Advertising
The most important business model for consumers.
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The advertising has shifted from a Google-Facebook duopoly to one where Amazon and potentially Apple are major forces.
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Facebook and Google and other advertising businesses are data factories, and regulation will be most effective if it lets users look inside
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Google is in hot water again, this time for ads placed against objectionable content. However, ad agencies and brands are just as responsible, and can no longer live in the past.
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Facebook has long had too much power, but Mark Zuckerberg’s expressed willingness to use said power for political ends means it’s time to consider countermeasures.
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Tech is entering a period of inequality where the big winners lift the sector as a whole even as smaller companies suffer. The best example is Facebook, Google, and digital advertising.
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Netflix Earnings, Netflix’s Growth Plans, Ads and Price Segmentation
Netflix’s earnings and 2029 goals show new avenues of growth that are downstream from increased segmentation.
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Google Loses Ad Antitrust Case, Market Definitions and Tying, The Trinko Exception
Google lost its ad antitrust case; if the case is upheld, it has important implications for all Aggregators.
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ChatGPT Memory, Boundaries and AI Companions, Auren
ChatGPT’s memory feature is pretty basic, but it’s the sort of product feature that can build a moat, particularly if it’s extended to other use cases.
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An Interview with Google Cloud Platform CEO Thomas Kurian About Building an Enterprise Culture
An interview with Google Cloud Platform CEO Thomas Kurian about Google’s infrastructure advantage and building and enterprise service culture.
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An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman About Building a Consumer Tech Company
An interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about building OpenAI and ChatGPT, and what it means to be an accidental consumer tech company.
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OpenAI API Updates, Steelmanning the API Business, The Problem With Both
OpenAI has compelling new updates to their API that should be good for the API business; is that good for OpenAI?
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Google Earnings, Search Status, China Antitrust Actions
Investor disappointment in Google is overwrought, while Search is showing some positive results from AI. Then, China is investigating Google and Apple for very different reasons.