Trump’s FCC Goes to War on Net Neutrality
Net neutrality has been under attack since 2002, and the Trump Administration is determined to do it in.
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Tech Giants Look to WTO to Entrench Their Monopoly Powers and Profits
How tech titans are using the WTO and trade agreements to further strengthen their dominant positions.
Read more...More Brexit Delusion: May’s “Exit Tab” Surprise, Davis’ City Scheme v. More Customs Alarms, Tech Brexodus
Yet more sobering Brexit sightings.
Read more...Uber and SoftBank Might Finally Have a Deal….But What Does It Mean?
It’s taken Uber four months to perhaps cinch a deal with SoftBank, while the spectacularly loss-making company is no closer to making money.
Read more...The Shipping Industry Needs to Deliver Cleaner Cargo Ships, or We’re All Sunk
Delivering on demand for lower-emissions vessels could be the industry’s most arduous journey of all.
Read more...Why You Should NEVER Buy an Amazon Echo or Even Get Near One
Why Amazon’s Echo, Google’s Home, and other “home assistants” are a threat to your privacy.
Read more...Cryptocurrency: Birkins for Geeks
Bitcoin as Birking-like bling.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
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