Big Tech

In November, the Federal Trade Commission issued a policy statement reactivating its authority under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act to rein in unfair methods of competition. …

“The blood of a unicorn will keep you alive, even if you are an inch from death, but at a terrible price. You have slain something pure and defenseless to save yourself, and you will have but a half-life, a cursed life, from the moment the blood touches your lips.” …

With the recent Amazon obligatory 3 day office visit policy, I’ve decided to reflect on the WFH phenomenon in hindsight and suggest a probable scenario of what awaits us in the future. — Last week tech social media was bustling with the news about Amazon introducing an obligatory 3-day office visit policy, which was met with a huge backlash from employees all across the globe (~25k Amazonians have signed a petition against such a policy). Corporations like Amazon have the leverage to pull…

History repeats itself and right now, the tech industry is starting to look a lot like it was in the 1970s. In the 70s, the tech was dominated by 2 firms: AT&T and IBM. AT&T’s telephones were in every home in America and it controlled pretty much the full gamut…

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed on March 10, 2023, raising concerns about a potential new economic crisis. SVB had almost half of all venture capital-backed companies in the United States as clients (nearly 65,000 startups). When interest rates were low, startups could quickly raise a lot of cash from Venture…

Every minute, we generate 16 million tweets, 1 million hours of streaming video, and 66K Instagram photos. And all of that user generated content is garnering more of our attention each day. Americans, in particular, now spend nearly as much time watching user-generated videos as they do watching traditional TV…

7 things you need for new product development — Early in her career, Mia Blume was an innovation consultant at IDEO, helping big companies figure out how to create new products and services in the market — often quite successfully. But where the efforts of external consulting agencies end is often where failure begins. “Even when we set up…

Once upon a time in the not-so-distant past, there were giants who roamed the Earth. These titans, known as Big Tech, wielded immense power by processing and storing vast amounts of data. …

I’m actually writing this on Sunday, something I wouldn’t normally do. All indie creators need to see this. Especially indie authors, who don’t even have a union. The article is called Quiet on Set | The hidden dangers of movie and TV production. …