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Stats Q3 2021
Author: Pirque
Last edited: 16 Jan 2022
| Date Published | Title | Rating | Type | Author | Quick Synopsis | Link | |
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| 2021-09-01 | Blue skies for Amazon Air | Report | Joseph P. Schwieterman,Borja Gonzalez Morgado,Mitchel Hirst,Abby Mader,Steve Rudolph | This fully owned subsidiary of retail giant Amazon made notable moves during spring and summer 2021 that close gaps in its network, give it a Canadian presence, and set into motion the development of major hubs. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1777cIMWs9Rzf3nPbqHS0QFSffMP3zVUj/view | ||
| 2021-04-30 | Bitcoin is Key to an Abundant, Clean Energy Future | Report | Square,Ark | In this memo, we aim to explain how the Bitcoin network functions as a unique energy buyer that could enable society to deploy substantially more solar and wind generation capacity. This deployment, along with energy storage, aims to facilitate the transition to a cleaner and more resilient electricity grid. We believe that the energy asset owners of today can become the essential bitcoin miners of tomorrow. | https://assets.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/5mRjc9X5LTXFFihIlTt7QK/e7bcba47217b60423a01a357e036105e/BCEI_White_Paper.pdf | ||
| 2021-07-03 | Culture Wars are Long Wars | Article | The Scholar's stage | American conservatives never waged a culture war. Conservatives certainly fought, there is no denying that. They fought with every bit of obstruction and scandal their operatives could muster. But this was not a culture war. Rather, America’s conservatives fought a political war over culture. Republicans used cultural issues to gain—or to try to gain—political power. | https://scholars-stage.org/culture-wars-are-long-wars/ | ||
| 2021-09-20 | Tech-tonic Shifts: Technology Is Reshaping the Global Economy | Article | Matthew Crupi,Chris Johnson,David Crawford | Most of the largest creators of value in recent years, regardless of sector, have one thing in common: technology is critical to their business. | https://www.bain.com/insights/technology-reshaping-global-economy-tech-report-2021 | ||
| 2021-08-31 | Pegasus Spyware: How It Works and What It Collects | Article | Kim Zetter | An NSO document leaked to the internet reveals how the Pegasus spyware - sold to intelligence and law enforcement agencies around the world - can be used to spy on targeted mobile phones. | https://zetter.substack.com/p/pegasus-spyware-how-it-works-and | ||
| 2021-09-22 | Latin America Digital Transformation Report 2021 | Report | Atlantico | We are transforming atoms into bits. Books are replaced by pixels, coins disappear into wires, sculptures melt to tokens. As the world goes digital, what was once costly and scarce can now be free and abundant. Latin America's rapid digitalization, further accelerated by the pandemic, has ushered in profound changes to the region's society and economy. | https://www.atlantico.vc/latin-america-digital-transformation-report | ||
| 2021-09-15 | FTC Staff Presents Report on Nearly a Decade of Unreported Acquisitions by the Biggest Technology Companies | Report | At an open Commission meeting today, the Federal Trade Commission staff presented findings from its inquiry into past acquisitions by the largest technology platforms’ that did not require reporting to antitrust authorities at the FTC and the Department of Justice. | https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/09/ftc-report-on-unreported-acquisitions-by-biggest-tech-companies | |||
| 2021-09-30 | Technology Report | Report | Bain | Although Covid-19 remains a global threat, we’re in a period of extraordinary economic growth. Government stimulus programs and a pent-up desire to “get back to the office” have piqued expectations of growth and innovation. The technology sector has led the way with strong equity values. | https://www.bain.com/globalassets/noindex/2021/bain_report_technology-report-2021.pdf | ||
| 2021-04-30 | A year of disruption in the private markets | Report | McKinsey | After record activity in 2019, private markets fundraising in 2020 declined on an annual basis across most asset classes and regions, reflecting the impact of COVID-19. North America and Europe saw their first drop since 2014, while Asian fundraising declined for the third straight year. | https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/industries/private%20equity%20and%20principal%20investors/our%20insights/mckinseys%20private%20markets%20annual%20review/2021/mckinsey-global-private-markets-review-2021-v3.pdf | ||
| 2021-08-31 | Mainframes, ML and digital transformation | Article | Benedict Evans | 'Digital transformation’ sounds like a parody of meaningless tech marketing, but actually captures some pretty interesting and important shifts in big company tech. It’s not as exciting as crypto or AR, and it takes a decade or two, but it’s just as big as smartphones. | https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/8/31/mainframes-machine-learning-and-digital-transformation | ||
| 2021-05-27 | The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox | Article | Sarah Wang,Martin Casado | There is no doubt that the cloud is one of the most significant platform shifts in the history of computing. Not only has cloud already impacted hundreds of billions of dollars of IT spend, it’s still in early innings and growing rapidly on a base of over $100B of annual public cloud spend. | https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap-cloud-lifecycle-scale-growth-repatriation-optimization/ | ||
| 2021-08-19 | Electric Cars: The Battery Challenge | Article | Davide Castelvecchi | The age of the electric car is upon us. Earlier this year, the US automobile giant General Motors announced that it aims to stop selling petrol-powered and diesel models by 2035. Audi, based in Germany, plans to stop producing such vehicles by 2033. Many other automotive multinationals have issued similar road maps. Highlights: -In the coming decades, hundreds of millions of vehicles will hit the roads, carrying massive batteries inside them. And each of those batteries will contain tons of kilograms of materials that have yet to be mined. -Because it is still less expensive, in most instances, to mine metals than to recycle them, a key goal is to develop processes to recover valuable metals cheaply enough to compete with freshly mined ones. -Electric cars which are still more expensive than conventional ones - should reach price parity by the mid-2020s. -Other labs around the world are working on cobalt-free batteries: in particular, the pioneering EV maker Tesla. -Unlike conventional cathode materials, disordered rock salts do not require cobalt or nickel to remain stable during the process. In particular, they can be made with manganese, which is cheap and plentiful,... -The vas majority of lithium-ion batteries are produced in China, Japan and South Korea... -Some North American start up firms say they can already recover the majority of a batterie's metals, including lithium, at costs that are competitive with those of mining them... -"Over 98% of lead-acid batteries are recovered and recycled"... -...the battery pack (20yrs lifecycle) will outlive the vehicle it was built into. | https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-021-02222-1/d41586-021-02222-1.pdf | ||
| 2021-08-18 | Organizing the World's Ambition | Article | David Booth | A few weeks ago we released the On Deck Series A Investor Memorandum to the public. Written ahead of our January 2021 fundraise, the memo laid out our vision for On Deck as "Stanford for the internet”— a “modern education institution” and digital campus where top technology talent and ambitious builders go to start or join a company, develop new skills, build relationships, and accelerate their careers. | https://beondeck.com/post/organizing-the-worlds-ambition |