My blog posts
Podcast: what comes after the smartphone? Link
Industry news
Jack Dorsey, the new Twitter CEO, putting giving a third of his stock, worth $200m, into the employee option pool. Link
The New York Times will hand out well over a million Google Cardboard VR viewers. Link
Magic Leap, a high-profile but uncommunicative augmented reality company (a16z investment) posted a very impressive demo of what it could be like to use the product. Link
Blog posts
Memo to Buzzfeed staff from founder Jonah Peretti on their strategic aims and methods. Link
Intel and the mobile chip business. Link
Flipkart on the challenges of ecommerce in India. All mobile. Link
RISD course on mobile and computing (with a huge number of resources). Link
Notes from a preview of the iPad Pro. Link
Uber uses drivers' phones as a backup data centre. Link
Solar lanterns in emerging markets. Link
Statistics
Long and detailed presentation from Tencent on WeChat use and operating metrics. Link
Apple Music has 6.5m paying users and 8.3m in the trial. Compare to Spotify with 20m paying users (after much longer). Link
30% of Uber trips now take place in China. Link
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