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Wolfgang Blau

@wblau
10 posts
2024-09-12
In weeks like these - Draghi report, EU fines on big tech, crisis of EU automotive industry - it comes to haunt the EU and its member states that they host no news organisation with the global reach and stature of an FT, Reuters, Bloomberg or Wall Street Journal. The task of
2024-09-12 View on X
Bloomberg

A 397-page EC report, released shortly before the CJEU's verdicts against Apple and Google, says the EU's competition enforcement can be “harmful to innovation”

I don't think this requires further comments. … Jonatan Tylsgaard Larsen : A challenging yet liberating read.  Finally, someone has tied up the loose ends.  And it reflects exactly...

2022-01-25
Alternative headline: publishers defending their right to track and profile readers. „German publishers oppose Google plan to phase out third-party cookies" https://giftarticle.ft.com/...
2022-01-25 View on X
Financial Times

Hundreds of German advertisers and publishers, including Axel Springer, say Google is breaking EU law by phasing out third-party cookies from Chrome by 2023

and all the Very Serious People™ writing about this are yet to explain how small businesses are supposed to grow; or what happens when hundreds of businesses around the world can't...

2022-01-24
Alternative headline: publishers defending their right to track and profile readers. „German publishers oppose Google plan to phase out third-party cookies" https://giftarticle.ft.com/...
2022-01-24 View on X
Financial Times

Hundreds of German publishers, including Axel Springer, say Google is breaking EU law with its move to phase out third-party cookies from Chrome by next year

Axel Springer among the media groups demanding that Brussels intervene on search giant's plan  —  Google is facing a fresh complaint …

2020-08-24
WSJ: “Zuckerberg stoked Washington's fears about TikTok” If true, facebook must have given up now on its own ambitions in China. What about the supposedly huge revenue it receives from Chinese companies advertising on fb abroad? https://www.wsj.com/...
2020-08-24 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg stoked concerns about Chinese internet companies and TikTok in meetings with officials and several senators in Washington, DC last fall

Social-media tycoon emphasized threat from Chinese internet companies as he worked to fend off U.S. regulation of Facebook

2019-09-16
Good story about Ali's struggles abroad. However: what most Western media don't appreciate enough is how vast the domestic opportunity is for Chinese players. Why bother with expanding abroad if there are 30 tier-2 and 70 tier-3 cities to expand into? https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2019-09-16 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Since its 2014 IPO, Alibaba has struggled to grow beyond China despite investing $5B+ in new markets; ~5% of its last FY revenue came from international retail

Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @dali_yang , @vinhlhq2015 , @baldingsworld , @wblau , and @eolander Tweets: Dali L. Yang / @dali_yang : Alibaba's missteps overseas; A botched toilet...

2018-02-13
The accusations against Murdoch in this piece as well as Facebook's alleged countermeasures are staggering. https://www.wired.com/...
2018-02-13 View on X
Wired

A behind-the-scenes look at two tumultuous years at Facebook as it battled with fake news, its impact on the election, global affairs, and users' minds

ONE DAY IN late February of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to all of Facebook's employees to address some troubling behavior in the ranks.

2018-01-16
„There will be less video. Video is an important part of the ecosystem. It's been consistently growing. But it's more passive in nature. There's less conversation on videos, particularly public videos." http://www.wired.com/...
2018-01-16 View on X
Monday Note

Facebook exits from news after killing notions of the brand, authorship, business model; publishers should focus on products that directly impact their company

who cleverly designed their products to blend neatly into Facebook—started out doing well, but now face disappointment’ http://mondaynote.com/... Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu : I have...

„There will be less video. Video is an important part of the ecosystem. It's been consistently growing. But it's more passive in nature. There's less conversation on videos, particularly public videos." http://www.wired.com/...
2018-01-16 View on X
Wired

Facebook's head of News Feed Adam Mosseri says the recently announced overhaul, designed to help people better connect, will result in less video appearing

2018-01-12
After ‚pivot to video', try ‚pivot to sponsored post'. http://twitter.com/...
2018-01-12 View on X
New York Times

Zuckerberg says News Feed will focus on what friends share, de-emphasize content from publishers and brands as it moves to favor interactions over passive posts

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook introduced sweeping changes to the kinds of posts, videos and photos that its more than two billion members …

2018-01-10
Apple will share all China-based iCloud data with a government-owned Chinese company: http://www.bbc.co.uk/...
2018-01-10 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple to relocate Chinese customer iCloud data and operations from US to mainland China starting February 28 to comply with local laws

Apple has today announced a date for when it will hand over operations of iCloud data services for residents of mainland China to CGBD.