Tim O’Reilly: It’s Time to Rewrite the Rules of Our Economy
The economy game is enormously fun for far too few players and an increasingly miserable experience for many others.
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How Economists Turned Corporations into Predators
How shareholder value theory and other bad ideas created lousy incentives for corporations’ executives.
Read more...Facebook’s Fake Numbers: Parsing Facebook’s “Reach” Inflation
Facebook tells Big Lies about its users. Why aren’t advertisers making a Big Stink?
Read more...Uber Board Members Kiss and Make Up (for Now), but Long-Term Problems Remain
Uber may have bought itself more time with a conditional pact among its big shareholders, but it hasn’t solved its fundamental problems.
Read more...Will Retailers Switch to a Price Tag System That Screws Customers at Every Opportunity?
Beware! Retailers are trying to implement smart phone snooping to allow for better price gouging.
Read more...Silicon Valley Rejects Shareholder Value Theory: Disrupting the IPO
Silicon Valley has an alternative to the IPO…with a 20% haircut compared to Wall Street’s 7%. Should you hang on to your wallet?
Read more...Prosecution Futures? Multibillion Dollar Orders in Coinbase Trading Platform
Some mighty strange, and mighty big, orders in a Coinbase trading platform order book…..
Read more...Amazon’s Inhuman Customer Service Issues Death Sentence to Local Library Fundraising
Amazon is mean.
Read more...Planet of Introverts
Notes on Ursula Le Guin’s “Solitude,” introversion, politics, and class.
Read more...Cybersecurity Ain’t the Only Game in Town: The Scams Multiply
Cybersecurity is much in today’s news, but it’s not the only source of scams– which are much more omnipresent than in the past.
Read more...Too Big To Fail Banks: “The Robotics Are Coming!” Really?
More and more bank CEOs tout robotics as the answer for the industry’s precarious cost position. But will it promise more than it delivers?
Read more...Google Betting Big on Being Able to Overturn EU Antitrust Decision; Effectively Thumbs Its Nose at Compliance
Google got hit with a huge EU fine and faces even bigger charges for non-compliance. So why is it playing hardball?
Read more...Ripping up the Yellow Pages
Bye bye Yellow Pages….you will be missed.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Reports on SoftBank Offer for Uber….Yet No Other Press Outlet is Picking the Story Up
Why are major media outlets uncharacteristically ignoring a big SoftBank-Uber story that the Wall Street Journal broke yesterday?
Read more...Moody’s on Amazon: “Weakest of the Big US Retailers”
Moody’s throws a big bucket of cold water on Amazon frenzy. Will investors take heed or will it take longer for reality to sink in?
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