Making fun of Silicon Valley and some of the silly startup ideas that get funded has become a popular sport, but as Y Combinator’s Sam Altman points out, great things often… Read more »
Last week we witnessed the reorienting of two giant work technology players — Amazon and Microsoft — with enormous impacts for the industry, and the marketplace. Amazon announced Zocalo, its entry… Read more »
Here are a couple of low- and high-end examples of how real-time data is being applied to disrupt the public transportation sector: As today’s Boston Globe reports, there is a “Data-driven… Read more »
The founders of Inkshares don’t think the traditional publishing industry is broken, just antiquated and inefficient — and they think marrying crowdfunding and the kinds of services publishers used to offer… Read more »
The $19 billion Facebook is paying for WhatsApp makes it seem like a desperate move to retain users, but it is also a sign that Mark Zuckerberg is more than willing… Read more »
If you were going to create a car company today, who would you look to for inspiration? General Motors? The world beater of the 20th Century, that ‘led global vehicle sales… Read more »
In a long discussion on Twitter about the future of journalism and the media, venture investor and Netscape creator Marc Andreessen talked about why he is fundamentally optimistic about the news… Read more »
Unlike in the music industry, digital technology has not yet changed how the money flows in the TV business or (for the most part) who gets it. If and when it… Read more »
New Yorker magazine wonders who the “next great technology critic” might be now that Walt Mossberg and David Pogue have moved on — but the truth is there isn’t going to… Read more »
Despite broadcasters’ trumpeting of the free-market principles they say are at work in retransmission negotiations, the current retransmission consent regime is truly a creature of Congress. Read more »