Alan Williamson

Amazon buys Whole Foods $13.4B

By Alan Williamson on June 16, 2017

Okay so this caught most of the industry off their feet, with Amazon announcing they are getting into bricks’n’mortar business big time by buying a Whole Foods, the horrendously expensive supermarket.
Email still the king of social networks

By Alan Williamson on June 15, 2017

Around 40% of your emails are being tracked for marketing purposes.
FaunaDB – Pay-as-you-Store/Query database

By Alan Williamson on June 14, 2017

FaunaDB, from the technical team that led the Twitter database team, have come out and announced their offering of a new style of database aimed at the serverless model.
Those blue signs are cheaper than you think

By Alan Williamson on June 14, 2017

Not nearly as expensive as you would think to rent space on this most valuable of places on the highway.
Verizon * (Yahoo + AOL) = Oath

By Alan Williamson on June 13, 2017

Verizon has completed its long awaited purchase of Yahoo, for only $4.48B – cheap for what was one of the Internet’s cornerstone properties. Mayer, is out, but she can take some consolation with her $23M package.
Tesla to charge cars exclusively from the sun

By Alan Williamson on June 9, 2017

Elon Musk has thrown down the nay-sayers and stated that all supercharger stations will eventually be off-the-grid. Given their recent acquisition of Solar City this was always on the cards.