Potpourri Edition: From Summit at Sea to AliBaba and everything in-between.

This week, Brian, Faisal and Mike discuss a wide variety of topics, and in between these, we talk about Apple Car, Edward Snowden, Strangulation by Regulation, Wall Street pressure, Jack Ma of Alibaba to Jack Mama! Summit at Sea Square IPO Barclays fined again Martha Stewart moves to Amazon’s Handmade platform Amazon first physical store Most US consumers plan to go to Amazon.com for their online holiday shopping, rather than going to malls and shops, finding parking, weathering the cold days and testing their patience Apple to partner (acquire?) Postmates Samsung Pay is coming to budget phones. The Korean mobile phone maker says it will be offering Samsung Pay on both its mid and low end handsets. Silicon Valley Bank survey shows 43% think regulatory red tape is main hurdle to growth in fintech growth, In an interesting development, a UK government report cites that “digital currencies pose lowest money laundering risk” China’s Alibaba Singles Day Sale: $14.3 Billion in 24 hours. Up 60% from last year’s record: $ 9.3 Billion. Sponsors: Otter Labs www.hireotter.com - Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter. Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza - Redeeem is a decentralized peer-to-peer exchange that lets you save 15% or more on gift cards using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.