Clik here to view.
Apple vs. Amazon
The big 4 music companies (Sony/BMG, Universal, Warners and EMI) are trying to muscle Steve Jobs. They are pretty ham-handed about it and only the fact that the Bush Administration sent all but a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Obama Market
Barack & Michelle A few weeks ago, when this country was in full panic mode and hedge funds were having to dump huge amounts of good companies to cover redemptions, I bought the stocks of four...
View ArticleD.R.M.–R.I.P.
The announcement that Apple is eliminating digital rights management controls from its I Tunes service is the final nail in the coffin of technology based solutions to piracy. Every time Apple or...
View ArticleArt of the Long View 2
Ivan Seidenberg, CEO of Verizon talks to me about the Network of 2020.
View ArticleSteve Jobs and America
I’m lucky in that I get to work pretty closely with Apple at the USC Annenberg innovation Lab. So if I have anything to add to the reams of copy written this morning about Steve Jobs’ decision to step...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Steve Jobs
I will add but a few words to the millions that will be written in the next few days about Steve Jobs. At the Innovation Lab we try to inculcate the notion that you can’t be afraid. You can’t be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Financial Musings
Apple Store-Shanghai I have been known to make occasional predictions about our economy, and this quiet time between Christmas and New Years leads me to venture once again into these waters. In general...
View ArticleClik here to view.
WT-Friday
Johnny Manziel Johnny Humble There was a point about two hours into last night’s NFL Draft where the supremely arrogant Johnny Manziel seemed like the kid that no one wanted to pick for their kickball...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Digital Monopoly Capitalism
This week it was revealed that Amazon has been bullying the publishing house of Hachette to give it better terms. Among Amazon’s tactics against Hachette, some of which it has been employing for...
View Article