Author: Jorge Gonzalez

Inventor of the first cell phone is hopeful that new tech will improve it

Jorge Gonzalez
Cell phone - Brick phone

Marty Cooper feels that this device definitely has a dark side, but he’s optimistic for its future. The first cell phone call ever made was placed in New York City on April 3, 1973, by its inventor, Martin Cooper, using a massive gray prototype gadget. He and his team at Motorola had only recently developed the technology he was testing. The device that has now managed to change the world was invented by Cooper fifty years ago. Obviously, the original cell phone looked absolutely nothing like the slim, touchscreen devices…

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Google CEO Pichai tells employees to fix Bard AI problems

Jorge Gonzalez
Bard AI - Fixing Tech

The artificial intelligence function had a rocky launch, to say the least, with its unpredictable results. A leaked Google memo issued company-wide by the company’s CEO Sundar Pichai has requested that employees use two to four hours from their day to improve Bard AI and make the search function usable. Shortly after the botched unveiling, Google announced it knew the feature wasn’t ready for launch. Employees at Google are now all a part of the company’s plan to work out all the kinks in the Bard AI function to help…

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Meta Platforms launches a “Year of Efficiency”, and its stock takes off

Jorge Gonzalez
Meta Platforms - Stocks

CEO Mark Zuckerberg has vowed to work on achieving improved efficiency and decision making. Facebook founder and Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been pouring billions into the digital metaverse world and the company has been bleeding money as a result of these ventures. The company is now committing to focus its attention on the more immediate problems it is facing. Following drooping stock prices and substantial losses, Meta Platforms will now be buckling down and looking to correct its more immediate problems, such as sending its users improved relevancy…

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Western social apps on the cusp of mobile commerce explosion

Jorge Gonzalez
Mobile commerce - Shopping - Western World

The trend has already taken off at full force in China, and the West is primed for the same. Social media mobile commerce trends have already taken off in China, and apps like TikTok are pushing to take this boom into the Western world as well. These applications have seen the opportunity and are now seeking to build a massive new market. Consumers in China spent a massive $208 billion on the Douyin app alone – a mobile commerce application owned by the same company as TikTok, ByteDance. That app,…

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Digital wallets could prove very expensive for conventional banks

Jorge Gonzalez
Digital Wallets - Bank

As these payment apps and services grow in number and use, banks could lose out on billions in transactions. Consumers worldwide are increasingly using digital wallets to complete transactions both online and while in-store shopping, which means that banks stand to lose out on billions in transactions that would traditionally have belonged to them. What has yet to be seen is if those banks will pivot to keep up with their primary online competition. As digital wallets such as PayPal, Apple, and others are adopted at a rapid rate in…

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