Netflix Earnings, Netflix and the Aggregation Dream

Netflix’s earnings were disappointing for reasons characteristic to disappointing earnings for all service companies. For Netflix, though, the stakes are higher.

The Full TSLA Experience, Twitter vs LinkedIn, Nintendo vs Sony

Elon Musk may be a lot of things, but he’s not exactly straight with investors, and now he’s making his biggest bet yet. Plus, the differences between Twitter and LinkedIn, and Nintendo and Sony

Amazon Earnings, Amazon’s Cloud War

Amazon’s earnings were even better than reported: it looks like the retail business is gaining real economies of scale, and AWS was even stronger than it appeared.

Prince, Bowie, and Beyoncé; Google’s Margin Squeeze; Microsoft’s Miss

Prince and David Bowie both understood the Internet, but took drastically different approaches. Then, Google’s business is fine, but it has almost certainly peaked, and the company could learn something from Microsoft about managing expectations.

Microsoft SQL Server to Run on Linux, Box’s Great Quarter

Windows is truly dead at Microsoft, as SQL Server will soon run on Linux. Meanwhile, Box had a great quarter, underlying the fact that SaaS economics work — and what happened to Windows Server helps explain why.