“Amazon.com Inc. is considering a plan to open as many as 3,000 new AmazonGo cashierless stores in the next few years, according to people familiar with matter, an aggressive and costly expansion that would threaten convenience chains like 7-Eleven Inc., quick-service sandwich shops like Subway and Panera Bread, and mom-and-pop pizzerias and taco trucks”.
Source : Amazon Said to Plan Up to 3,000 Cashierless Stores by 2021 – Bloomberg
“The Facebook-WhatsApp pairing had been a head-scratcher from the start. Facebook has one of the world’s biggest advertising networks; Koum and Acton hated ads. Facebook’s added value for advertisers is how much it knows about its users; WhatsApp’s founders were pro-privacy zealots who felt their vaunted encryption had been integral to their nearly unprecedented global growth.
This dissonance frustrated Zuckerberg. Facebook, Acton says, had decided to pursue two ways of making money from WhatsApp. First, by showing targeted ads in WhatsApp’s new Status feature, which Acton felt broke a social compact with its users. “Targeted advertising is what makes me unhappy,” he says. His motto at WhatsApp had been “No ads, no games, no gimmicks”—a direct contrast with a parent company that derived 98% of its revenue from advertising. Another motto had been “Take the time to get it right,” a stark contrast to “Move fast and break things.”
“La protection des données personnelles est un enjeu majeur pour les citoyens de l’Union européenne. Face à l’accroissement des innovations technologiques depuis quinze ans, et au manque total de transparence dans le traitement de ces données par les Gafam (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft) – comme l’a récemment illustré le scandale de Cambridge Analytica –, le règlement général sur la protection des données (RGPD), entré en vigueur le 25 mai, apporte un progrès indéniable. Mais en bouleversant les rapports entre sous-traitants et donneurs d’ordre au sein de la chaîne de traitement de ces données, le RGPD risque bel et bien de nuire à la concurrence et, paradoxalement, de renforcer le pouvoir de marché des Gafam”.
Source : « Le RGPD risque de renforcer le pouvoir des Gafam »
“There are many thousands of data repositories on the web, providing access to millions of datasets; and local and national governments around the world publish their data as well. To enable easy access to this data, we launched Dataset Search, so that scientists, data journalists, data geeks, or anyone else can find the data required for their work and their stories, or simply to satisfy their intellectual curiosity“.
Source : Dataset Search
“The social-media giant has asked large U.S. banks to share detailed financial information about their customers, including card transactions and checking-account balances, as part of an effort to offer new services to users. Facebook increasingly wants to be a platform where people buy and sell goods and services, besides connecting with friends”.
Source : Facebook to Banks: Give Us Your Data, We’ll Give You Our Users – WSJ
“Google a également lancé un nouveau programme pour les distributeurs américains, promettant une meilleure visibilité et une expérience d’achat simplifiée en échange d’une commission sur les ventes – une première pour la société. Walmart, Costco, Target ou encore Home Depot font partie des premiers utilisateurs. Le moteur de recherche souhaite se préparer à l’essor attendu du commerce par la voix. Selon le cabinet de conseil OC&C, celui-ci pourrait se chiffrer à 40 milliards de dollars aux Etats-Unis et au Royaume-Uni d’ici à 2022, contre seulement 2 milliards en 2017”.
Source : Google investit dans le numéro deux chinois du commerce en ligne, JD.com
“Carrefour aura une longueur d’avance, mais le partenariat n’a pour autant pas vocation à être exclusif. « Nous commençons avec Carrefour, mais tous les commerçants peuvent nous contacter », souligne Sébastien Missoffe, qui refuse cependant de communiquer sur le modèle économique retenu tout comme la direction de Carrefour Les transactions seront réalisées par Google, affirme le géant de la tech. Mais les données – si précieuses pour mieux connaître les clients et personnaliser ses offres – seront partagées avec Carrefour, si le client décide de lier ses comptes Google et Carrefour. Les dirigeants du distributeur affirment de leur côté qu’ils resteront propriétaires des dites données…”
Back in 2015…
Today, the video giant is rolling out a new app, YouTube Music, that attempts to capitalize on its dominance in this space. The app is free, and you can use it in free, ad-supported mode, but it becomes a lot more powerful and interesting if you pay for a YouTube Red subscription.
Source : YouTube Music is here, and it’s a game changer | The Verge
“The Selfish Ledger positions Google as the solver of the world’s most intractable problems, fueled by a distressingly intimate degree of personal information from every user and an ease with guiding the behavior of entire populations. There’s nothing to suggest that this is anything more than a thought exercise inside Google, initiated by an influential executive. But it does provide an illuminating insight into the types of conversations going on within the company that is already the world’s most prolific personal data collector.”
Source : Google’s Selfish Ledger is an unsettling vision of Silicon Valley social engineering – The Verge
Facebook announced it’s getting into the dating space.
Match Group investors are freaking out. pic.twitter.com/1tXdPWRZYS
— Kurt Wagner (@KurtWagner8) 1 mai 2018
«Users who are single and interested in dating can set up a dating profile within their existing Facebook account. It won’t be visible to friends or family, or show up in News Feed, and will only appear for other people using the dating service».
Source : Facebook F8 2018: Facebook is launching a new dating service – Recode
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