Making Money
Business models are the surest way to understand a company’s motivations.
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For Apple, hitting middle age means a strategy primarily focused on monetizing its existing customers. It makes sense, but one wonders what happens next.
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The impact of Facebook’s News Feed changes on the media is far less interesting than what the changes — and their stated purpose — say about Facebook itself.
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Google is at its best when its product focus follows its business model; for too long Android was a detour.
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Daily Update: Microsoft Earnings
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Dear Zoë Keating: Tell YouTube to Take a Hike
Zoë Keating is an example of a new kind of content creator who can best maximize their revenue by going direct to consumers.
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Daily Update: Amazon and the Opportunity Cost of Losing Focus, Sling TV and The Interview Follow-up, Samsung’s Bad yet Good Earnings
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Daily Update: Christmas Gifts for Google, Facebook, and Twitter
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Daily Update: Christmas Gifts for Apple, Samsung, and Xiaomi
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Daily Update: Xioami’s Profit, Xiaomi to Sell Air Purifier, Xiaomi India Ban Lifted
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Docker and the Integrated Open Source Company
It’s been a long time since an open source project has gotten as much buzz and attention as Docker. The easiest way to explain the concept is, well, to look at the logo of the eponymous1 company that created and manages the project: The reference in the logo is to shipping containers, one of the […]
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Daily Update: How to Violate Privacy Like a Professional, Microsoft Acquires Acompli, Amazon’s Kiva Cleverness
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Why Uber Fights
Ride-sharing is a winner-take-all market that depends on controlling demand more than it does supply.