Profile of Paul Romer, once tech's favorite economist and now a critic, who has championed state taxes on the digital ads sold by Facebook and Google
Paul Romer's call for government activism, particularly toward the big tech companies, reflects “a profound change in my thinking.” Tweets: @ramaswmysridhar , @1br0wn , @staceynycdc , @hoofnagle , @an...
GroupM: Google, Facebook, and Amazon “triopoly” grew its share of US digital ad market from 80% in 2019 to 90% in 2020, and now collects 50%+ of all US ad spend
The three tech giants now collect more than half of all ad dollars spent in the U.S. The pandemic economy got them there. Tweets: @esgarchitect , @jamessurowiecki , @deardara , @stevesi , @tcpeter , @...
A look at the growing TikTok trend of “sleep-streams”, where users live-stream their sleep to earn digital coins and gain new followers
Some TikTok users are going viral, gaining followers and even making cash by live-streaming themselves overnight. Tweets: @glenngabe , @conniechan , @ramshajahangir , @stevesi , @caitlindewey , @a_web...
The moment when Intel lost mobile happened around 2008, when it gave up on producing low-power chipset for phones and refocused on Atom SoC and netbooks
Disruption is simple to say but there many factors at play. Disruption is never one feature, but a full set of assumptions that go into a business. Tweets: @marypcbuk , @gassee , @bradsilverberg , @s...
As Amazon-run private label brands grow to roughly 100 with $25B in expected revenue over the next four years, potential antitrust concerns could arise
It started with a simple battery. — Around 2009, Amazon quietly entered the private label business by offering a handful of items under a new brand called AmazonBasics. Tweets: @jeffmacke , @pakman ...
How open sourcing Netscape Communicator in 1998 and the creation of Mozilla, a gamble at the time, paved the way for the now-mainstream embrace of the practice
Stephen Shankland / CNET : Tweets: @morgamic , @stevesi , @stshank , and @stshank . Thanks: @iansherr Tweets: @morgamic : Happy birthday to Mozilla. This project changed my life. It was an honor to b...
W3C to recommend allowing companies with whom users show an “intention to interact”, like a Facebook login, to track them, weakening “Do Not Track” efforts
Fred B. Campbell Jr / New York Times : Tweets: @darylsurat , @stevesi and @caseynewton Tweets: Daryl Surat / @darylsurat : The Slow Death of ‘Do Not Track’ http://www.nytimes.com/... “For starters, t...