Mergers and Acquisitions
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Medium the Network, Automattic Buys WooCommerce, Google and the Value of Identity
This Daily Update examines Medium’s seeming pivot towards being a network instead of a publisher, which is a contrast to WordPress.com’s latest move towards e-commerce. Finally, a brief examination of why identity matters.
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Daily Update: BuzzFeed Busted, LinkedIn Buys Lynda.com
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Daily Update: Microsoft is Rebuilding Office, Amazon Home Services
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Daily Update: BuzzFeed, Trust, and Regret; Backdoor Hypocrisy; Uber Acquires deCarta
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Daily Update: Car Rumors and Jony Ive’s Apple, Obama’s Cybersecurity Summit, China Taxi Apps Merge
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Daily Update: Touch ID and Identity, Twitter Acquires Niche, Baidu Results Disappoint
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Daily Update: How to Violate Privacy Like a Professional, Microsoft Acquires Acompli, Amazon’s Kiva Cleverness
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Microsoft’s Good (and Potentially Great) Minecraft Acquisition
It’s difficult to overstate what a big deal Minecraft is. It’s the third best-selling game of all time behind Tetris and Wii Sports, and unlike the latter especially, it is a remarkably sticky experience: the vast majority of customers (over 90 percent on PC, according to Microsoft) sign in every single month. Were Microsoft to […]
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Daily Update: Don’t Call It an iWatch; Apple, Samsung, and the Internet of Things; Alibaba’s Results