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VOICE ARCHIVE

Michael

@mparekh
19 posts
2023-09-27
Key ingredients: “Central to the success of the #BJP, a party with 180 million members, is a massive messaging machine built on top of U.S. social media platforms.” #Tech #India #Geopolitics #Markets #AI $META $GOOG #WhatsApp #Jio #Reliance https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-09-27 View on X
Washington Post

Staffers and allies of India's BJP detail how they crafted posts for a vast network of WhatsApp groups aimed at exploiting the fears of the Hindu majority

MUDBIDRI, India — At first, the WhatsApp messages touted roads paved, schools built, free food distributed to the poor … X: @malavtweets , @digitaldutta , @mparekh , @gerryshih , @...

2023-07-10
Threading needle: “We seek to diversify, not to decouple. A decoupling of the world's two largest economies would be destabilizing for the global economy, and it would be virtually impossible to undertake.” #Tech #China #Markets #Chips via @NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-07-10 View on X
New York Times

Chipmakers find it harder to operate in China but say that doing business there is key to their survival, as the country accounts for roughly a third of sales

2023-07-09
Threading needle: “We seek to diversify, not to decouple. A decoupling of the world's two largest economies would be destabilizing for the global economy, and it would be virtually impossible to undertake.” #Tech #China #Markets #Chips via @NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-07-09 View on X
New York Times

Chipmakers find it harder to operate in China but say that doing business there is key to their survival, as the country accounts for roughly a third of sales

Chipmakers are finding it increasingly hard to operate in China but say doing business in the country is still key to their survival.

2023-06-03
Too alarmist: “We're really in a crisis point,” Sarah T. Roberts, assoc. professor at UCLA in digital labor. “#AI is coming for jobs that were supposed to be automation-proof.” #Tech hasn't been that since the Wheel. Grows #Markets & #GDP exponentially. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-06-03 View on X
Washington Post

ChatGPT and other LLM tools have already replaced some marketing and social media writers as many companies decide cutting costs is worth the drop in quality

Technology used to automate dirty and repetitive jobs.  Now, artificial intelligence chatbots are coming after high-paid ones.

2023-05-19
Big deal for #Cable vs #Streaming: “#ESPN is laying the foundation for selling its main #TV channel directly to consumers as a subscription streaming service, working under the internal codename “Flagship"". #Tech #Media #Markets https://www.wsj.com/...
2023-05-19 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: ESPN is laying the groundwork to offer its TV channel as a subscription streaming service by securing flexibility in league and cable provider deals

essentially a private sector income tax on almost every household, divided generously among media cos. Bye! https://www.wsj.com/... Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers : Massive and long-ant...

2023-02-27
Must read piece by @ranjanxroy on where #Amazon (AND #Apple/#Google) went wrong with their #Voice platforms (Spoiler: Oligopolistic Weedy Walled Gardens). &, “One thing that has gotten progressively worse: annoying follow-up questions.” Looking at you #Echo, #Siri, #Nest. $AMZN... https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-27 View on X
Margins

How the potential of voice as a platform was wasted: closed ecosystems, overly ambitious proclamations, distorted monopolistic incentives, and too much capital

2023-02-26
Must read piece by @ranjanxroy on where #Amazon (AND #Apple/#Google) went wrong with their #Voice platforms (Spoiler: Oligopolistic Weedy Walled Gardens). &, “One thing that has gotten progressively worse: annoying follow-up questions.” Looking at you #Echo, #Siri, #Nest. $AMZN... https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-26 View on X
Margins

How the potential of voice as a platform was wasted: closed ecosystems, overly ambitious claims, distorted monopolistic incentives, and too much capital

Sometimes innovation just ain't enough … I have four Echo devices in my household.  For years, we used them to control the lights in our apartment … Tweets: @lutherlowe , @ranjanxr...

2023-02-18
A Close-up of the six nomadic #Bitcoin #Core #Maintainers: “Six mysterious coders have a critical role in bitcoin but are largely unknown to the millions who own the cryptocurrency.” #Crypto #Tech https://www.wsj.com/...
2023-02-18 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A look at Bitcoin's five maintainers scattered globally, who steward the open-source Bitcoin Core, after four turnovers in 18 months cited burnout or legal risk

Developers with power to change the cryptocurrency's software hold an unorthodox role, are elusive—and have been known to head off disaster for the coin

2022-11-06
The “most efficient #Bitcoin mining machines are selling for 77% less than last year. The machines, used to process transactions, currently cost about $24 per 100 “terahashes,” a measure of the machine's computing power, vs $106 a year ago.” https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-11-06 View on X
Wall Street Journal

The most efficient bitcoin mining machines are selling for ~$24 per 100 terahashes, down from $106 in 2021, as unprofitable miners are forced to sell equipment

Unprofitable miners have become forced sellers of their own crypto equipment  —  There's a fire sale on bitcoin-mining hardware.

2022-06-27
Majority Report. #China #Tech via @NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-06-27 View on X
New York Times

Hundreds of documents detail the software bought by China to sift through its vast troves of surveillance data to “predict” who will become troublemakers

The more than 1.4 billion people living in China are constantly watched.  They are recorded by police cameras that are everywhere …

Flood unleashed: “Jeff Bezos wanted to build the ‘everything store’—and now the company is drowning in China-based sellers hawking the same items under a dizzying array of brands.” $AMZN #China https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-06-27 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A look at Amazon's fight with China-based sellers of generic items trying to game its algorithm to develop Marketplace brands and get the “Amazon's Choice” tag

Jeff Bezos wanted to build the ‘everything store’—and now the company is drowning in China-based sellers hawking the same items under a dizzying array of brands

2022-06-26
Flood unleashed: “Jeff Bezos wanted to build the ‘everything store’—and now the company is drowning in China-based sellers hawking the same items under a dizzying array of brands.” $AMZN #China https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-06-26 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A look at Amazon's fight with China-based sellers of generic items trying to game its algorithm to develop Marketplace brands and get the “Amazon's Choice” tag

Jeff Bezos wanted to build the ‘everything store’—and now the company is drowning in China-based sellers hawking the same items under a dizzying array of brands

2021-11-18
Great chat ⁦@bchesky⁩ and ⁦@reckless⁩ ($ABNB Founder/CEO & ⁦@verge⁩ Editor-in-chief: “20% of our biz, our fastest growing segment, are for stays > a month. We're not just in the business of traveling: we're now in the business of living”. https://www.theverge.com/...
2021-11-18 View on X
The Verge

Q&A: Brian Chesky on how he restructured Airbnb during the pandemic, running a public company, crypto, the metaverse, working with Jony Ive's LoveFrom, and more

“empowering them to do their jobs.” I don't think that is good leadership at all.” https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... Nilay Patel / @reckless : Talked to Airbnb C...

2021-11-08
Old is Gold: “Bidding wars for used equipment have spiraled; a Canon FPA3000i4, a piece of lithography gear manufactured in 1995, used to etch circuits in chips, was worth $100,000 in October 2014, & today goes for $1.7 million”. https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-11-08 View on X
Wall Street Journal

How a scarcity of secondhand chip manufacturing machines, which use older fabrication techniques, has exacerbated the global chip shortage

2021-11-07
Old is Gold: “Bidding wars for used equipment have spiraled; a Canon FPA3000i4, a piece of lithography gear manufactured in 1995, used to etch circuits in chips, was worth $100,000 in October 2014, & today goes for $1.7 million”. https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-11-07 View on X
Wall Street Journal

How a scarcity of secondhand chip manufacturing machines, which use older fabrication techniques, has exacerbated the global chip shortage

The world is hungry for semiconductors, and not all of them need to be made with cutting-edge technology.  The race is on to find older machines that can still crank out chips. Twe...

2021-08-23
Edge cases. Always the Edge cases. Not as easy as it looks. Games today, auto driving Cars tomorrow. https://www.ign.com/...
2021-08-23 View on X
IGN

Game developers across the industry describe the complexity of making what seem like simple things in games, from doors to object interaction and more

Rebekah Valentine / IGN : Tweets: @javierabegazo , @krides , @liambme , @jennyyokobori , @mparekh , @jeff_tanton , @adambankhurst , @ysbrydgames , @therealandymc , and @bc_trevor ...

2021-05-11
Must read piece by ⁦@eric_seufert⁩ of ⁦@MobileDevMemo⁩ on how Apple played Facebook et al on the online advertising exploding money pile. $AAPL $FB https://mobiledevmemo.com/...
2021-05-11 View on X
Mobile Dev Memo

Apple's ATT privacy policy is a commercial land grab dressed up as a moral crusade and it will ultimately subvert the open web and the freemium business model

Last week, Apple introduced a new ad unit to the App Store: a paid placement on its Search page.  —  Rumors of this new unit had circulated previously

2021-03-12
Up next: $CPNG: https://www.cnbc.com/....
2021-03-12 View on X
CNBC

South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang closes its first day of trading at $49.25 a share, down from $63.50, after raising $4.2B in an IPO at a valuation of ~$60B

Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC :

2020-01-13
Worth a close reading every year. Thanks again @stevesi ! https://twitter.com/...
2020-01-13 View on X
Learning By Shipping

CES 2020 show notes: a look at 12 technologies/categories, the raw materials of the primordial soup of innovation that the show has become over the years

CES continues to be an event where you can see the raw materials of the next big thing far more often than you can see the next big thing. Tweets: @backlon , @amritsf , @gassee , @...