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Strategy Taxes and Credits

  • Facebook’s Motivations

    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.

  • An Interview With Facebook Vice-President of News Feed Adam Mosseri

    An interview with Facebook Vice-President of News Feed Adam Mosseri about Facebook’s just-announced changes to the News Feed algorithm

  • Facebook Earnings, Facebook’s Strategy Credit (and Apple’s), Facebook and the Future

    Facebook absolutely crushed earnings, confirming its duopoly power; the company’s commitment to hurting profitability did the same. Then, a reminder that Facebook has a positive role to play in the future.

  • Tim Cook’s Unfair and Unrealistic Privacy Speech, Strategy Credits, The Privacy Priority Problem

    Tim Cook, by wrongly accusing Google and Facebook of “selling data”, is making discussions about privacy more difficult. Plus, Apple’s privacy Strategy Credit.

  • A Technological Optimist, but Just

    In June, in response to claims that nine Internet companies were willingly passing information to the NSA, Apple released Apple’s Commitment to Customer Privacy: Apple has always placed a priority on protecting our customers’ personal data, and we don’t collect or maintain a mountain of personal details about our customers in the first place. There are…

  • Strategy Credit

    A strategy credit is the opposite of a strategy tax: it is when a hard decision for other companies is easy because of business model.

  • The Android Detour

    Google is at its best when its product focus follows its business model; for too long Android was a detour.