Disruptiv Newsletter: Ford delivers F-150 Lightning 🏁 GM's Super Cruise "hands free"🚘 Meta live shopping 👎 Tinder metaverse 🔚 Crypto 👾 and more

Welcome to the Disruptiv newsletter! You're about to get this week's top tech and innovation insight that we saw this week. Enjoy! [disruptivflow-header] Good morning, FlowBankers Welcome to the Disruptiv newsletter! A weekly aggregate of relevant tech-focused quick takes. . Saturday 6th August, 2022 [Start trading](113/cXx8Z04/VWRNDy5HSW0_W6H8QjZ9hpDT-W3V7XmG4Nnl_9N9fbG8X2-MK5V1-WJV7CgPsKW5ZJPpn1PWYTrW6DPLFY5jHH2xW8zcV2L91_-ZQW5lvls55DDzHzW9hD95R4DqznzW5zzt-x5cm0wmW7n4Qg28cGFBqW8HxGky7gyz1zW5h8f7s1qlGDzW38L1_x2hvYR8W7M6jfV1r5jb5Mj8x4Xj2BSVN3kGmPL7jPr0W1Pvv_s4CNTRqW8D4-0c7wlM27W7KFcnP88gQ6xW8M-3r18bCdL0W7Zx5vl7lV0n9W36mXH-31VvwmW8T2nHj42ZhWC3f1t1) FlowBank tech articles 📚 Could Amazon disrupt healthcare? [AMZN pharmacy](113/cXx8Z04/VWRNDy5HSW0_W6H8QjZ9hpDT-W3V7XmG4Nnl_9N9fbG8X2-MK5V1-WJV7CgV6YW3zWvsS5Cxm2GW2fHrKB3nVR2PW5p9MHp2n_cxwW7jH-y32HN809VCj9_H3ydsBPW179sQ02THT9JW1htDC75JFPfnW33qBRR2rf4nNW1MZ2F891R0KFW3sDtz2183dyDW5ghjm_4wKkTqVxFM4p2gpdWJN3ddSPrbjxdcW3WqH1z1zlfSwW7L4s3q2k-prfW6yk_fZ5H0qDjW315kLZ2J7NR3W4zp-3N5bKxdRW83k8mh1dCb3hW8zwgPD8NNWkl37c31) Amazon has a strong track record in building new lines of business by starting with small acquisitions. Its latest push into healthcare is buying proximity primary care provider One Medical. Could amazon’s latest acquisition allow it to disrupt the healthcare industry? [Read me](113/cXx8Z04/VWRNDy5HSW0_W6H8QjZ9hpDT-W3V7XmG4Nnl_9N9fbG8X2-MK5V1-WJV7CgLt3W2mNYKz20WmzyW30sC9M6kGvqcW1392YG7lRCFlW3jlFjb7nPSB9N9906KmfFgwmW5THVQb1YT4N-W7MrfSK6mH8V7W6YkqVZ8NKbJyW22Xqcg6jZ7h6W2FNVPC1yhJryW8w5tCW5Sxq0kMBsY276sH9BW5fykZ550dCs-W1cT2hQ7K_y1ZW5RzS6J2rMDjGW3G2TZ-5D2w_fW7DNR1Y8pG0R5W7mQ5bn1pWWVdW2_86826mXK7DW2G2lDk2WKTP4361R1) Big Technology 🍎 - Ford, delivered its sold-out F-150 Lightning electric truck to customers in all 50 states. The deliveries were all completed within two months, and now the real challenge is to rapidly scale production. c - General Motor's Super Cruise will make its "hands-free" advanced driver-assist system, that collects information, available to a lot more US and Canadian roads, covering 400'000 miles, doubling coverage. c - Facebook is shutting down its live shopping feature that lets creators broadcast and sell products to an audience. It says it is part of the company's initiative to focus more on Reels, its short-form video product. c - Tinder, the online dating app from Match Group, announced it is scaling back its metaverse ambitions and scrapping plans to offer an in-app Tinder Coins currency. Last year it acquired AR/VR firm Hyperconnect. VC + Startups 🎯 - Linkup, a social app from Manchester with a mission to bring people to connect in person raises EUR530k from investors including artists, footballers, and Youtubers. It plans to launch in Q4 of this year. - Clean Food Group, a UK-based startup developing a more sustainable alternative to palm oil just completed a EUR1.96 million seed round. It is now embarking on new partnerships to scale its product development. - Desti, a new video-focused TikTok-style dating app filters matches by date destinations. The app, launching first in Texas, lets users scroll through a vertical feed where profiles highlight first-date destinations. - Bounty, an online service that helps TikTok creators monetise brand reviews and recommendations raises USD4.7 million. Reviewers are able to earn up to USD10 per 1'000 views generated in the first 48 hours. Crypto 👾 - Ethereum Name Service Domain registrations hit an all-time high with more than 1.8 million ENS Domains registered and adoption by non-English speaking users is rising. The Merge is planned for Q3/Q4. c - MicroStrategy co-founder Michael Saylor is stepping down from his role of CEO to Chairman, to oversee MicroStrategy's "Bitcoin acquisition strategy". Saylor is in part famous for being a vocal Bitcoin advocate. c - Starbucks revealed it is working on an exciting Web3 initiative for its popular rewards program. It will announce the new reward model on September 13th. Law and regulation 🕵️ - The EU is making online tracking and profiling to target users with behavioral ads more difficult with a new ruling by the EU's top court. c - US lawmakers are preparing a bill that would clarify the definition of 'brokers' to exclude crypto stakers, miners, and other parties who may not have the tax reporting information needed to comply. Disruptiv Figure 📊 . Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet Lead Cloud Market In Q2 2022, global cloud infrastructure service spending climbed to USD55 billion, or more than USD200 billion on an annual basis. Amazon Web Services is leading the cloud infrastructure market with a 34% market share, having established itself early, followed closely by Microsoft's Azure (21% share) and Alphabet's Google Cloud (10% share). [Cloud Statista 03.08.2022] Don't forget to... 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