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Fri. 07/28 – Is The Clock Ticking For Threads?
The whole Threads saga has been a whirlwind. At the beginning of the month I asked if Threads had already won. At the end of the month, I’m wondering...
Thu. 07/27 – Meta Back To Par
Meta’s earnings say, hey, let’s just forget the last two years even happened. Is the next iPhone about to get an “action” button? What does it mean if...
Wed. 07/26 – Samsung Unpacked Event
All the headlines from the big Galaxy Unpacked event today. This was the foldable event, but there were interesting watch announces too. Quick earning...
Tue. 07/25 – X Fallout Continues (Insert Xander Cage Joke Here)
Big potential vulnerability in AMD chips. Fallout from the whole X re-branding continues. Now TikTok is cloning Twitter. The Arc Browser is now availa...
Mon. 07/24 – This Podcast Is Now Called X Ride Home
Elon makes good on his promise to rebrand Twitter as… X. Moar price hikes in streaming! Worldcoin has officially rolled out its token, so long as you’...
Fri. 07/21 – Reddit Doesn’t Blink
Reddit is choosing violence with their biggest holdouts. More data on the ebbing of Threads usage. AI seems to be bringing Sergey Brin back into the o...
Thu. 07/20 – An Apple GPT
Rumors that Apple already has an LLM framework and their own generative chatbot. Google is shopping an AI bot that can write news stories to various j...
Wed. 07/19 – More Proof The Big Folks Are Winning AI (For Now)
Microsoft announced aggressive pricing for their AI products and got rewarded with an all-time high stock market valuation. More price aggression in t...
Tue. 07/18 – Checking In With Threads
It’s been… two weeks. Let’s check in on how Threads is doing. Streaming players continue to raise prices. Microsoft still plans on fighting for its pr...
Mon. 07/17 – Sony And Microsoft Stop Fragging Each Other Over Call Of Duty
Sony and Microsoft have made nice. Bitcoin ETFs continue to look like a possibility. How the Vision Pro is shaking up Apple’s org structure in a meani...
Fri. 07/14 – Twitter Starts Showing People The Money
Elon has made good on his promise to share ad revenue with some big Tweeters. The fact that you can’t use Threads in Europe continues to be weird. Met...
Thu. 07/13 – Elon Launches An AI Company
Elon has launched his own AI company with some pretty big names involved. The FTC will appeal! Roblox is coming to Zuckerberg’s metaverse. Meta does p...
Wed. 07/12 – Microsoft Wins Big In The FTC Case
A big win for Microsoft leads critics of FTC chair Lina Khan to come out of the woodwork. Anthropic has released its Claude 2 chatbot. Say hello to th...
Tue. 07/11 – A Meaningful Anti-Tracking Law
Could Massachusetts pass the first meaningful anti-tracking law in the country? With social media in transition, what’s the lane for someone like Tumb...
Mon. 07/10 – Evernote Deadpool?
Time to get worried about your Evernote files. Looks like Meta won’t have to leave the EU. OpenAI has a new product that people are raving about. More...
Fri. 07/07 – I’ve Never Seen Anything Like Threads
It’s been my job for over a decade now to analyze the competitive landscape of the tech industry, and I’ve simply never seen anything like what Thread...
Thu. 07/06 – Uh, Did Threads Just Win?
There’s only one story today. Threads. Threads. Threads. Has Threads already won? Links: Meta launches Instagram Threads in a direct challenge to Tw...
Wed. 07/05 – Twitter Chaos: The Real Fireworks
Chaos at Twitter emphatically did NOT take the 4th of July weekend off. Instagram’s Twitter clone looks like it’s going to take advantage of this chao...
(IHP) Amazon's Founding Part 2
Originally published April 2015 It’s part two of our Amazon founding story. How did Amazon come to completely dominate e-commerce? How did Jeff Bezos’...
(IHP) Amazon's Founding Part 1
Originally published February 2015. Finally, the long-promised foray into e-commerce, starting with… not the first… but practically the first… player...
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