Summary: Facebook has three popular, and increasingly similar, messaging apps that all run different code. While Mark Zuckerberg plots to bring them together into a common platform to improve performance and simplify development, we suspect the real goal is more user data and better advertising models. Plus our Fast Five: - The first jack-less, port-less, butt-less phone from Vivo; - The FCC's strange case against Qualcomm; - Amazon's questionable Rekognition recognition issue; - Is Apple's answer to climate change an iPhone flashlight; and - IBM's financials are actually kinda impressive. Our Tech Bites Winner: Facebook encourages kids to spend mom & dad's money. What could go wrong with Facebook's "friendly fraud" strategy? Our Crystal Ball: Huawei claims it will soon be #1 in smartphone sales, but just how realistic is this in an environment mired in trade wars and corporate espionage? This episode features: Daniel Newman (@danielnewmanUV), Fred McClimans (@fredmcclimans), and Olivier Blanchard (@oablanchard). If you haven't already, please subscribe to our show on iTunes or SoundCloud. For inquiries or more information on the show you may email the team at info@futurumresearch.com or follow @FuturumXYZ on Twitter and feel free to direct inquires through that channel as well. To learn more about Future research please visit www.futurumresearch.com. Futurum Research is a research and analysis provider, not an investment advisor. The Futurum Tech Podcast is a newsletter/podcast intended for informational use only. Futurum Research does not provide personalized investment advice. No investment advice is offered nor implied by this podcast.
