Helluu World again | JOMO for 1st Aug
In today’s JOMO: Usain’s Bolt slows down, TikTok ‘Music’, that Eternal feeling and we are back!
PS: We’ve been missing because, well as much as we dont want to admit it, work’s been crazy. Not sure if we can push JOMO out everyday, but we shall try. Expect atleast a weekly post or two: how’s that for starters?
🗞In the news
Bolt Mobility, the Miami-based micromobility startup co-founded by Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt, appears to have vanished without a trace from several of its U.S. markets.
A TikTok Music app could challenge Spotify and Apple - Verge
Considering how intertwined music discovery is with TikTok, it wouldn’t be all that surprising if the company launched a music streaming app of its own. Well, patent filings uncovered by Insider suggest TikTok’s working on just that. TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, filed a trademark application with the US Patent and Trademark Office for “TikTok Music” in May
Remember Resso anyone?
Zomato’s Deepinder Goyal plans multiple CEO structures for ‘Eternal’ organisation - ET
“The word Eternal is a mission statement in itself. Eternal means forever, something that will last for more than just a few lifetimes. Boundless, timeless, undying, endless, permanent - are some of the other words that can be used to describe Eternal,” he wrote in the message on July 28.
Gaaass, gyaan, distraction?
🤑🚀Startups, funding etc
UiPath acquires London-based NLP startup Reinfer - TC
Founded out of Romania initially as Deskover in 2005, UiPath is one of the preeminent RPA platforms, helping to automate repetitive software-based tasks at companies including Google, NASA, and DHL
🤔Interesting read
These Companies Know When You're Pregnant—And They're Not Keeping It Secret - Gizmodo
In total, Gizmodo identified 32 different brokers across the U.S. selling access to the unique mobile IDs from some 2.9 billion profiles of people pegged as “actively pregnant” or “shopping for maternity products.” Also on the market: data on 478 million customer profiles labeled “interested in pregnancy” or “intending to become pregnant.” You can see the full list of companies for yourself here.
Pichai said: “There are real concerns that our productivity as a whole is not where it needs to be for the head count we have.” He asked employees to help “create a culture that is more mission-focused, more focused on our products, more customer focused. We should think about how we can minimize distractions and really raise the bar on both product excellence and productivity.”
Not a bad time to think about productivity given that Alphabet’s workforce jumped 21% last quarter to 174,000 employees. And that is *only* the full time employees
The second wave of India’s crackdown on Chinese tech is here - Rest of World
In the last few months, at least three major Chinese smartphone makers have faced investigations from India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED), the agency responsible for enforcing economic laws. In April, the ED seized over $695 million from Xiaomi Technology India Private Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Beijing-based Xiaomi group. Earlier this month, the ED seized 119 bank accounts holding over $58 million of Vivo India, which is owned by China’s BBK Electronics. A few days later, the ED accused Vivo’s sister firm, Oppo, of $551 million in tax evasion.
Money, money, money, it’s so funny
😎Cool Products, websites and tools
Eight photo-centric social sites that are not Instagram - Verge
There are alternatives out there
Yes, but would you use them?
Read the news, discover podcasts and search the web - without clickbait, eye catchers, auto playing videos, paywalls, partisan echo-chambers, or whatever else digital marketers can come up with next.
Sounds like something we all need. Gonna take it for a spin and be back with a review
Build great docs websites, focus on your content - by Meta
‘by Meta’ - meh
📊Poll for the day
Would you use an Instagram alternative?
Sure
No, Insta rocks
I’m not on Insta
Curated from:
Morning Brew, Verge, Techcrunch, Techmeme, CNBC, Hacker News, Product Hunt and more