Facebook is looking at integrating into more areas of your life. Integrating different aspects is something we have seen in apps like Tencent’s Weixin, or WeChat as we know it in the western world.
Facial recognition technology is rolling out fast. There is no more privacy, not even when you are in public. Everything you do is getting tracked.
Transmission medium problems.’ That’s the message you would have gotten on the screen if you were trying to stream the series finale for Game of Thrones (GoT)…in China. People couldn’t stream GoT on Tencent, who…
Starbucks is facing some growing competition in China. Luckin Coffee has been around for a little over a year and has gone from nine stores to a whopping 2,370 in that time frame. In comparison…
It’s clear that we need recessions as much as we need booms. Recessions are not all bad. They are a way for the system to cleanse itself.
Uber did debut on the New York Stock Exchange last Friday and it was one of the most expected IPOs of the year. There were massive expectations for it. But it didn’t do too well…
Airlines have been testing facial recognition programs since 2015.Now US homeland security is looking at rolling this out in more airports. The goal is to check 97% of passengers leaving the country in the next…
Uber and Lyft are two of the largest ridesharing companies in the world. But, what if there was another company looking at joining into their game? An unlikely competitor with a fleet of cars already…
According to Corelogic, housing debt makes up a total of 28.3% of total housing assets. All that debt means that, in December of last year, households spent a whopping 9.1% of their disposable income to…
phones have become even more popular in recent years. They have gone from one per household to one in everyone’s back pocket. And it has been a great success. The problem is, more phones mean more…
It’s hard to get excited about NBN after we have been hearing about it and waiting for it for so many years…and also, because 5G could be just around the corner.
You may be thinking that by choosing the top-rated experience you are making your travel experience unique. Seeing the most genuine spots and views of the place. In other words, that you are on the…
The best scenario is for the gold price to rise and the Aussie dollar to fall at the same time. Then gold investors can benefit from both, higher gold price AND the falling exchange rate.
High immigration and cheap debt have driven property prices up in recent years. Now supply may be catching up with demand, but our suspicion is that credit tightening is also playing a huge role in…
If a severe financial crisis hit, with interest rates at 1.50%, it wouldn’t leave the RBA — or most of the OECD central bankers — with much room to lower. They may have to go…