Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Wednesday, June 12th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, the state of the internet according to Mary Meeker. House Party joins the Fortnite Party.

Uber Elevate is planning some important firsts. The DOJ is telegraphing its possible

punches to Silicon Valley, and someone find Have I Been pawned a good home please.

Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech.

It's a highlight of the Tech calendar every year. Mary Meaker delivered her annual Internet

Trend Report at the Code Conference yesterday. It's a 333 page slideshow that you can click through in the show notes to flip through it yourself.

But some of the headline data points that stuck out to me and that other people have noted,

helpfully collected by Recodes Rani

Mola. Summary bullet points like, some 51% of the world, 3.8 billion people were internet

users last year up from 49% or 3.6 billion in 2017.

E-commerce is now 15% of all retail sales.

Americans are spending more time with digital media than ever, 6.3 hours a day in 2018, up 7% from the year before.

The number of interactive gamers worldwide grew 6% to 2.4 billion people last year as interactive games like Fort Knight became the new

social media for certain people.

87% of global web traffic was encrypted in Q1 of this year up from 53% three years ago and I found this super

interesting. Images are increasingly the means by which people communicate as

technology developments like faster

Wi-Fi and better phone cameras have encouraged a surge in image-taking.

More than 50% of Twitter impressions now involve posts with images, video, or other media."

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Epic Games, the maker of Fort Knight and the Unreal Engine says it has acquired video chat social network house party for an undisclosed sum.

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