How Restaurant Playlists Get Made — and Why So Many Sound the Same

An Eater X "Switched on Pop" investigation
Read more: https://www.eater.com/2019/7/30/20746328/every-restaurant-playlist-spotify-switched-on-pop?source=Snapzu

Injecting yourself with dog insulin? Just a normal day in America.

The media invites us to be inspired by wholly unnecessary crises like UFC hopeful Jordan Williams, who uses dog insulin because he doesn’t have insurance
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/01/us-healthcare-insulin-diabetes-jordan-williams?source=Snapzu

Google parent Alphabet overtakes Apple to become world's most cash-rich company

Google parent Alphabet became the most cash-rich company in the world during 2019's second quarter, taking Apple's long-held crown, according to the Financial Times. Alphabet apparently has $117 billion in cash, while Apple has $102 billion.
Read more: https://www.cnet.com/news/google-parent-alphabet-overtakes-apple-to-become-worlds-most-cash-rich-company/?source=Snapzu

Samsung Pay Touch app turns your Galaxy smartphone into a PoS terminal

Samsung has quietly launched the Samsung Pay Touch app to target small businesses in Canada. The app transforms compatible Galaxy smartphones into PoS (Point-of-Sale) terminals that can accept contactless payments from customers. So far, Samsung Pay has been limited to customers making payments through their Galaxy smartphones and wearables, but with this solution, the Korean company is taking it to the merchant side of things as well.
Read more: https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-pay-touch-app-galaxy-smartphone-pos-terminal/?source=Snapzu

How Phones Made the World Your Office, Like It or Not

Misplacing your car keys is worrisome, but it’s nothing like the free-fall panic of losing your phone. Hollywood could make a horror movie about somebody just looking for their iPhone XR and going slowly insane. The telephone began to pervade our lives at the end of the 19th century, and then — as you can see in these photos from The New York Times’s archives — it became our lives. Cellphones were a significant inflection point.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/business/how-phones-made-the-world-your-office-like-it-or-not.html?source=Snapzu

Scaling The Heights: Digital Platforms And The Marketplace Of The Future

The average business needs to understand how platform-based business models work and apply them to how they create value.
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/deloitte/2019/05/29/scaling-the-heights-digital-platforms-and-the-marketplace-of-the-future/#704dec392300?source=Snapzu

Nokia smartphone sales rebound with 4.8 million units shipped in Q2 2019

Counterpoint Research posted their new quarterly report about the state of the smarpthone market worldwide. In the second quarter of 2019, the smartphone market saw a slight decline of 1.2%, with 360 million phones being shipped globally.
Read more: https://nokiamob.net/2019/07/31/nokia-smartphone-sales-rebound-with-4-8-million-units-shipped-in-q2-2019/?source=Snapzu