2018-12-29

Tech Review 2019: From Moon Missions To A Big Year In Tech IPOs

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Tech Review (TR 2018-12-29)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech investing news with commentary, analysis and opinion: Features • 1) 2019: The Year of Moon Missions, 2) Tech IPOs Poised for Another Big Year, 3) Investing: The Week, Investing Notes, 4) ICYMI Tech News: Amazon, Google, Netflix, Facebook, China's Tech Sector, 5G Hype vs 5G Reality.

1) 2019: The Year of Moon Missions, marijuana and mega-hub airports

From groundbreaking moon missions to growth in the legal-cannabis market, 2019 will be year of new highs. Here's what to watch out for in the year ahead. Economist.com video above published Dec 20, 2018.

2) Tech IPOs Poised for Another Big Year

For tech IPOs, 2018 was a year of big deals and a year of global deals. There were more billion dollar technology IPOs than ever before and activity was largely driven by non-U.S. companies. Learn more from the Goldman Sachs Investment Banking Division about what is driving activity and what we expect for the year ahead. Goldman Sachs video above published Dec 14, 2018.

3) Investing
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The Week: NASDAQ Composite +4.0% | S&P 500 Index +2.9% | DJIA +2.8%
The market's underlying new reality: roughly 85% of all trading is on autopilot--controlled by machines, models, or passive investing formulas, that move in unison and blazingly fast--wsj.com: The Herdlike Behavior of Computerized Trading.
 Nobody Has Any Clue How To Trade "Bewildering" Market--zerohedge.com
The Long View:
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Investing Notes:
A Look Back: Amazon's ad platform growing 'very rapidly' said WPP CEO a year ago

Fox Business video above published Jan 26, 2018: then WPP CEO Martin Sorrell's (retired in April, 2018) prescient outlook for the markets in 2018, the U.S. economy, President Trump’s presence at the World Economic Forum, and the future of advertising.
4) ICYMI Tech News:
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Like the Google search engine, Amazon's Alexa has the potential to become a dominant gateway to the internet, so the company is pressing ahead with Alexa, built upon AI and machine learning. “By controlling that gateway, you can build a super profitable business,” said Kartik Hosanagar, a Wharton professor studying the digital economy--reuters.com.

Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to--Google repeatedly pushes the web in a proprietary direction to improve its services on Chrome making Microsoft's adoption of Chromium a loss for the open web--arstechnica.com.

More than half of top 50 shows on Netflix, by one measure, are owned by others like Disney, NBCU, and WarnerMedia, which are planning rival streaming services--recode.net.

The rise of China’s tech sector: the digital great game--Many Chinese tech firms also relied in their early phases on funding by foreign investors, a blatant breach of Chinese law-- lowyinstitute.org.

Facebook's terrible year just got worse ... The social media giant is under fire for whether it does enough to safeguard user data--cnet.com.

2018 was the year of 5G hype. The 5G reality is yet to come--WashingtonPost.com.

Crypto efforts of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, and others are in limbo after bitcoin's months-long fall and weak demand from institutional clients--bloomberg.com Dec 22, 2018: Wall Street Quietly Shelves Its Bitcoin Dreams--Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and many more built it, but they didn’t come.

-- John Poole, Editor, Domain Mondo  

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