TenThingsFriday: Recent Episodes

Nathan Hollis

TenThingsFriday is ten things you need to know about Australian Retail, Technology and the Future. Hosted by Dimitrios and Nathan.

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  1. Bioresorbable Pacemakers

  2. Apple Pay Later

  3. Never going back to the office

  4. Facebook Pay

  5. Robots as a Platform

  6. Big W Marketplace

  7. Ethical AI

  8. Github Copilot Update

  9. Missing chips

  10. TikTok Resumes

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  1. Robomarts

  2. Kaseya Hack

  3. Trigo

  4. Ransomware as a service

  5. Demographics and Robots

  6. No shot, no service

  7. Google Food Search

  8. Github Copilot

  9. No Code

  10. Shopify Unite

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  1. Drones as a service

  2. Shop Pay on Facebook and Google

  3. The Demise of Jack Ma

  4. The Rise of Stripe

  5. Nuro last mile

  6. Apple Drivers Licenses

  7. Harden joins board of Saks

  8. Hybrid working and the future of work

  9. Amazon Go goes full size

  10. New MS 365 features for hybrid working

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  1. Robochefs and Biryani

  2. WWDC and Weather Apps

  3. Sotheby’s NFT Auctions

  4. Bluethumb

  5. Qantas trains pilots for cloud

  6. Antivaxxers and online reviews

  7. NBN update

  8. DigitalMint and the last mile of ransomware

  9. Unattended high street stores

  10. Paypal credit cards

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  1. The need for speed

  2. Dashpass

  3. Wpay

  4. Local tech talent market

  5. VR Final Four

  6. Tesla Restaurants

  7. Prime day is whenever Amazon says it is

  8. Shein surpasses Amazon

  9. Digital Vaccine Passports

  10. Synthetic Botnets

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  1. Bezos vs Musk Starlink gets 500K preorders

  2. Google Shopify partnership

  3. Instacart plans to expand globally Instacart launches 30 minute delivery service 10 minute grocery delivery coming to US

  4. Shopify Payments

  5. Sailing Robots

  6. CBA Retail Ecosystem

  7. SHEIN : The TikTok of Ecommerce

  8. COVID Lotteries

  9. Kroger launches $5m giveway for vaccinations

  10. DTA shaves $40K a month from COVIDSafe

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  1. Miller Candles

  2. CryptoChips

  3. Tinder Lyfts

  4. Chief TikTok Officer

  5. COVIDSafe the gift that keeps on giving

  6. Instacart update

  7. Lifestyle

  8. Amazon Go is a dead end

  9. Nike using DTC to expand its empire

  10. Amazon Biometric Consent

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  1. Coles shows off its forecasting engine WW shows off its tech platforms

  2. WW Scan & Go

  3. 80 Acres Farms

  4. WW abandons cashless

  5. Direct to Consumer

  6. Volvo to go all Electric by 2030 and only online

  7. Roadside assistance for EV

  8. Amazon Round the Grounds

  9. Four day week

  10. The $69m JPG NFT

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  1. Govt funded cyber?

  2. Suppliers funding retailer omnichannel investments

  3. NBN wants a comparison with 5G

  4. IGA partnership with Doordash

  5. Vic Govt resorting to Covid Robots in Hotels

  6. NBA Top shots and NFTS

  7. AI Ethics

  8. 9 10 Big Tech vs ACCC vs Rupert

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  1. The pandemic one year on for the grocers

What shoppers want from their apps

Coles launches 90-minute click and collect in Australia

  1. Walmart plus five months on

  2. More Walmart

  3. Retail beat

  4. Doordash buys chowbotics

  5. TikTok shelved

  6. Jaguar goes all electric

  7. BitPay and ApplePay

  8. NSW IT cost overruns reduced by 90%. What on earth was happening before??

  9. Google Pays French News

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  1. 10-20-30 - war on waste

  2. Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fittest of them all

  3. AMZ FBA aggregators SellerX Thrasio

  4. Amazon Echo Frames

  5. Amazon chips

  6. MS Edge your shopping browser

  7. Digital makeup by Loreal

  8. Best Buy and Instacart

  9. Ride sharing vs deliveries

  10. Doordash IPO news

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  1. Digital Marketplaces are the new frontier

  2. Amazon Smart Shelf

  3. Kroger offering COVID antibody testing

  4. Lithuania Cash for Clunkers e-scooter program

  5. Digital Voting Ecosystems https://www.avalancheinsights.com

https://join.mobilize.us

https://clearballot.com/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter-20201029

https://www.ballotready.org

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/us/politics/mobile-voting-washington.html?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter-20201029

https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/03/12/136676/a-major-flaw-has-been-found-in-switzerlands-online-voting-system/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter-20201029

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-election-cyber-idUSKBN16D233?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter-20201029

https://www.scytl.com/en/

https://www.owler.com/company/scytl

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/us/politics/mobile-voting-washington.html?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter-20201029

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/10/28/voting-disabilities-accessibility

  1. Walmart sacks their robots.

  2. BossaNova

  3. Energiser Homepower

  4. Amazon collecting physical receipts. As if they didn’t have enough data

  5. Starbucks has more mobile payments than you thought

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  1. Amazon Fresh Operating Model
  2. Five technologies shaping China Retail
  3. Smoothie-bot
  4. Azure Data Centre in a box
  5. Trick or Treat Bot
  6. 2DBarcode
  7. Amazon EV Last Mile
  8. Zip deal with Visa, Apple, Google
  9. Autonomous Grocery Last mile
  10. EU Cross Border contact tracing

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  1. Prime Day is the new Black Friday
    Amazon offers spend $10 get $10 for Prime Day
    Walmart plans online sale that parallels Prime Day
  2. NVIDIA uses AI to slash bandwidth on video calls
  3. ChefBot
    ChefBot Video
  4. iPhone 12 release
  5. Trickbot
  6. BYU students contracting COVID for cash
  7. Tweetbot
  8. IBM Split
  9. Cycling Victoria introduces 1 metre rule
  10. Qantas flights to nowhere

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  1. Zero Groceries Zero waste groceries

  2. Amazon One

  3. Google offers $1bn in licensing payments Apple plays nicely?

  4. Salesforce Okta partnership for contact tracing

  5. US Elections and Chipolte

  6. AI and Trains

  7. Astronauts with a facelift

  8. Micromobility

  9. Air Jordan on Snapchat

  10. Four ideas for post-covid cities

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  1. Online Grocery to double in five years

  2. Uber Grocery

  3. NBN

  4. Tesla Battery Day

  5. TikTok banned

  6. Coalition against the App Store

  7. Green technology leads the exit from COVID19

  8. Google career certificates

  9. Ecosystem 2.0

  10. Qantas selling bar carts

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  1. Retail Beat Beating the shrink on grocery shelves Amazon share space with Kohls

  2. Buffett makes $1bn on Snowflake IPO

  3. Oracle partnering with Tiktok? The saga continues

  4. Has COVID 19 triggered nostalgia?

  5. Nvidia buys ARM

  6. Apple One

  7. Rayban Augmented Reality Glasses Bose Frames

  8. NAB 0% credit card to compete with BNPL. Still doesn’t get it.

  9. Linking purpose with profitability

  10. Digital vs IT - Is there a difference?

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  1. Retail Beat Doordash adds Grocery to last mile Woolworths opens B2B platform

  2. Amazon Go Grocery opens second store

  3. Hyvee offers self-administered COVID tests

  4. Tracetogether update

  5. Walmart Drones

  6. Salesforce contact tracing More Salesforce

  7. Grocery food halls

  8. Netflix thinks we should be back in the office

  9. TikTok for retail

  10. Snowflake IPO

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The end of the print catalogue part II

Walmart +

Grabango and Giant Eagle

Amazon + Myer Frenemies

Nike direct to customer ambition

Amazon Phones in Trees

Amazon Drones FAA approval

GPT-3

Flying cab drivers

Investment tips?

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  1. Amazons latest store concept

Amazon Dash Cart

  1. Walmart is going to buy TikTok

  2. Shoppable Livestreams

  3. Googles AFairCode

  4. Cobots

  5. Overshipping

  6. Polymetallic Nodules

  7. Pocket

  8. Donate to Dimmi’s Tour De France Virtual Ride Lifeline Cause

  9. Donate again :)

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Retail Beat - Westfield locks retailers out of stores

Harvesting Robots - Root.AI

Farm.One

The Future of Work

Supermarket Farms

FutureFeed seaweed additive that will cut methane emissions by 80%

Walmart is bigger than Amazon

Amazon and Morrisons partnership

The last Blockbuster lists itself on AirBNB

Victory Gardens

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Retail Beat

The running list of 2020 bankruptcies

Amazon buying shopping mall space for fulfilment centres

Coles to permanently axe print catalogue

Epic games may have laid the perfect antitrust trap for Apple

COVID 19 in New Zealand

China rules the supply chain - deindustrialisation means disarmament

Kroger goes for endless aisles - new marketplace strategy

Sudowrite - application of GPT 3

Walmart teams up with Instacart

Remote working new normals

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The Retail Beat

Shopping behaviour is changing

Trump bans TikTok….and TenCent…and half the video gaming industry

Globotics

GPT-3 - AI written blog fools everyone

NBN satellites

UK ditches contact tracing app

Tech Investment : Buy vs Build

Doordash launches online convenience store Dashmart

Favourite Podcasts

Walmart DriveIn Opens

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  1. Retail Beat Microfarms in the grocery aisle farmwall.com.au

  2. FaceID with a mask

  3. We still need physical disks to move big files around

  4. COVIDSafe cost $60m

  5. Society 5.0

  6. Privacy Shield update - Insight from Pete

  7. Potential TikTok acquisition by US VC

  8. Siemens now remote working

  9. Telehealth - 96% of Doctors are only using the phone not video - Insight from Pete

  10. Xprize.org

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  1. Retail Beat ACCC proposes to allow supermarkets to continue cooperating on grocery supply

  2. Lorna Jane fined $40K for attempting to exploit COVID19 to sell more tracksuits

  3. Safety Trace contact tracing

  4. Don’t make TikTok a political football

  5. Co-Browsing - screen sharing on steroids

  6. AfterPay to switch on Apple Pay, Google Pay

  7. myGovID digital ID shmozzle

  8. Twitter hacked via social engineering

  9. Adversarial machine learning

  10. Sally the Salad making robot

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Retail Beat

Lockdown 2.0
Bunnings sausage sizzle to return this weekend

NBN woes
NBN cuts 800 staff
NBN is already past its used by date

Microsoft Teams Update

Uber buys Postmates

50% of code is in the browser

Facebook advertising boycott

TikTok vultures are circling

TikTok contagion

TenThingsFriday Recap

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  1. Retail Beat

  2. BMW is going all in on in-car microtransactions

  3. Open Banking
    What is Open Banking?
    Open banking in Australia
    Open Banking and the Evolution of Digital Payments

  4. Woolworths hit with $1 million fine from ACMA for spam emails

  5. Federal $1.35bn investment in cyber security

  6. US Treasury sent $1.4bn of pandemic aid to dead people

  7. TikTok banned in India
    Guy who reverse engineered TikTok reveals the scary things he learned

  8. Walmart Drive Ins

  9. VPN’s - how private are they? (not very)

1 Weedbots
Tiny weed-killing robots could make pesticides obsolete

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  1. Retail Beat Toilet paper...again

  2. Shopping centres may never recover from COVID

  3. Last mile drone deliveries Drone delivery systems Wing UPS and CVS will use drones to deliver prescriptions

  4. Amazon opening a new warehouse in Sydney

  5. Tales from the CIO - How to get the most out of Tech

  6. Apple digital car keys

  7. Hydrogen cars

  8. Apple watch hand washing

  9. Home automation - the art of the possible

  10. Vicinity Centres proposal that online sales should be a variable in physical rent

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Apologies - some network and audio issues resulted in some of the episode being lost.

The dodgy network connection is because of the sharks.

Sharks eating undersea cables

Retail Beat

e-Commerce grew and wil drink back, geography and locality of COVID effects will remain prevalent and localisation will be important

Shopify and Walmart partnership

Walmart’s New Shopify Partnership Is Another Stroke Of Omnichannel Genius

According to AICD a radical rethink of government policy is needed

Not on audio City of Melbourne Upgrade
Hundreds of car parking spaces to go as city embraces cycling

Not on audio Jobmaker infrastructure progress at long last

Scott Morrison Jobmaker fast track major projects
Victoria Government Responding to COVID

COVIDSafe update

DTA Swamped with COVIDsafe app feedback in the first month

Singapore is using tokens for contact tracing

Reverse Zoonosis

COVID-19 in cats

Coronavirus rips through dutch mink farms

Tiger with SARS COV 2 infection demonstrates reverse zoonosis

SpaceX Starlink prepares for beta users

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TenThingsFriday is a podcast about ten things you need to know about Australian Retail, Technology and the Future

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3DMeditech

Sports simulation & performance technology has gone up a level

Best cycling training apps 2020

Homecourt.ai

Chadstone is the new Disneyland

Retail beat – Kmart stock outs

Yep, Kmart is totally aware of its rows of empty shelves

Black Lives Matter and 3D Printing

3D printed eye wash distributor

The 3.5% rule

MyGov security – identity fraud

MyGovID

Austrac

Authorities reveal superannuation fraud

Germany mandates EV charging stations at every petrol station

Mental stress of isolation; the social benefits of the workplace

How to help employees adjust to remote working

Amazon Air adds 10 new planes in a bid for logistics domination

Closing remarks - How do we ensure we learn from the current events and become more inclusive as a community?

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Retail Beat

Twitter fact checking Trump

Twitter fact checks Donald Trump

Trump signs Executive Order targetting protections for social media platforms

Everything you need to know about section 230

Charting a way forward - Online Regulation (Facebook)

Digital Twins and Smart Cities

Google ends plans for smart city in Toronto

Lendlease helps form digital twin consortium

CovidSafe Highlander Update - There can be only one!

How did the CovidSafe go from being vital to almost irrelevant?

Government Stimulus

Doordash and Pizza arbitrage

Customer first, digital first

Drug dealers have gone digital as well

Dark web drug supply surges

Retail space - what next?

Covid Babies - Expect a baby boom around Xmas

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TenThingsFriday is ten things you need to know about Australian Retail, Technology and the Future. This week we are joined by Stuart Nickols, CDO IDP Education

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  1. Retail Beat

  2. Building Trust in the days of COVID

Kroger offering $300 one-time payment to staff

  1. Every day is black friday

Buying a car amid coronavirus

People shopped online every day in April like it was Black Friday

  1. Mass Surveillance is the killer app for deep learning

How big tech plans to profit from the coronavirus pandemic

Uber will scan drivers faces to make sure they are wearing masks

  1. Table for one

Bordforen

  1. We can be heroes

Coronavirus prevent seeding and spreading

  1. Travel bubbles

  2. Store Openings

  3. Stimulus Overdose

  4. Smart Cities

2 bn package to create new era for cycling and walking

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  1. Retail Beat

  2. Controlled Shopping

  3. Meat Processing Plants

  4. Office space is like land based cruise ships

  5. Innovation in the era of COVID 19

  6. Drive Ins and Drive Ups

  7. Nation building infrastructure

  8. Have / Have not divide increases

  9. Looking Upwards - SPECIAL GUEST Ed Tollinton, CIO of Nandos (around 33:00 minute mark)

  10. Bi-lateral world is emerging

  11. CovidSafe - If I download and delete this repeatedly so that we get to 40%, can we open the pubs?

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  1. Retail Beat

  2. Target repositioning

  3. Strategic Intent and timing

  4. CovidSafe

  5. Schools out forever

  6. University sector moves online

  7. Milan transforming 35 km of streets

  8. State and National Isolation

  9. Leadership in the years of Covid

  10. 3rd Quarter of isolation

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(1) Invest in the future - not the past

(2) Infrastructure Investment

(3) Mobile Contact Tracing part 3

(4) Staggered openings - what does it mean

(5) Ecological damage

(6) Why are Promos back ? Delivery Fees also going up, isn’t that price gouging?

(7) Building customer loyalty under COVID

(8) Ecosystem & platform opportunities

(9) Working from home - part II

(10) The retail beat

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  1. Business cases

  2. Cutbacks vs Investing

  3. When the tide goes out

  4. Build vs Buy

  5. End Game

  6. Less Choice

  7. New Normal : Mobile Data

  8. New Normal : Thermal

  9. New Normal : Winners and Losers

  10. Frenemies

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  1. Retail word from the street

  2. Kmart / online waiting rooms

  3. Frenemies

  4. Governments Leveraging Mobile data (changed this )

  5. Logitech supply chain

  6. Working from home

  7. Zoom vs Teams

  8. Offshoring

  9. Project pipeline

10 Depression or boom