Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #36

The very best

It’s time to disrupt the disrupters

I've noticed lately what appears to be an emerging trend in marketing and communications leadership in some large companies. Specifically, the positions of chief marketing officer (CMO) and chief communications officer (CCO) are sometimes being consolidated into a single role, even in very large enterprises. Such consolidation has already happened at PG&E, Walgreens, and Citi,…

Super post by Philippe Gelis from Kantox

When Facebook and Google finally destroy the competition, a new age of feudalism will arrive

A new Morgan Stanley report poured cold water on some of the wilder claims about how and when distributed ledger technology will transform the financial...

Many think author inventor and data scientist Ray Kurzweil is a prophet for our digital age. A few say hes completely nuts. Kurzweil who heads a team of more than 40 as a...

A professor of cognitive science argues that the world is nothing like the one we experience through our senses.

Data and Society

Datafloq - Connecting Data and People

Hover Camera follows you by face recognition. Zero Zero Robotics says its camera drone may evolve into the eyes of a home robotics system

Zeitgeist

James Bessen - Innovative technology is displacing workers to new jobs rather than replacing them entirely

We are living in an era of bundling. The big five consumer tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microso…

Innovation

Don´t panic! 7 theories on digital transformation

A successful corporate incubator or accelerator depends upon three things: people, people, and people.  That’s what I learned by speaking with the heads of corporate incubators at 12 blue chip corporations in the past eight weeks.

The human vocabulary with millions of words is adequate to explain all of our expectations and experiences, even those which are imagined. Why not harness the

Future of work

The Purpose of Work

Our attention spans are now thought to be less than that of a goldfish (eight seconds)

Follow the Stripe blog for product announcements, feature updates, new countries, and technical posts about payments.

Only highly performing teams can win consistently. There is little slack and waste. Work is focused and extremely productive. Here is how.

Internet Culture

We didn’t get to see the optimism, economic boom, and American prowess of the 1990s. All we know is a world plagued by economic crashes, failed wars, and an obsession with terrorism.

Even before it was the title of a movie, the phrase “the social network” was synonymous with Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg’s startup snatched the title fro ...

Big Data News, Events, and Expert Opinion

FinTech

Author and fintech expert Haydn Shaughnessy highlights bi-lateral trade corridors China's opening with India and Africa.

In what is being called the largest private tech raise ever, Ant Financial, the Alibaba affiliate that operates the payments platform Alipay, has brought in

A lot has been written about the 'Uberization' of banking, says Sudhir Kesavan, who believes banking could have more to do with Tesla than Uber.

@rshevlin

Already there has been a huge amount invested in fintech in 2016, with investors funding close to $9 billion in January and February alone. It is a sector of..

As digital wallets increasingly become the origination point for consumer spending, they will become THE platform for downstream financial services --..

A pictorial summary of how FinTech is changing the financial services industry

This article contains an overview of FinTech investors in Europe.

Fintech is no longer a niche. The world’s largest banks are investing billions in financial technology as a way to prevent startups from taking market share.

Interesting post by Alex Batlin on the Intel way of creating consensus on distributed ledgers

Andy Kessler writes about the Uberization of banking: Mike Cagney, he fintech entrepreneur behind SoFi wants to move lending away from the big banks and onto your smartphone.

This article contains an overview of 11 blockchain APIs by companies leveraging distributed ledger technology in FinTech.

Large businesses (especially those in financial services) have been trying to figure out how they can tap into the blockchain, the technology underpinning the bitcoin cryptocurrency. They're intrigued by the possibilities of a transparent and cheap ledger system capable of creating an immutable record of transactions and monitoring sensitive data, like health records. But keeping that type of record...

Fintech is no longer a niche. The world’s largest banks are investing billions in financial technology as a way to prevent startups from taking market share.

MIT has moved its blockchain research from the blackboard to the real world through a partnership with distributed ledger tech startup Ripple. While MIT has long been involved in supporting the...

Financial technology ;— known more...

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Regulators and others question whether robo-advisers, which assemble investment portfolios online, can grasp clients’ situations the way humans can.

On yesterday's investor call, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was asked how the machine learning technology behind its recent introduction of bots to Messenger would manifest itself in the...

Some people think A.I. will kill us off. In his 2014 book Superintelligence, Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom offers several doomsday scenarios. One is ...

FlowingData

OpenAI wants to give away the 21st century's most transformative technology. In the process, it could remake the way people make tech.

Post Capitalism

Shareholder value is the root cause.

The Revolution will not be Centralized

Apple’s Q2 2016 ¶ The bullet points: ¶ 51.2 million iPhones. Not enough. ¶ 10.3 million iPads. Too few. ¶ 4 million …

When I started working on io9 in 2007, we didn’t have a name for the site yet. We hadn’t come up with any real plans for how we were going to cover science fiction, science and futurism. But there was already a central idea that the site was based around: That science fiction is for absolutely everybody who enjoys it.

Art related

One of the fundamental things in a medieval book is letters – those symbols that fill up page after page and that make up meaning. Each one of us human beings writes differently and considering that medieval books were made before the invention of print, it follows that the scripts they carry show a great variety in execution styles.…

Other

Bill Gates reviews the book “The Vital Question” by author Nick Lane