Daily Precap - Wednesday 18th July 2018

 

Hey I’m Domm, it’s Wednesday 18th July 2018, and this is your daily precap of the latest and greatest technology, startups, and business news.

 

If you have annoying Instagram followers or stalkers you might be in luck, reports have been circulating of more and more users seeing a “Remove follower” button popup on their Instagram apps.

 

Booking.com parent company, is on a spending spree, I recently spoke about how they had bought up HotelsCombined, but now they have splashed $500M for a stake in Chinese Uber-competitor Didi Chuxing. (CHUSHING)

 

If you are bald, or have red hair, or curly, or white hair, then you are in luck and about to get representation in Apple’s new emoji pack.  Plus, not to mention our very own kangaroo emoji!

 

Amazon’s AWS cloud computing giant has announced a whole range of faster processors and higher memory instances.  But, still dont expect to be able to run a profitable Bitcoin mining operation in the cloud.

 

Google Assistant now wants to manage your whole day, not just tell you the weather, and it has released a visual representation of your day available on it OS and Android apps.

 

We don’t know what the hell is happening at Freelancer.com, because there has been no news, but for some reason their share price has grown by 25% in just the last 3 days.  

 

Listen up startups dreaming of international expansion, Afterpay, is expected to announce their US market update imminently, and perhaps even today.  

 

Afterpay took 25% of online Australian fashion transactions in just 4 years, but the US market represents an exponential leap in growth.  

 

This company is a role model for our startup scene who want to understand how a hugely commercial and massively successful startup grows.

 

If you are a founder, stop listening to some guy bleating the same old regurgitated catchphrase spiels like a broken record down at your weekly startup event, and go find someone in that company who can mentor you with first hand experience.

 

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That was your daily precap, I am Domm, thanks for listening.