Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy

by Parth Detroja

they can autocorrect text on your phone, catch spam emails, translate languages, or read your handwriting, among many other things.[1396]

let’s turn to an even stronger variation of neural networks.

Generative adversarial networks

“generative adversarial network,” or GAN,

As an example, imagine you want to make a generative adversarial network that creates a fake video of an American CEO giving a speech.

You create the generator and discriminator network.

Oculus Rift,

Zuckerberg explained a future where you could use VR to experience sports games, university lectures, appointments with doctors, and adventures with friends, all from the comfort of your home.[1409]

Facebook is optimistic that VR headsets will one day be as slim as Ray-Bans.[1411]

Facebook’s strategy has long been to maximize the time people spend on its platforms;[1412]

Facebook could start sliding in engaging new forms of advertising: product placement, game-like ads, or immersive ads for concerts, to name a few ideas.[1414]

In 2018, Amazon acquired the drug distribution startup PillPack,

One thing to worry Google is that Amazon has become many shoppers’ preferred search engine; more than half of product searches start on Amazon.[1424] This means many companies are starting to move ad dollars toward Amazon because that’s where their consumers are.

video game live streaming service Twitch in 2014.[1426]

in 2019, Facebook started officially listing Amazon as a competitor in its annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).[1429]

Ads, social media, hardware, and cloud — Azure

hits them all,

So it wasn’t all that surprising when Amazon aggressively entered the grocery market by buying Whole Foods in 2017

PillPack

Amazon has also started a line of home health products,[1441] explored kits to let consumers run health tests at home,[1442] and filed a patent for Alexa to notice colds or coughs.[1443] Put this together and you can envision a future where Alexa notices you’re sick, Amazon mails you a health test kit, you send it back, a virtual doctor prescribes medication, and PillPack mails you the pills.[1444]

Overall, this logistics network is second to none.[1450]

with each additional market it enters and each additional product it launches, Amazon gains even more data, which it can use to further fuel its growth.[1456]

People have started protesting against Amazon’s ability to bend companies and governments to its will,[1457]

monopolistic tendencies. The problem is that US antitrust laws are primarily designed to prevent horizontal mergers, or when head-to-head competitors try to merge — like when the US blocked the ISP giants Comcast and Time Warner Cable from merging in 2015.[1463]

understanding of the what and the why behind technology.

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