AAA Minds | business

2020

SpaceX Starlink speeds revealed as beta users get downloads of 11 to 60Mbps

Sep 25

Stripe Issuing is now open to all US businesses

May 6

2019

Uber Became Big By Ignoring Laws (and it Plans to Keep Doing That)

Sep 14

New ways to make vertical farming stack up

Sep 8

How China Is Cashing in on Group Chats

Sep 8

Insiders say an ambitious MIT Media Lab project is mostly smoke and mirrors

Sep 8

Building Lyft’s Marketing Automation Platform

Jun 28

Facebook has found a place to park its $40bn+ cash reserves

Jun 28

AQR’s Problem With Machine Learning: Cats Morph Into Dogs

Jun 12

Uber’s Path of Destruction

Jun 2

The Right Way to Get Your First 1,000 Customers

May 19

Introducing AresDB: Uber’s GPU-Powered Open Source, Real-time Analytics Engine

Feb 2

The math’s not pretty on digital advertising’s future revenues?

Jan 27

2018

Scaling Cash Payments in Uber Eats

Dec 15

There Were 1 Billion Monarch Butterflies. Now There Are 93 Million.

Oct 1

The Fed stalls the creation of a bank with a novel business model

Sep 22

eBay Moves Away From OpenStack, Embraces Kubernetes and Docker

Sep 20

Multi-Cloud Is a Trap

Sep 18

SpaceX reveals mystery moon passenger, and he’s a billionaire

Sep 18

EU approves controversial Copyright Directive, including internet ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’

Sep 12

India Pushes Back Against Tech ‘Colonization’ by Internet Giants

Sep 5

EPA is allowing asbestos back into manufacturing

Aug 8

3M knew your non-stick pan was poisoning you in the ’70s

Aug 7

3M knew your non-stick pan was poisoning you in the ’70s

Aug 7

Feeling the Heat of High-Frequency Trading

Aug 7

Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain

Jun 13

Nearly 80% of Japan’s Airbnbs removed in response to new home-share law

Jun 8

Microsoft is now worth more than Alphabet

Jun 2

Chicago Times and LA Times Block EU Users

May 25

MIT’s Interesting Proposal for a More Stable Financial System

May 25

Why China’s Payment Apps Give U.S. Bankers Nightmares

May 23

Google sued for ‘clandestine tracking’ of UK iPhone users’ browsing data

May 22

The Pentagon Can’t Account for $21T

May 22

Google Removes ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Clause from Its Code of Conduct

May 21

Making Radio Chips for Hell

May 21

NASA asks for Europa lander science experiments—and that’s a big deal

May 21

If you’re rich, you’re more lucky than smart. And there’s math to prove it

May 17

FDA to start naming names of pharma companies blocking cheaper generics

May 17

Fast fashion: for an e-commerce model in China, 150 outfits in 13 hours is a day’s work

May 15

Forget carbon fiber—we can now make carbon nanotube fibers

May 15

Think organic food is better for you, animals, and the planet? Think again

May 14

The spectacular power of Big Lens

May 14

Apple made more profit in three months than Amazon has generated in its lifetime

May 12

On Cumulative Advantage and How to Think About Luck

May 12

Emails Show FDA Chemists Have Been Finding Glyphosate in Food

May 12

Apple will reportedly launch a credit card with Goldman Sachs

May 10

Shortwave Trading: The West Chicago Tower Mystery

May 9

51 Examples of Growth Hacking Strategies and Techniques

May 8

Impress the Algorithm. Get $250,000

May 6

Debtors in China Shamed on Highway Billboard Featuring Their Faces and Names

May 6

Airbnb Is Screwing Over New York’s Vulnerable Neighborhoods

May 4

The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code

May 4

Australia Is Deploying 150 Solar Devices That Suck Water From Thin Air

Apr 30

Switzerland: First country to have national referendum about Sovereign Money

Apr 30

Bulldoze the business school

Apr 29

Over 90% of Facebook’s advertising revenue now comes from mobile

Apr 26

Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires

Apr 25

TSB Bank: Botched upgrade has left customers unable to access their accounts

Apr 24

Data Science and the Art of Producing Entertainment at Netflix

Apr 23

The Quest for the Next Billion-Dollar Color

Apr 19

Curing disease not a “sustainable business model,” Goldman Sachs analysts say

Apr 13

Japan team maps ‘semi-infinite’ trove of rare earth elements

Apr 12

Amazon spent close to $23B on R&D in 2017, outpacing fellow tech giants

Apr 11

Here’s how it’s possible to make perfect diamonds in a microwave

Apr 10

ACE Submarine Cable Cut Impacts Ten Countries

Apr 10

Introducing Stripe Billing

Apr 5

How warehouses for personal junk became a $38B industry

Mar 31

How Shyp Sunk: The Rise and Fall of an On-Demand Startup

Mar 31

Lax regulation made it cheaper for China to outsource pork production to the US

Mar 27

Ford recalls 1.3 million cars for steering wheels that might fall off

Mar 16

The German entrepreneurs celebrating their mistakes

Mar 16

We Need Breakthrough Business Models, Not Breakthrough Technology

Mar 9

Microsoft to offer governments local version of Azure cloud service

Mar 6

A Framework for Building Artificial Intelligence Capabilities

Mar 6