Fred’s Views – Issue 10
Fred’s Views
Issue 10
A weekly summary of what I’ve found interesting at the intersection of economics, finance and technology.
Short dispatches only this week due to a public holiday on Friday and Monday this weekend. Normal service resumes next week.
Short Dispatches
In the wake of the 1MDB scandal, Malaysia is turning out to be an unlikely pioneer in taking banks to task for their past behaviour. Read (BBC)
Another argument for regulating privacy through legislation and not anti-competition agencies… Read (Bloomberg)
Youngsters are making their Instagram profiles public in order to get more detailed analytics on their posts. Read (Bloomberg)
Cautiously optimistic about this—aggregating medical data to train ML algorithms with a differential privacy approach. Read (Wired)
A buzzy San Francisco startup has been secretly saving maybe millions of Instagram users’ stories and tracking their locations. Read (Business Insider)
LinkedIn’s corporate feel has made it free of controversy but also largely free of any intelligent or challenging content… Read (NYT)
Apple unwittingly doing more for financial inclusion than Facebook’s Libra… Read (CNBC)
Huawei announced a credible in-house OS, but mainly focused on IoT devices and hence not yet an Android replacement. Read (Engadget)
Parents who choose not to post photos of their kids on social media struggle when Facebook-happy older relatives break the rules. Read (Buzzfeed)
The debate around Italy’s mini-BOT’s informs the debate around cryptocurrencies and whether they can be considered money. Read (FT $)
Messaging app Kik is fighting the SEC over its initial coin offering. Read (FT $)
CFO’s who use humour on earnings get a more positive market reaction than those who don’t. Insert EMH joke here… Read (Columbia Law)
“What we’re about to see is a backlash against the second gilded era.” Read (FT $)
That’s it for this week’s edition. As always, thanks for reading and please forward this to anyone who you think might be interested, it would be much appreciated.