Our Retail Reimagined podcast team talked connected fitness this week. Here are the highlights.
The rise of cybersecurity threats is changing the behaviors of both consumers and companies.
Google’s expanding cloud: Weeks after announcing its Latin America expansion, Google Cloud set its sights on Thailand, Malaysia, and New Zealand. Cloud providers are racing for coverage in the APAC region.
The great disconnection: Google is imploring Apple to enable cross-platform messaging between iPhones and Android devices. But the blue bubble is the crown jewel of its walled garden.
For the love of bots: Economic uncertainty and continued supply chain angst aren’t stopping the robotics sector from making science fiction a reality. With bots permeating society, ethics battles will follow.
An EV pricing debacle: Rising prices for EVs like Ford’s F-150 Lighting run afoul of proposed US tax credit requirements. Premature pressure for domestic EV battery sourcing could make inflation worse.
Self-scanning stores are about to get a lot more common: 7-Eleven, Dollar General, and Best Buy are among the US merchants that are bullish on self-checkout services.
CHIPS and Science Act a boon for US manufacturing: President Biden signs the bipartisan bill, and chipmakers like Intel, Micron, Qualcomm, and GlobalFoundries are on board with expanding their US chip fabrication.
‘Google Search outage’ was its own query: The search stalwart’s downtime left users scrambling for answers, with some pointing to a data center explosion. Data vulnerabilities are escalating.
Cloud waste is ubiquitous: A majority of cloud business users are wasting money. Trouble awaits as Big Tech’s cloud earnings pacify Wall Street while cloud users look for alternatives.
Retailers need to ensure their ecommerce sites are accessible: Taking some simple steps can position merchants to better serve disabled Americans.
EV credits or EV crisis? The Inflation Reduction Act moves forward, but automakers think its requirements are bad for the industry. Without robust domestic battery manufacturing, EV adoption could falter.
Amazon’s Roomba acquisition is a data privacy nightmare: Regulators are worried that Amazon, which already has eyes and ears in consumers’ homes, will now be able to map and monitor those homes.
What keeps Meta up at midnight: The planet is rotating faster, messing with atomic clocks, but tech is against using leap seconds to fix it. A technical analysis could help.
Samsung’s smartwatch opportunity: The growing demand for smartwatches and lack of an Android alternative to Apple Watch could help Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 5 capture market share.
CHIPS Act draws a line in the sand: The $52 billion CHIPS Act will go a long way to help chipmakers fire up chip fabs in the US, with the proviso that they avoid chipmaking in China for 10 years.
Nike wants Big Tech’s layoffs: In a shift to direct sales, Nike is spending big to lure technologists. It’s a trend that could diminish the tech sector’s pull on workers.
Criteo could face big fine under EU privacy regulation: Dispute involves use of consumer data and serves as warning for ad tech firms.
EV segment shakeup: Economic uncertainty and inflation have resulted in job cuts across the EV sector, which could slow down bigger players and cripple startups that were beginning to ramp up production.