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    Dithering | Jan 23
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  • An Interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg About Turnarounds

    Thursday, November 13, 2025

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    An interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg about a career focused on turnarounds, from EA’s KOTR to Zynga and now to Unity.


  • The End of AOL Instant Messenger, Innovation Versus Interoperability, Portability > Interoperability

    Tuesday, October 10, 2017

    AOL Instant Messenger is dead, and there is a new debate as to whether interoperability killed it. The answer is almost certainly no, but that doesn’t necessarily mean interoperability is a bad thing…or is it?


  • Verizon-AOL, Facebook Instant Articles, and the Future of Digital Advertising

    Wednesday, May 13, 2015

    Two seemingly unrelated stores — Verizon buying AOL. and Facebook offering publishers the option of Instant Articles — are actually very much connected: advertising online is undergoing a fundamental shift, and while there will be a few big winners, there will be a lot more losers.


  • Facebook and the Feed

    Wednesday, April 22, 2015

    In a week where much of the Internet was all atwitter about Mobilegeddon, Google’s pre-announced algorithm change that will favor mobile-friendly sites in mobile search results, a potentially far more impactful announcement was much more of a surprise: Facebook is tweaking the News Feed algorithm. This is a big deal for publishers in particular: according […]


  • Daily Update: Samsung and Qualcomm, AOL: Stuck in the Middle, New York Times Reports Strong Results

    Wednesday, February 4, 2015


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  • An Interview with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters About Engagement and Warner Bros.

    Thursday, January 22, 2026
  • TSMC Earnings, The TSMC Brake Revisited, Why AI Needs Foundry Competition

    Wednesday, January 21, 2026
  • Ads in ChatGPT, Why OpenAI Needs Ads, The Long Road to Instagram

    Tuesday, January 20, 2026
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  • TVs and Siri Chatbot

    Dithering | Jan 23
    TVs and Siri Chatbot
  • (Preview) A Call to Action for TSMC’s AI Customers, Wall Street’s Netflix Anxiety, Q&A on Tech’s Cignetti, OpenAI, Starbucks

    Sharp Tech | Jan 23
    (Preview) A Call to Action for TSMC’s AI Customers, Wall Street’s Netflix Anxiety, Q&A on Tech’s Cignetti, OpenAI, Starbucks
  • Jimmy Butler Out for the Year, All-Star Reserves in Both Conferences, Trouble in Paradise for the Buss Family?

    Greatest Of All Talk | Jan 22
    Jimmy Butler Out for the Year, All-Star Reserves in Both Conferences, Trouble in Paradise for the Buss Family?

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  • An Interview with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters About Engagement and Warner Bros.

    Thursday, January 22, 2026
  • An Interview with United CEO Scott Kirby About Tech Transformation

    Thursday, January 15, 2026
  • An Interview with Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros and Ajey Pandey About Building Power for AI

    Thursday, January 8, 2026
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  • Was Nico Harrison Wrong?
    Friday, January 23, 2026
  • News in the Era of Irreconcilable Differences
    Friday, January 16, 2026
  • Notes from Schrödinger’s Cold War
    Friday, January 9, 2026
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  • An Interview with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters About Engagement and Warner Bros.

    Thursday, January 22, 2026
  • TSMC Earnings, The TSMC Brake Revisited, Why AI Needs Foundry Competition

    Wednesday, January 21, 2026
  • Ads in ChatGPT, Why OpenAI Needs Ads, The Long Road to Instagram

    Tuesday, January 20, 2026
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  • TVs and Siri Chatbot

    Dithering | Jan 23
    TVs and Siri Chatbot
  • (Preview) A Call to Action for TSMC’s AI Customers, Wall Street’s Netflix Anxiety, Q&A on Tech’s Cignetti, OpenAI, Starbucks

    Sharptech | Jan 23
    (Preview) A Call to Action for TSMC’s AI Customers, Wall Street’s Netflix Anxiety, Q&A on Tech’s Cignetti, OpenAI, Starbucks
  • Jimmy Butler Out for the Year, All-Star Reserves in Both Conferences, Trouble in Paradise for the Buss Family?

    Greatest Of All Talk | Jan 22
    Jimmy Butler Out for the Year, All-Star Reserves in Both Conferences, Trouble in Paradise for the Buss Family?

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Interviews

  • An Interview with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters About Engagement and Warner Bros.

    Thursday, January 22, 2026
  • An Interview with United CEO Scott Kirby About Tech Transformation

    Thursday, January 15, 2026
  • An Interview with Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros and Ajey Pandey About Building Power for AI

    Thursday, January 8, 2026
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