Mood
Advertisers are buying your mood based data, not that we should be surprised. Spotify pursues emotional surveillance for global profit
Frictionless
How do you know when you are paying for something using Stripe? Something like the above, simplicity. I enter my card number, expiry date & CVC code, click once and payment is done, pretty frictionless. Making online purchases ‘frictonless’ is a big deal. Look at Amazon, they already have all your details so you can…
Unbanked opportunity
“With Citibank as a guide, Digital Wallets could generate tens of billion dollars in market cap by offering basic checking account services profitably to the unbanked.” “Enabled by low customer acquisition costs, Digital Wallets should be able to serve the unbanked. With 15 million monthly active users Square’s (SQ) Cash App already is leading the…
JeanTech
https://www.investors.com/news/fashion-industry-refresh-jeans-athleisure-upend-clothing-stocks/
Our world in data
Research and interactive data visualizations to understand the world’s largest problems. https://ourworldindata.org
Beyond the chicken
Beyond Meat $BYND released their first earnings report yesterday, today pre market they are trading at $125 (+25.63%). ” Wall Street expected the company — which makes plant-based burgers and sausages that try to match the taste and texture of the real thing — to report a loss of 14 cents per share on revenue…
We’re in the money
I got reminded about this yesterday, this is Sainsbury’s boss Mike Coupe waiting to be interviewed on live television about the proposed Asda Sainsbury’s £10bn merger. Last month the proposal got put on ice for at least 10 years by regulators putting pressure on Mr Coupe’s role as Chief Exec.
Sharepoint dates and Javascript
If you’ve ever worked with JS and Sharepoint date fields you will know the problem, if you haven’t I’l try and save you some time. Javascript typically see’s how Sharepoint stores its dates as invalid, and reformatting the date in JS to some usable format tends to require too many lines of code and various…
Rat poison
Thats one of the many lines Buffett has used to describe cryptocurrency in the past, it will be interesting if & how his view changes after this years annual charity dinner with Justin Sun (Tron ICO & CEO of BitTorrent) & seven other crypto experts.
PeteStilgoe.com 