Amazonizacja biznesu

Można się śmiać, że Jeff Bezos był najbogatszym człowiekiem na ziemi tylko przez pół dnia (ha ha). Patrząc co zrobił z Amazonem i co szykuje nam w następnych latach całkiem poważnie czy ta firma nie powinna zostać globalnie uregulowana i po prostu podzielona. Amazon zaczyna wytwarzać taką "grawitację" w e-commerce, że bardzo ciężko jest zaczynać konkurowanie z tym behemotem e-handlu.

Być może Amazon stanie się firmą za pomocą której Amerykanie będą kupowali wszystko - od proszku do prania przez ubezpieczenia po pizzę na wynos. Być może plany stania się globalnym graczem dla wszystkich gospodarek pokrzyżuje mu któraś z chińskich firm ale dla nas, Polaków to marna pociecha (spadniemy z deszczu pod rynnę).

Co możemy robić? Obserwować co robi Jeff Bezos i wspierać swoje, lokalne e-sklepy. Lokalny patriotyzm naprawdę się nam opłaca.

Artur Kurasiński

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"Are you Sarah Connor?"

Researchers shut down AI that invented its own language — www.digitaljournal.com

An artificial intelligence system being developed at Facebook has created its own language. It developed a system of code words to make communication more efficient.

Amazon ma patent na kupowanie za pomocą AR

Augmented-reality shopping on your phone? Amazon could make it so — www.geekwire.com

It’s no secret that Amazon is interested in augmented reality as an e-commerce tool – and one possibility is explored in a newly published patent.

Pierwszy ludzi zarodek "poprawiony" genetycznie...

First Human Embryos Edited in U.S. — www.technologyreview.com

Researchers have demonstrated they can efficiently improve the DNA of human embryos.

Apple chyba jednak nie umie sprzedawać muzyki...

Spotify preps to go public with 60M subscribers, outpacing Apple | TechCrunch — techcrunch.com

Spotify's singular focus on music sees it adding subscribers faster than the iPhone company with a streaming app on the side. Spotify has added 20 million..

Slack vs Microsoft i co z tego wynika dla użytkowników

Dear Slack, Get over Microsoft. You have a bigger problem. — hackernoon.com

On November 2, 2016, Microsoft officially launched Microsoft Teams (a chat-based workspace Software as a Service) that ties into its existing Office 365 subscriptions. During the launch, Satya…

Jak przebiegała implozja SoundCloud'a

The Inside Story Of SoundCloud's Collapse — www.buzzfeed.com

SoundCloud was once a platform beloved by listeners and creators, whose leaders hoped to revolutionize the music industry. Hamstrung by management mistakes and fierce competition, they never did. Here

Facebook i Amazon w klubie najbogatszych firm

Facebook and Amazon hit $500 billion milestone — money.cnn.com

Facebook and Amazon have joined an exclusive club open to only the richest companies in the world.

Co się dzieje ze stroną MillionDollarHomepage.com?

MillionDollarHomepage.com — lil.law.harvard.edu

In 2005, British student Alex Tew had a million-dollar idea. He launched www.MillionDollarHomepage.com, a website that presented initial visitors with nothing but a 1000×1000 canvas of blank pixels.

Pożytki z czytania literatury SF

Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction — hbr.org

Reading about the future can help you invent it.

Twoja twarz będzie bilboardem reklamowym.3

Augmented reality startup Blippar hopes to turn your face into a digital billboard — www.theverge.com

The latest product from augmented reality startup Blippar has a simple, if somewhat unnerving, pitch: what if you could turn your face into a digital billboard?

The company’s new Halos feature...

Jak wygląda znikanie kasy z okupu w świecie bitcoina

Watch these bitcoin ransom payments get lost in the expanse of the blockchain — qz.com

The paradox of bitcoin is that it's both public and anonymous. Every bitcoin transaction that has ever occurred is recorded on the blockchain, the digital ledger that organizes the currency, which can be viewed by anyone. Determining who owns the bitcoins behind those transactions, however, can be impossible if the owners are careful. The hackers...

AR = B2B, VR = B2C?

AR to be key to business, as VR lands with consumers, says IDC — www.zdnet.com

IDC projected that AR and VR headsets will grow from just under 10 million units in 2016 to nearly 100 million units in 2021.

Teraz łatwiej jest stworzyć startup ale ciężko rozwijać

Startups are cheaper to build, but more expensive to grow - here's why at andrewchen — andrewchen.co

Startups should be getting cheaper to build. After all, the industry’s created several waves of innovation that’s supporting this across multiple layers in the stack:

TVN po raz kolejny ma nowego właściciela

Cable Tie-Up Unites Parents of HGTV and Animal Planet — www.wsj.com

Discovery Communications has agreed to buy Scripps Networks Interactive for $11.9 billion, a bet that a bigger footprint in lifestyle programming—like the kind seen on TLC, HGTV and Food Network—will help it weather the upheaval in cable television.

Kilka pomysłów na gry VR (jesli szukasz inspiracji)

Top 25 VR Arcade Games – springboardVR — medium.com

Of the 100+ VR Arcades currently utilizing & running the springboardVR arcade management platform worldwide, we compiled the data and created a list of the top 25 VR Arcade games––based on the total…

Lyft uczy się błędach Ubera i wychodzi na prowadzenie.

Uber's Biggest Competitor Lyft Could Take the Lead — fortune.com

Scandals at Uber have given Lyft a chance to catch up in the ride-sharing race. Could a bet on driverless cars help Lyft take the lead?

Świetny kwartał Facebooka. Przychody to 9.32 mld$

Facebook beats in Q2 with $9.32B revenue despite slower user growth — techcrunch.com

Facebook's hot streak continued with a strong Q2 2017 earnings report. It earned $9.32 billion and $1.32 in GAAP actual EPS, compared to estimates of $9.2..

Jak się bronić przed dronami? Kilka pomysłów

Anti-Drone Tools Tested: From Shotguns To Superdrones — www.wired.com

From anti-drone shotgun shells to a drone-snagging megadrone, security researchers put the drone defense arsenal to the test.

Problemów z kryptowalutami ciąg dalszy

BTC-e Shut down: Bitcoin Site Offline After $110M Fine

Law enforcement bit BTC-e with a one-two punch over a series of allegedly criminal acts by the site and its owner.

Ile tak naprawdę ludzi korzysta z Twittera codziennie?

How many people use Twitter every day? — www.recode.net

Twitter talks a lot about DAU growth but doesn’t break out any hard numbers, so we did our own estimate.

Problem z kopaniem kryptowalut? Wynajmij samolot.

AMD shares are soaring: Ethereum miners are renting Boeing 747s to ship graphics cards to mines — qz.com

Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) share price jumped after it beat revenue estimates thanks to cryptocurrency miners snapping up the firm's graphics cards.

Chińczycy mają plan na stworzenie super dzieci.

China Is Engineering Genius Babies — www.vice.com

It’s not exactly news that China is setting itself up as a new global superpower. While Western civilization chokes on its own gluttony like a latter-day Marlon Brando, China continues to buy up American debt and lock away the world’s natural resources...

Bezos. Najbogatszy człowiek na ziemi przez pół dnia.

Jeff Bezos was the richest person in the world, for half a day - MarketWatch — www.marketwatch.com

Jeff Bezos briefly passed Bill Gates in ranking of the world’s billionaires.

Case Study VR'owego projektu Powstania 44

How I Made ‘Witness’: a VR Experience of Warsaw Uprising — medium.cinematicvr.org

Witness is a virtual reality project I created as part of my master’s thesis in Computer Science from Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. It tells the story of an insurgent of Warsaw…

Jest! Najnowszy model Tesli (S)!

Tesla’s Model 3 Is Here, and It's Much More Than an Electric Car — www.wired.com

Model 3 delivery day went off without a hitch.

Dlaczego rozwój Tesli zmienia wszystko co wiemy?

The Tesla Model 3 Launches the Electric Vehicle Market — www.wired.com

The "affordable" electric car is officially released this week.

"VR'owe gralnie" - tylko to może uratować biznes VR?

Studios, Start-Ups Bet on Shared Location-Based VR Experiences — variety.com

Studios and start-ups are looking to lure audiences into shared, location-based VR experiences.

Jak Rosja i Ukraina walczą za pomocą social mediów?

Russia Ukraine Relations Ignite Epic Twitter Battle

Meet the millennials who started an epic flame war between Ukraine's and Russia's Twitter accounts.

Ależ to jest wspaniała historia (uprowadzenie tankowca)

The Hijacking of a $100 Million Supertanker — www.bloomberg.com

A mysterious assault. An unsolved murder. And a ship that hasn’t given up all its secrets.

Apple wyłącza VPN w niektórych appkach w Chinach...

Apple removes VPN apps from the App Store in China — techcrunch.com

The Chinese government's crackdown on the internet continues with the news that Apple has removed all major VPN apps, which help internet users overcome the..

VR + sex + roboty = smutna przyszłość ludzkości?

VR, sex robots, and smart sex toys are the future of the adult industry — www.news.com.au

THE latest generation of sex dolls are being touted as the most lifelike yet — able to listen and answer questions using sophisticated voice recognition software and move like a real person.

Optymalizacja podatkowa - granice legalności i zagrożenia — jakoszczedzacpieniadze.pl

Czym się różni normalna optymalizacja podatkowa od tej agresywnej? Jakie działania są uznawane za unikanie opodatkowania? Co jest nielegalne?