Weekly readings – 20th July 2019

Father Doesn’t Know Best: The Unlikely Rise Of Turkey’s E-Commerce Queen. I didn’t know about her or her companies before. A great article.

The Challenges of Operating a Computing Cloud and Charging for its Use

Hit by Big Loss, Bird Seeks $300M in New Funds. Though Bird’s executives are willing to sacrifice growth for profitability, it remains to be seen if it can even do that. Scooter or micro-mobility area is highly competitive

Estonia’s new e-residency security focus: ‘You can’t launder money with a digital ID’. Though they scaled back their original target, the program looks successful to me and there are plenty of lessons that other countries, especially the US, can learn from it

What you need to know about Meiya Pico, China’s low-profile forensics champion named in data privacy scandal

Amazon sells over 175M items during Prime Day 2019, more than Black Friday & Cyber Monday combined.

The reports of Snapchat’s death have been greatly exaggerated

China Internet Report

Ericsson Mobility Report June 2019

Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Future’. I wrote about my conservation on self-driving cars before. If you don’t think this nobody (indeed I am nobody and happy to be one) doesn’t have credibility, read that.

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