Thoughts & Updates
Bitcoin – Eight Years Later
It's been eight years since Bitcoin was implemented as open source code and released in January 2009. Enthusiasts have long been hoping for a mainstream adoption of the crypto currency. It hasn't happened. Wall Street Journal has a video that offers some insights.
Dubai, The Leader of Transportation of the Future?
After announcing that it will debut world’s first passenger drones this summer, Dubai is considering adding a Hyperloop to Abu Dhabi and driverless cars. We can’t mention Hyperloop and not mention its visionary, Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, who launched their...
New Strategic Control Point: Data Centers
We talk about “cloud computing.” Where is the cloud? Data centers. Amazon is the largest player in this space. Microsoft and Alphabet are now catching up. The three companies spent a combined $31.54 billion in 2016, according Wall Street Journal. Investors don’t seem...
YouTube joins the “cut the cord” movement
YouTube’s live streaming TV services went live yesterday in five major US cities, according to a TechCrunch article. People in San Francisco, Los Angles, New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia will have the option to “cut the cord” for $35 a month. The service includes...
Ford is hiring 400 employees from BlackBerry to build up its connected vehicle program
This effort will double Ford’s current mobile-connectivity program.Just in February, Ford announced a $1 billion investment in Argo AI, a startup consisting of engineers from Uber’s and Alphabet’s autonomous vehicle programs. The connected vehicle battle is definitely...
The Race to Autonomous Driving
For those of you who thought that Google/Alphabet was going to take over the world with their self-driving cars and crowd-sourced live traffic app Waze, it turned out that the incumbent automakers were not going to take that lying down. At Paris Motor Show this week,...