While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core
Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. Much…
Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads
It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. I prefer instead to divide it…
Facebook, Zynga, and buyer-supplier hold up
The brewing fight between Facebook and Zynga is what is known in economic strategy circles as “buyer-supplier hold up.” The classic…
Old VC firms: get ready to be disrupted
If the U.S. economy were a company, the VC industry would be the R&D department. The financing for the VC industry comes from so-called LPs…
The tradeoff between open and closed
When having the “open vs closed” debate regarding a technology platform, a number of distinctions need to be made. First, what exactly is…
Twitter and third-party Twitter developers
I can’t remember the last time the tech world was so interesting. First, innovation is at an all time high. Apple, Google, Facebook…