Shutterstock use of AR

Neat use of Shutterstock and AR.

- https://mobilemarketingmagazine.com/shutterstock-customer-app-view-in-room-augmented-reality-ar

RIP Amazon HQ2-NYC

Going to be interesting to see any of those people protesting generate $27B in taxation revenue from their corporations/startups........


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/opinion/amazon-new-york.html?

Seriously expensive "cable tv bills"

Am I the only person who missed the fact that when Netflix paid $100m to stream re-runs of Friends that it actually opnly extended the contract a little over a year?? Seriously WTF?

Time to short $NFLX

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/dont-expect-warnermedia-to-share-friends-or-other-hit-shows-with-netflix-exec-says-2019-02-11

IOT Hot Tub

Buying a hot tub for Christmas? ....is it connected to the internet?


- https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/hackers-in-hot-water-pwning-smart-hot-tubs-yes-really/

Tesla AR patent

How the heck can Tesla secure a patent for what amounts to a “right mouse click” for context in AR
https://next.reality.news/news/tesla-files-patent-for-ar-manufacturing-tool-elon-musk-talks-factory-innovation-weed-sec-fine-60-minutes-0191217/

Talks about obvious…… (admittedly I think its ridiculous any article can be written about patents without quoting the patent number being referred to…..but I know they don’t teach good journalism in schools anymore…).

Unicorns in 2018

I looked at this graphic and thought…..how is Soundhound a unicorn??? As a long time user I cant even understand their business model.

More at

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-16/startup-bubble-derivative-stock-market-bubble

ICO article in the SMH

The problem with articles like this is it doesn’t actually make it any clearer on what the laws are around ICO’s in Australia…..or what makes a successful ICO (or clearly define that they are all shams….if that’s actually the case).

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/michael-clarke-s-coin-toss-falls-foul-of-asic-20181106-p50e9v.html? 

How are regular punters supposed to know when the MSM finance experts cant actually clear it up.

Thoughts?