China’s Belt and Road has some questionable economic return potential. However, the Belt and Road is providing geopolitical returns. The Belt and Road has successful projects in Pakistan, Greece and some other countries. The projects are boosting the volume of trade with the countries in the Belt and Road. After the debate, there was a …
Verizon is launching 5G in Chicago and Minneapolis and then they will follow with 30 more US cities. The Verizon 5G will only be available in a few parts of those first cities. Service will start April 11, 2019. The 5G service will be $10 per month on top of a regular unlimited data plan. …
Xiaomi continues its domination of the India Smartphone market with 28.9% of the fourth quarter market share. Compared to 2017 Q4, they grew 28.6% in sales in 2018 Q4. The Xiaomi Redmi series phones and the opening of rural stores helped boost sales. Xiaomi’s Redmi 5A and Redmi Note 5/Pro series emerged as the fastest …
We have reported some on the many problems and bad behavior that have been revealed about Facebook. Facebook Propoganda and Bullying Facebook pushes negative stories about its competitors. This is quite clearly using the technique of Propaganda. There is a favored tactic of very bad historical governments. The Soviets or Joseph Goebbels were primary users …
A UK Parliamentary report on internal Facebook documents and found that Facebook was not satisfied with just your information and activity on the social media site and spied on everything you do on your phone. Facebook Used All of Their Power and Influence to Spy on Everything About Users, All User Phone Activity and Their …
New features have been added to Google Maps to help you take control of your daily commute— enabling you to plan ahead, prepare for the inevitable disruptions, and possibly avoid them altogether. People in North America spend a full day per month commuting—which almost adds up to a two-week vacation each year. Know before you …
China food delivery service Meituan Dianping had a $4.2 billion IPO. The company’s market cap reached about HK$400 billion (US$51 billion). Co-founder Wang Xing’s now has a net worth US$5.3 billion. Wang Xing’s vision for Meituan is to be an “Amazon for services” in China. Meituan Dianping offers more services than Yelp. Meituan passed the …
Asian-American population will reach 25.7 million by 2019. Asian-Americans will outnumber U.S. Hispanics by 2055 according to U.S. Census Bureau projections. There are about 22.3 million Asian Americans not including multi-racial. Population levels are increasing by 500,000-700,000 each year from high levels of immigration. The ethnic groups within Asian American in 2014 were Chinese-American 20% …
China has an algorithm-powered app called “Crazy for making babies” (aka Fengkuangzaoren). There are over 8 million users and 70,000 families successfully used it to help conceive over the past four years. The application provides an array of trackers such as basal body temperature, ovulation and menstruation to advise the best days to try to …
Tosblock or T.OS is a cryptocurrency which has several innovations which make it realistic and practical for use in commercial transactions. The key innovations are * TOSC coin is used for trading on exchanges, and another stable coin (TOSP) for payments to merchants. * TOSP is pegged to the currency the users reside in. * …
Samsung is going to mass produce 1 Terabyte, 2 Terabyte and 4 Terabyte SSD drives at prices that will cause a massive move to terabyte-SSDs by consumers. I am thinking the prices need to be about $80 for 1 Terabyte, $180 for 2 Terabytes and $400 for 4 Terabytes. Currently prices are about $220 for …