As I mentioned in my previous edition of Newley’s Notes, I’ll be on summer holiday for the next couple of weeks.
Back at you later this month!
App Traps: How Cheap Smartphones Siphon User Data in Developing Countries
That’s the headline of a story out Thurs. and in Friday's paper that I wrote with my colleagues Josh Chin, Myo Myo, and Kersten Zhang. It begins: For millions of people buying inexpensive smartphones in developing countries where privacy protections … [Continue reading]
Newley’s Notes 140: Instagram TV; China’s Tech Prowess; Dancing in Movies; See You in a Month!
Edition 140 of my email newsletter went out last Sunday. If you’d like NN delivered to your inbox before it’s posted here, simply enter your email address at this link. It’s free, it’s fun, it’s brief, and few people unsubscribe. Hi, friends. … [Continue reading]
Somehow I Missed this Bill Gates Quote
Here's a photo of a poster I recently spotted for sale by a sidewalk vendor here in New Delhi's Connaught Place. Yes, it has the billionaire Microsoft founder and now famed philanthropist Bill Gates saying: "If you born poor it's not your mistake, … [Continue reading]
Newley’s Notes 139: Toyota –> Grab; AT&T-Time Warner; Soccer Hair; Renegade Raccoon
Edition 139 of my email newsletter went out last Sunday. If you’d like NN delivered to your inbox before it’s posted here, simply enter your email address at this link. It’s free, it’s fun, it’s brief, and few people unsubscribe. Hi, friends. … [Continue reading]
Newley’s Notes 138: The. World. Cup!; RIP Tony Bourdain; Japanese Mini-Truck Gardening
Edition 138 of my email newsletter went out on Sunday. If you’d like NN delivered to your inbox before it’s posted here, simply enter your email address at this link. It’s free, it’s fun, it’s brief, and few people unsubscribe. Hi, friends. … [Continue reading]
Loris Karius and the Existential Pain of Goalkeeping
When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune. -- Albert Camus, goalkeeper and philosopher When I was eighteen years old, during the fall of my freshman year, I started in goal as my college soccer team faced off at home … [Continue reading]
Newley’s Notes 137: Tommy Talks Royals; China’s Tech Titans; Singing Bulldogs
Edition 137 of my email newsletter went out on Sunday. If you’d like NN delivered to your inbox before it’s posted here, simply enter your email address at this link. It’s free, it’s fun, it’s brief, and few people unsubscribe. Hi, friends. … [Continue reading]
Newley’s Notes 136: Go-Jek Expands; Theranos Exposed; Gareth Bale = Genius
Edition 136 of my email newsletter went out a couple weeks back. If you’d like NN delivered to your inbox before it’s posted here, simply enter your email address at this link. It’s free, it’s fun, it’s brief, and few people unsubscribe. Hi, … [Continue reading]
Newley’s Notes 135: India’s WhatsApp-ocalypse; the Ascent of Fortnite; Year’s Best Fail
Edition 135 of my email newsletter went out a few weeks back. If you’d like NN delivered to your inbox before it’s posted here, simply enter your email address at this link. It’s free, it’s fun, it’s brief, and few people unsubscribe. Hi, … [Continue reading]