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by ziszis 10y ago
Verizon's plan when buying AOL [0] wasn't to become a media company, but to become a leader in ad tech. The way to lead in ad tech is to control data. Technology alone is not a moat. Verizon has made several attempts at unlocking
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by ziszis 10y ago
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has an MBA. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has an MBA. AWS CEO Andrew Jassy has an MBA, etc. It is easy to undervalue marketing, sales, financial and other non-technical skills. There are definitely terrible MBAs, but
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Verizon announces plans to install a download-tracking app on its Android phones(eff.org)
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I'm ditching Amazon for Walmart's e-commerce competitor – here's why(businessinsider.com)
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by ziszis 10y ago
Acceptable belief vs. True belief are independent. There are some beliefs that are acceptable (Jesus) and others that are not (Zeus, Scientology). They are equally likely depending on your perspective. The Internet has enabled people that t
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Trump Leaves Science Jobs Vacant, Troubling Critics(mobile.nytimes.com)
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by ziszis 10y ago
Seattle* is an anomaly. Roughly the 100th city worldwide by size, yet has 2 of the 5 largest companies in the world by market cap. * Technically Seattle metro area
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A rare 100-point wine(myajc.com)
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by ziszis 10y ago
Good call on the footnote. The Facebook 10K [1] clarifies the definition of DAU: "The numbers for our key metrics, our DAUs, MAUs, and average revenue per user (ARPU), do not include Instagram, WhatsApp, or Oculus users unless they wou
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by ziszis 10y ago
No. Instead, this is probably an example of people on this forum not being representative of global Internet users. If you want actual data, look at their quarterly earnings [1] where they report user engagement metrics. Daily active users
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38 percent of U.S. jobs could be lost to automation in the next 15 years(recode.net)
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by ziszis 10y ago
"it's not even on our radar screen.... 50-100 more years" If he really believes this there is a huge disconnect between the belief system of Wall Street and Silicon Valley.
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Mnuchin: Losing human jobs to AI “not even on our radar screen”(axios.com)
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Uber says it just had its best U.S. week ever(recode.net)
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by ziszis 10y ago
"Possible targets floated by investors include Thomas Staggs, the former COO at Walt Disney Co.; Tim Armstrong, CEO of Verizon Communications Inc.’s AOL; and John Martin, CEO of Time Warner Inc.’s Turner, said a person familiar with th
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Uber’s Messy Breakup Complicates Search for COO(bloomberg.com)
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by ziszis 10y ago
The argument that "Uber isn't taking the money, but the driver is" seems like a difficult one to make (and I know that you are not making this argument) given that : a) Uber actually collects the payment and then disburses so
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Apple Introduces RED iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus(apple.com)
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by ziszis 10y ago
AirBnb charges and pays VAT in the UK and EU [1]. EBay charges and pays VAT in the UK and EU [2]. I understand that companies want to avoid paying taxes, but I wonder what the legal reasoning was that led Uber to decide not to. Uber needs t
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by ziszis 10y ago
Now every departure is viewed with suspicion. With a 10,000 person company there is going to be exec departures, but even normal departures will have rumors attached to them (why did they really leave? Isn't the timing odd? Was somethi
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Uber Kenya hikes fare by 20 percent after driver strikes(mobile.reuters.com)
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Kids on winning robotics team told, 'Go back to Mexico'(usatoday.com)
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“Safety Third” Was an Ongoing Joke Between Uber Self-Driving Car Engineers(thedrive.com)
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FBI arrests alleged attacker who tweeted seizure-inducing strobe at Eichenwald(theverge.com)
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Trump’s biggest budget cuts to NASA: ranked(theverge.com)
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by ziszis 10y ago
The counter quote is from Warren Buffet: "When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact." Is Craig's List a
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Justice Department charging Russian spies and criminal hackers in Yahoo intrusion(washingtonpost.com)
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by ziszis 10y ago
Just the way companies incur technical debt, there is also ethical debt. It is accumulated by taking ethical shortcuts and avoiding painful decisions (a case I have seen several times is letting star devs/sales misbehave). Eventually t
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Seven Rules of Thumb for Web Site Experimenters [pdf](exp-platform.com)
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by ziszis 10y ago
This is the closest I can find: “When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think . . . ” Bannon said, not finishing the sentence. “A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic so

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