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| Tim O'Reilly / Quartz: |
Hoffman and Yeh's “Blitzscaling” offers practical advice for startups but presents a lot of revisionist history and ignores the perils of VC-fueled hypergrowth — The pursuit of monopoly has led Silicon Valley astray. — Look no further than the race between Lyft and Uber to dominate the online ride-hailing market.
Tweets: @ulaar, @joshelman, @schulte_stef, @swardley, @stevesi, @gaberivera, @metaviv, and @timoreilly
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Spotify's bet on Gimlet and Anchor gives it a foothold into podcasting to apply its listener monetization skills without worrying about sending money to labels — Credit Spotify CEO Daniel Ek with honesty; in a blog post announcing a major move into the podcast space, Ek wrote:
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| Peter Rubin / Wired: |
How chains like Cinemark and AMC are testing high-end, immersive multiplayer VR experiences in select movie theaters — ONCE UPON A time, the company with the biggest screens in the world made a big bet on virtual reality. IMAX opened seven VR centers in movie theaters around the globe …
Tweets: @provenself, @wired, and @wired
| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Fitbit launches Inspire, its first fitness tracker available exclusively through its corporate, wellness, health plan, and health systems partners — Fitbit has recently introduced a new activity and sleep tracker. But unlike it's previous devices, this one is only available if your health plan or employer is signed up with Fitbit.
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| Victor Luckerson / The Ringer: |
Following major tech scandals, a look at how Stanford University is reevaluating its role in shaping Silicon Valley's future employees and leaders — Stanford has established itself as the epicenter of computer science, and a farm system for the tech giants.| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
Amazon now has 288M sq. ft. of warehouses, offices, retail stores, and data centers; all retail adds up to less than 20M sq. ft. and all of AWS uses 10M sq. ft. — The data on the company's real-estate holdings reveal a remarkable inflection point. — Amazon's origin story is firmly embedded …
Tweets: @sandeepssrin and @peiohr
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Waymo CTO talks about the early days of Google's self-driving project, its 10th anniversary, Waymo's plans to expand commercially beyond ride-hailing, more — A decade ago, about a dozen or so engineers gathered at Google's main Mountain View campus on Charleston Road to work on Project Chauffeur …
Tweets: @maxbraun and @kirstenkorosec
| Casey Ross / STAT: |
A look at how US hospitals are integrating voice assistants like Alexa into patient care and the challenges facing them — At first it was a novelty: Hospitals began using voice assistants to allow patients to order lunch, check medication regimens, and get on-demand medical advice at home.
Tweets: @daniel_kraft, @harvardmed, @mayoclinic, and @drjoyeeta
| Nate Oh / AnandTech: |
AMD Radeon VII review: at $699, the first 7nm gaming GPU is good value when used as a high-VRAM prosumer card but for pure gamers there are better options — For AMD's Radeon Technologies Group, 2018 was a bit of a breather year. After launching the Polaris architecture in 2016 … | Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Hasty adoption of California's privacy law left many unresolved issues and privacy advocates fear industry lobbying will lead to revisions that weaken the law — SACRAMENTO — A landmark law adopted in California last year to rein in the data-collection practices of Facebook … | Owen Williams / Charged: |
Google's policies about inclusion of small publishers in Google News, one of the biggest news platforms on the internet, are opaque and applied at random — There's been a lot of discussion about the future of publishing over the last few years, particularly as Facebook traffic began cratering …
Tweets: @ow
| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
DoorDash says it stands behind its pay policy, which uses tips to help cover what it owes delivery drivers, similar to the policy Instacart reversed this week — Startups like to test boundaries. At their best, they push technological ones. At their worst, they breach legal or ethical limits.
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