


Zuckerberg's 2018 Goal; Facebook's Theme; TentCraft's 70+ Videos; Super Bowl Lessons
"...insights for scaleups" HEADLINES: At the end of the day we viewed him as free consulting - painful, but free consulting. Indra Nooyi, the C.E.O. of PepsiCo, on how to deal with ... activist investors who want you to split up the company Fourth Quarter Comebacks -- my newly adopted team, the Eagles, managed to thwart the Patriots expected fourth-quarter comeback in the Super Bowl. Nevertheless, there are...



Google Play Store v8.9 Hints at Publicly Viewable Edit History in Reviews, Exchanging App Updates with Nearby Devices, and More
Google Play Store v8.9 is rolling out to Android devices, and on the surface, there aren’t any major changes. However, we did an APK teardown of the app and found quite a few strings related to new features which haven’t gone live yet, including new app review histories, a peer-to-peer app update sharing mechanism for devices, “split-install” modular APKs, and more. So without any further ado, let’s dive into it. An APK...
A transatlantic report highlighting the risks and opportunities associated with synthetic biology and bioengineering
I love e-Life, the open access journal where its editors noted that a submitted synthetic biology and bioengineering report was replete with US and UK experts (along with a European or two) but no expert input from other parts of the world. In response the authors added ‘transatlantic’ to the title. It was a good decision since it was too late to add any new experts if the authors planned to have their paper published in the...


Hulu Begins Rollout of 60fps Live Streaming for Select Channels on iPhone, Apple TV, and More
Hulu on Reddit this week announced that it will begin rolling out support for 60 frames per second live streams on its "Hulu With Live TV" cord-cutting service, launching in time for viewers to stream the...



A billionaire doctor just bought the LA Times for $500m. Who is he?
A billionaire doctor just bought the LA Times for $500m. Who is he? Yesterday, media conglomerate Tronc sold the Los Angeles Times (along with its “sibling paper,” The San Diego Union-Tribune) for $500m. The buyer, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, is the latest in a procession of billionaires who’ve snatched up large media companies in recent years — but you probably haven’t heard his name. Who dat? Soon-Shiong began his career as a...


How To Surprise Your Valentine with this Sweet Move on Google Home or Alexa and Spotify
I’m taking a break from our usual marketing blog post, cos this is cool (at least, I think so!) I wanted to do something creative for Valentine’s Day this year, something different than the usual flowers. My wife,...

When Will The Drones Finally Blot Out the Sun?—and other stuff people asked Google in January
We tell Google things we tell no one else — not our spouses, doctors, or shrinks.This is part of the reason why Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, author of Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can...

