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Ep. 131: Ford’s Autonomous Food Delivery Experiment; Amazon Extends Its Reach by TEK2day

1.) Uber: rift at the Board level.

2.) Magic Leap: NBA deal. First product coming this spring.

3.) Tech's Four Horsemen and public schools/ AI: https://tek2day.com/2018/02/24/its-people-its-people/

4.) Tech CEOs: which Tech CEOs are the best value? https://tek2day.com/2018/02/25/squares-jack-dorsey-technologys-best-ceo-value/

An Uber IPO is a tough sell. What sustainable competitive advantage does the company have vs. Waymo and Cruise Automation? Uber is at a Balance Sheet disadvantage vs. its two larger competitors who have a lead in the autonomous space where it will be difficult to play catch-up.

a.) Waymo: https://waymo.com/

b.) Cruise Automation: https://getcruise.com/

c.) FT article: https://www.ft.com/content/a0f2af96-1117-11e8-940e-08320fc2a277

d.) Crowdsourcing article I authored: https://www.hrtechnologist.com/articles/recruitment-onboarding/crowdsourcing-levels-the-playing-field-for-prospective-job-seekers/

Our Top Tech CEO piece at TEK2day.com: https://tek2day.com/2018/02/18/top-tech-ceos-bezos-best-measured-total-stock-return/

TEK2day.com AMZN post: https://tek2day.com/2018/02/15/amazon-healthcare-trust-payments-and-price-discovery-amazongo-for-healthcare/

AmazonGo: https://youtu.be/NrmMk1Myrxc

Check out our latest post at TEK2day.com: https://tek2day.com/2018/02/09/technology-companies-led-by-founder-ceos-outperform-the-benchmark/

Apple HomePod may be the best sounding smart speaker, but it's AI lags the peer group. The bad news for Apple is that it will be significantly easier for competitors to improve speaker sound quality than it will be for Apple to improve the speed and accuracy of natural language search/ AI/ Siri.

Here's the Techcrunch review: https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/06/a-four-sentence-homepod-review-with-appendices/

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Media M&A. It's all going to happen very quickly once the bell rings. Everything from DIS & NFLX being acquired by some combination of the Tech Four Horsemen (AAPL, AMZN, FB, GOOG) to sports franchises being acquired outright by the same tech giants.

We wrote about this subject back in December at TEK2day.com: https://tek2day.com/2017/12/23/the-content-game-has-just-begun/

Also, visit CEORater.com to view CEO and Company profiles.

Learn more at TEK2day.com : https://tek2day.com/2018/02/04/meet-luminar-technologies-the-lidar-company-powering-toyotas-autonomous-vehicle-program/

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If you are NEA - why hire Jeff Immelt?

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