Money is Changing

By Keith Teare • Issue #271 • Content from David Marcus, Cory Doctorow, Edward Snowden and more

Money is changing. Machine Learning is broken. China is winning foreign investment. Apple is becoming a spy and venture capital is exploding in all directions. Another That Was The week.

Contents

• Money is Changing
• Cory Doctorow on Machine Learning with bad data
• China is Winning the Foreign Investment War
• Edward Snowden on Apple as a Spy
• Youtube and Regulation
• Venture Trends
• Our Shrinking Planet
• Startup of the Week
• Tweet of the Week

Editorial

David Marcus heads up Facebook’s journey into digital wallets, stable coins, and payments infrastructure. The journey so far has taken him far from his starting point, but he has not lost his taste for a big vision that in my opinion would represent a net plus for most of us on the planet.

Having initially made the error of too closely aligning Facebook with the Libra Project and so alerting many national governments to the threat posed by a 2.85 billion-member super-organization with its own currency and global payments infrastructure, free…