All Change in Silicon Valley
SPAC Fever high, Google Under Fire. That Was The Week, #41 I am using the Telegram App to enable readers to follow That Was The Week in real time. I usually post a sneak peek of the newsletter there on Thursday afternoon Pacific Time. It is also a place you can use to ask me […]
Elections, Rejections & the FCC
How FaceBook and Twitter are losing their role as platforms and becoming publishers. There is now a chat channel for That Was The Week on the Telegram App – Click here. Telegram is available on all platforms (Web, Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS) here. All articles set to appear in the following week’s That […]
Don’t Trust Anti-Trust
How the Democrats Can Lose Silicon Valley and their senses There is now a chat channel for That Was The Week on the Telegram App – Click here. Telegram is available on all platforms (Web, Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS) here. All articles set to appear in the following week’sThat Was The Week are […]
ChinAmerica – Two Nations, One World – Our Common Future
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Snowflake, Sumo and 3 SPACs
Newsletter This week Chamath Palihapitiya announced that he has 3 more SPACs set up and ready to go. These SPACs are vehicles to enable a company to go public, and get cash, without an IPO. Instead of gifting cash to the friends of Morgan Stanley this method gifts cash to Chamath and his friends. A […]
Who Agrees with Apple?
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Apple’s War on Facebook, Instagram and Google
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Two Tribes Go To War – DC versus Silicon Valley
Newsletter The anti big-tech stance of DC is a replacement for any genuinely innovative or progressive outlook from either of the main political parties. Shame on both of them. Barr accuses Google of bad behavior (no irony intended) That Was The Week, #34 There is now a chat channel for That Was The Week on […]
Andreessen to Gurley – “Spac-Off!”
The race to own and cash in on the best private companies That Was The Week, #33 There is now a chat channel for That Was The Week on the Telegram App – Click here. Telegram is available on all platforms (Web, Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS) here. All articles set to appear in […]
Epic Fail. Apple: Big But Not Bad.
Newsletter We live in strange times. Apple’s stock valued the company at over $2 Trillion this week. A reason to celebrate you might think. A company created, famously, in a garage by 2 young men, has grown to be a world leader. But in today’s world it appears that big is bad. In defence of […]
