{"id":1099,"date":"2017-03-27T21:51:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T01:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2017-03-27T21:51:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T01:51:37","slug":"what-im-reading-this-week-3272017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/27\/what-im-reading-this-week-3272017\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading This Week: 3\/27\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Banks, especially retail ones are losing market share from apps like Venmo. \u00a0The LA Times has a report on how banks are trying to claw back into this space with a push into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-agenda-p2p-20170327-story.html?utm_source=Today%27s+Headlines&amp;utm_campaign=a56de3abb6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_b04355194f-a56de3abb6-80536741\">peer to peer payment systems<\/a>. \u00a0 While not the same, but related, I wrote a piece on Medium a few weeks ago about how <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@rosskressel\/banking-in-the-developing-world-65133530b3bf#.qk6u8acvy\">mobile payments<\/a> are impacting those that were previously un-banked in the developing world. \u00a0You might enjoy it as related reading.<\/li>\n<li>Smashbox, a brand owned by Est\u00e9e Lauder, has some interesting data on how people use a tool for trying on makeup virtually according to a piece in <a href=\"https:\/\/news.fastcompany.com\/do-customers-want-virtual-makeup-try-on-tools-smashbox-has-some-data-4033166\">Fast Company<\/a>. \u00a0 This could have major implications on how we buy in a post shopping mall world.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/business\/technology\/take-a-ride-in-this-luxury-electric-open-air-sedan\/2017\/03\/22\/b9482c4a-0f17-11e7-aa57-2ca1b05c41b8_video.html\">Washington Post<\/a> has a really cool video of a concept car produced by Lucid Motors.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/business\/technology\/take-a-ride-in-this-luxury-electric-open-air-sedan\/2017\/03\/22\/b9482c4a-0f17-11e7-aa57-2ca1b05c41b8_video.html\">Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation<\/a> is trying to change the way that medical research spreads. \u00a0They are changing the way that research is shared, which could have a huge impact on speeding up medical discovery and innovation. \u00a0This piece from the Economist is a really good piece.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banks, especially retail ones are losing market share from apps like Venmo. \u00a0The LA Times has a report on how banks are trying to claw back into this space with a push into peer to peer payment systems. \u00a0 While not the same, but related, I wrote a piece on Medium a few weeks ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}