inductees into the Internet Hall of Fame. A special ceremony will recognize individuals who have played an extraordinary role in the development and advancement of the Internet.

Special edition of InterCommunity, 19 September – the global "InterCommunity" membership meeting will kick-off with the presentation of the new class of Internet Hall of Fame inductees. Following the ceremony, community dialogue on topics from the Internet Futures report.

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Nolan Bushnell Keynote: The Future of Technology (video)

Keynote "The Future of Technology", Nolan Bushnell

CeBIT Global Conferences - 23 March 2017: Keynote "The Future of Technology" / Nolan Bushnell, Founder Atari & Father of the video game industry 

Interview with Nolan Bushnell

Published on Mar 23, 2017: Nolan Bushnell is a technology pioneer, entrepreneur, engineer and published author. He is best known as the founder of Atari Corporation and Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater. Often cited as the Father of the video game industry, Mr. Bushnell introduced videogames to the masses with "Pong" and many other legendary games.

Over four decades, Bushnell has been a prolific entrepreneur, founding numerous companies, including: Catalyst Technologies, the first technology incubator; Etak, the first car navigation system whose mapping is still the basis for car navigation systems today; Androbot, a personal robotics company; and ByVideo, the first online ordering system.

With his latest startup, BrainRush, he is intent on fixing education with software that uses gamification principles to "addict" students to learning. 

Nolan famously was also the first and only boss Steve Jobs ever had when he worked at Atari. In Walter Isaacson's book "Steve Jobs", Nolan is described as one of the most important mentors and influences in Job's life. Nolan published his first book in 2013, "Finding the Next Steve Jobs". In it he explains how to find, hire and nurture creative people.


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CeBIT Keynote: Androids, Robots, and Our Future Life (video)

CeBIT Keynote "Androids, Robots, and Our Future Life"

Video above published Mar 21, 2017: CeBIT [domain: cebit.de] Global Conferences 21 March 2017: Keynote "Androids, Robots, and Our Future Life" by Hiroshi Ishiguro, Professor at Osaka University and Visiting Director, ATR Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories.

Excerpts from the video:

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5G Is Coming! FCC Chair Tom Wheeler at CTIA Super Mobility 2016

FCC Chairman Wheeler: Keynote Remarks at CTIA Super Mobility 2016:

Sep 7, 2016: FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler addressed CTIA #SuperMobility 2016 attendees, discussing his priorities for the agency. Among the topics discussed included privacy, innovation, infrastructure and spectrum.

"One thing you’ll take away this week is that 5G is coming & it’s coming fast."--Meredith Baker, @CTIA President/CEO

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler at CTIA Super Mobility 2016 (full transcript embed below):

• More people around the world connected to the mobile network than to the electric grid.  
• Here comes 5G ... 5G is like the missing piece of the puzzle depicting the wireless future. 
• Gigabit mobile connections at any location will open up hugely disruptive new value propositions for the users of networks. 
• The Internet’s open design is protected by FCC rules. 
• What’s still missing? Ultra-high-speed, high-capacity, low-latency, secure mobile connectivity. That's what 5G delivers.  
• Wireless data use more than doubled from 2014 to 2015, and continued growth is projected for the foreseeable future. 
• 3 keys for what the Commission [FCC.gov] can do to help unlock the 5G opportunity: spectrum; infrastructure (backhaul); siting.
• 5G is not a technology.  It is a revolution. 

CTIA Super Mobility 2016 | ctialatest.org/sm16/ Keynotes Sept 7-9:
•  September 7th: 9:00am – 10:30am (PST) Keynote Session (in order of appearance):

• CTIA President & CEO Meredith Attwell Baker
• CTIA Chairman and AT&T Mobility and Consumer Operations President & CEO Glenn Lurie
• FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler (transcript below)
• The Chernin Group CEO Peter Chernin
• GSMA Director General Mats Granryd

•  September 8th: 9:00am – 10:30am (PST) Keynote Session (in order of appearance):

• Verizon EVP & President of Operations John Stratton
• Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. EVP & CTO Matt Grob
• Chairman & CEO Axs TV and Owner Mark Cuban
• Nokia President & CEO Rajeev Suri

•  September 9th: 9:30am – 10:30am (PST) Keynote Session - Musician, producer, philanthropist and entrepreneur John Legend

How's this for a #wireless stat? @ATT's Glenn Lurie showcases US leadership in #mobile. #SuperMobility @CTIAShows pic.twitter.com/rlyaXCEJrS

— Mobile Future (@mobilefuture) September 7, 2016

2015 US data stats: 2.9 trillion minutes, 9.6 trillion megabites, 1.9 trillion texts. #SuperMobility #CTIA #CTIA2016 pic.twitter.com/gxF8ZLOdKJ

— Ericsson N. America (@EricssonNA) September 7, 2016

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China: Yuan, Markets, Economy, 'Don't Worry, Everything Is Under Control'

China: Yuan, Markets, Economy--'Don't Worry, Everything Is Under Control'--

PIMCO's Crescenzi: No One Knows What China Will Do Next - PIMCO's Anthony Crescenzi discusses his outlook for China and market volatility. He spoke on "Bloomberg Markets" on January 15, 2016 (video above). 

The yuan and the markets | The Economist: "... China is not normal. It is caught in a dangerous no-man’s-land between the market and state control. And the yuan is the prime example ... because a stronger [U.S.] dollar has been dragging up the yuan, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has tried to abandon its loose peg against the greenback since August; but it is still targeting a basket of currencies. A gradual loosening of capital controls means savers have plenty of ways to get their money out. A weakening economy, a quasi-fixed exchange rate and more porous capital controls are a volatile combination. Looser monetary policy would boost demand. But it would also weaken the currency; and that prospect is already prompting savers to shovel their money offshore. In the last six months of 2015 capital left China at an annualised rate of about $1 trillion. The persistent gap between the official value of the yuan and its price in offshore markets suggests investors expect the government to allow the currency to fall even further in [the] future ... The government has reacted by trying to rig markets. The PBOC has squeezed the fledgling offshore market in Hong Kong by buying up yuan so zealously that the overnight interest rate spiked on January 12th at 67%. Likewise, in the stockmarket it has instructed the “national team” of state funds to stick to the policy of buying and holding shares ..." (emphasis added, read more at the link above)

1-year chart of the Shanghai Composite Index (source: google.com)

Twitter feed--Shanghai Composite Index--
Tweets about Shanghai Composite Index

See also: Xi’s new model army | The Economist: "... Late in 2014 President Xi Jinping went to Gutian, a small town in the south where, 85 years before, Mao had first laid down the doctrine that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is the armed force not of the government or the country but of the Communist Party. Mr Xi stressed the same law to the assembled brass: the PLA is still the party’s army; it must uphold its “revolutionary traditions” and maintain absolute loyalty to its political masters. His words were a prelude to sweeping reforms in the PLA that have unfolded in the past month, touching almost every military institution. The aim of these changes is twofold—to strengthen Mr Xi’s grip on the 2.3m-strong armed forces, which are embarrassingly corrupt at the highest level, and to make the PLA a more effective fighting force ..."

See on Domain Mondo:

• After Wuzhen, Should ICANN President & CEO Fadi Chehade Be Fired?
• What Domain Mondo Will Be Watching For in 2016
• China, ICANN, Domain Names, Lies, Facts, Hype, Truth (video)

Caveat Emptor!

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Back to the Future: ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom, CSIS Keynote, 2012 video

Back to the Future: ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom CSIS Keynote Speech, 10 Jan 2012

CSIS Keynote Speech by Rod Beckstrom, CEO of ICANN in 2012- The Future of the Internet - Who Decides? | 10 Jan 2012 - Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) keynote speech - The Future of the Internet - Who Decides? | 10 Jan 2012--Rod Beckstrom: Some new gTLDs will fail--

Transcript of portion of speech, time marked:
....
30:37now some people ask it and they say  are these new gTLDs going to be
30:41successful
30:43or how many are gonna fail of course you know how you define
30:47success and how you define failure I and certainly
30:51who will decide? Users of the world will decide
30:55Organizations will decide what succeeds and what's not successful
30:59ICANN's concern is not about the individual
31:03business marketing or organizational usage success of a top-level domain
31:08it's that the global Internet domain name system be secure
31:12and stable and reliable and that's what the checks are in for the system
31:16and in the community cares about protecting rights holders such as
31:19trademarks
31:20 so we'll see some successes, we will see some failures

....

See also on Domain Mondo: 

• ICANN Insiders On New gTLDs: Mistakes, Fiascos, Horrible Implementation
• ICANN Process for New gTLDs Dysfunctional -- from the beginning
• That Frank Schilling Prediction about dot COM Was WRONG, Surprised?

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Ad Blocks Impact Digital Advertising (video)

Ad Blocks Impact Digital Advertising: the future of digital advertising with Ted Murphy, founder of Izea (izea.com) (Published on Nov 24, 2015)

Tweets about ad blocking
See also:

• Ad Blockers Will Force Reforms in Online Marketing | MIT Technology Review: "Millions of people are refusing to let intrusive, distracting, or irrelevant ads load on our devices. Consumers should seize the opportunity to demand a more mutually beneficial relationship with online advertisers."
• How Ad Design Affects Ad Blocking | DigitalNext - Advertising Age
• Ad Blocking’s Impact on the Digital Advertising Industry - Yahoo Finance
• Ad Blockers: A Candid Conversation With the Major Players in Digital's Hottest Debate | Adweek
• UBS says ad revenue impact of iOS 9 ad blocking will only be $1 billion - Business Insider
• Publishers Worry That Native Ads Are Vulnerable to Ad Blocking - WSJ
• Ad Blocking's Impact on the Digital Advertising Industry - Market Realist

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Worldwide Smartphone Marketshare by Geography, OS, 2015-2019

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Graphic above: 2015-2019 Marketshares IDC Forecast. China, US, Europe decrease, India and "Rest of the World" increase (in terms of percentage of global total marketshare).

IDC Worldwide Smartphone Forecast by OS – Shipments, Market Share, Year-Over-Year Growth, and 5-Year CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) (shipments in millions):

Region	2015* Shipment Volumes	2015* Market Share	2015* YoY Growth	2019* Shipment Volumes	2019* Market Share	2019* YoY Growth	5 year CAGR
Android	1,161.1	81.2%	9.5%	1,538.1	82.6%	4.8%	7.7%
iOS	226.0	15.8%	17.3%	263.4	14.1%	3.1%	6.5%
Windows Phone	31.3	2.2%	-10.2%	43.6	2.3%	11.4%	4.5%
Others	11.3	0.8%	-16.8%	17.1	0.9%	6.5%	4.7%
TOTAL	1,429.8	100.0%	9.8%	1,862.3	100.0%	4.7%	7.4%

*Forecast data; source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, December 2, 2015.
Note: Apple's (iOS) OS global marketshare declines (2015-2019) from 15.8% to 14.1%.

Worldwide Smartphone Market Will See the First Single-Digit Growth Year on Record, According to IDC (press release): "Android's market share is expected to grow slightly from 81% in 2015 to 82% over the forecast period [2015-2019]. Despite numerous attempts by "alternative platforms" to enter the market, none have proved successful. IDC believes the proliferation of the core Android platform will continue with huge efforts being put forth by companies like Cyanogen and Xiaomi to differentiate themselves from their competitors. Given its global footprint and application/services ecosystem, IDC fully expects some form of Android to hold a dominant share of the smartphone OS space for the foreseeable future."

See also:

• DoubleClick Advertiser Blog: "eMarketer estimates that mobile will account for 72% of U.S. digital ad spend by 2019 and Google's tech-forward target audience spends more than 74% of its time on mobile."
• 8 facts that explain Google's complex situation with Chrome OS | CIO: "This explainer puts Android and the Chrome OS into perspective and shows why these Linux derivatives will both come together and remain separate."
• Why iOS and Android will soon become obsolete | CIO: "The market is eventually going to move to one product that scales from a smartphone to a PC. Columnist Rob Enderle says it doesn’t appear that either Apple or Google will dominate this coming shift."

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The Future Infrastructure of the Internet of Things, IoT, Symposium (video)

The Marconi Society Symposium: The Future Infrastructure of the Internet of Things (IoT), Tuesday, October 20 2015, Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, 8:45am -5:15pm, which is 3:45am - 12:15pm EDT (US): 



All times shown are London local time (BST):
8:45 – 10:45 AM Infrastructure Requirements and Network Approaches
Session Chair: Professor Sir David Payne, Director, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton. Chairman, Marconi Society
8:45 – 9:25 AM Infrastructure Requirements: Peter Kirstein, UCL
9:25 AM – 10:45 AM Future Network Approaches – Panel Discussion
Panel Chair, Vint Cerf, Google; Marconi Fellow
Mingxi Fan, VP Engineering, Qualcomm
Sami Susiaho, Sky
Thibaut Kleiner, Director of IoT-CEC
Andy Reid, British Telecom

10:45 – 11:15 AM Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45 PM Identifiers, Interoperability, Big Data
Session Chair: Peter Kirstein, UCL; 2015 Marconi Fellow
11:15 AM Digital Objects and IoT: Robert Kahn, CNRI; Marconi Fellow
11:55 AM Big Data and IoT: Prof. Dame Wendy Hall, University of Southampton

12.30 – 1:45 PM Lunch
12:30 – 1:45 PM Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholars Poster Session
1:45 – 3:00 PM Security, Privacy, and the Civil Society
1:45 Introduction: Vint Cerf
2:00 Panel Chair, Jane Holl Lute, Cybersecurity Council
Ross Anderson, Cambridge University
Antonio Skarmeta, Murcia University
Rob Van Kranenburg, IoT Council
2:30 Panel Q & A

3:00 – 3:30 PM Afternoon Tea Break
3:30 – 5:00 PM Large Scale Pilot Projects
Panel Chair: Robert Kahn Marconi Fellow
Jun Murai, Keio University/WIDE
Luis Muñoz, Smart Santander/University of Cantabria
Chris Greer, NIST
5:00 – 5:15 PM Summary/Wrap-up – Vint Cerf

The Future Infrastructure of the Internet of Things: (Press Release) "2015 Marconi Prize Winner Peter Kirstein will give the keynote in the 2015 Marconi Society Symposium on October 20th, 2015 at the Royal Society. He’ll be joined by top technology experts from across the globe to discuss the latest issues around “The Future Infrastructure of the Internet of Things.” The event honors Kirstein, often referred to as “the father of the European Internet”, whose tireless advocacy and pioneering technical contributions helped bring the Internet not only to Europe but to India and Asia. Among the speakers will be such luminaries as Prof. Dame Wendy Hall, Managing Director of the Web Science Trust; Cambridge Professor Ross Anderson, an international expert in cyber security; Robert Kahn, co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol and Chairman/CEO of CNRI; Thibaut Kleiner, Director IoT-CEC; Prof. Jun Murai, an expert in global computer networking at Japan’s Keio University and President of the WIDE Internet project; and Vint Cerf, co-inventor of TCP/IP protocol and vice president of Google ...."


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Yves Béhar, Fuseproject, the Future of Tech and Design (video)

How Silicon Valley Is Rethinking Design: Yves Béhar, Fuseproject's founder and principal designer, discusses the future of tech and design with Bloomberg's Emily Chang and Brad Stone at the VF New Establishment Summit in San Francisco. Published on Oct 8, 2015.

"Fuseproject is an award-winning industrial design and branding firm founded in 1999 by the designer and entrepreneur Yves Béhar. It works across a wide array of industries including beauty and fashion, furniture and technology. The company is based in San Francisco and New York." (source: Wikipedia) see tweets below re: Movado watch

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GE, Minds+Machines 2015, Industrial Internet, Digital Innovation, Day 1

Minds+Machines 2015 - Day 1 - GE - September 29, 2015, San Francisco: CEO Jeff Immelt and a global community of industry experts at Minds + Machines, GE’s fourth annual #IndustrialInternet event. 

1:00 PM - 1:40 PM  [all times PT - Pacific Time (US)]
Opening Keynote - Vision for the Industrial Internet
Speakers: Jeffrey R. Immelt, Bill Ruh, Harel Kodesh, Roger Pilc, Beth Comstock

1:40 PM - 2:10 PM Building Digital Industries
Speakers: Jamie Miller, Jo-ann Olsovsky, David Feineman, Steve Bolze, Michael Pacilio, Ganesh Bell, Jim Fortner, Jim Walsh, Peter Lawson

2:10 PM - 2:25 PM Revolutionizing 21st Century Infrastructure

2:25 PM - 2:40 PM Securing our Most Important Assets (Cybersecurity)
Speaker: Keith Alexander

2:40 PM - 3:15 PM What's Possible
Speakers: Adam Steltzner, Colin Parris, Jonathan Downey
Moderator: Katrina Craigwell

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM Break
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM A Whole New Train of Thought - Optimized Assets to Drive Key Outcomes
Speakers: Rodney Case, John Paul “JP” Soltesz

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM Brilliant Manufacturing - Transforming Manufacturing Operations 
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM Lighting + The Most Valuable Real Estate in the Industrial Internet
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM Power & Water - Digital Utility of The Future 
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM Predix - The Cloud Platform for Industrial Innovation
Speakers: Avner Ben-Bassat, Eric Bantegnie, Harel Kodesh, John Magee, Mark Gazit, Nikhil Hasija,
Nir Livneh, Nurgeo Ervin, Richard Soley, Ron Karidi, T.M. Ravi, Sam Ramji, Jayraj Nair, Anupam Singhal  
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM Step into the Future of Oil & Gas: Fueling Outcomes with Software & Analytics
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM Transforming Airline Operations with Data Analytics 
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM Transforming Healthcare Operations with Data 
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM Transforming Marine Operations Through Big Data
(source: Minds + Machines 2015, Day 1, Sept 29, 2015)

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