France’s Greatest Strength Might Just Be Leaving France

April 9, 2014 Leave a comment

France’s Greatest Strength Might Just Be Leaving France

Posted 17 hours ago by Romain Dillet (@romaindillet)

“The attraction of the American revolution transported me suddenly to my place. I felt myself tranquil only when sailing between the continent whose powers I had braved.”
—Lafayette, Letter to the Bailli de Ploën. Read more of this post

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Amazon’s core “strength” may actually be its biggest weakness

April 9, 2014 Leave a comment

Amazon’s core “strength” may actually be its biggest weakness

BY KEVIN KELLEHER 
ON MARCH 25, 2014

A lot of things seem to be going Amazon’s way these days. It boasts the best-selling e-reader, two-thirds of the ebook market, a foothold in the tablet market, a growing library of video titles (including home-brewed programs), and, possibly in the future, a smartphone and a music-subscription service. Not to mention hundreds of thousands of Amazon Web Services customers. Read more of this post

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Newly unsealed documents show Steve Jobs’ brutal response after getting a Google employee fired

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Newly unsealed documents show Steve Jobs’ brutal response after getting a Google employee fired

BY MARK AMES 
ON MARCH 25, 2014

In early March, 2007, as Google was expanding fast and furiously, one of its recruiters from the “Google.com Engineering” group made a career-ending mistake: She cold-contacted an Apple engineer by email, violating the secret and illegal non-solicitation compact that her boss, Eric Schmidt, had agreed with Apple’s Steve Jobs. Read more of this post

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With Oculus purchase, Facebook chokes VR innovation in the womb

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With Oculus purchase, Facebook chokes VR innovation in the womb

BY JAMES ROBINSON 
ON MARCH 25, 2014

For most of us, there’s no good news in Facebook’s $2 billion purchase of Oculus. Mark Zuckerberg can crow all he wants about buying up tomorrow’s platforms, Oculus executives and investors can preen – entirely justifiably – over their glorious financial exit, but the rest of us are left watching the same horror show on repeat. Tech giants opening up their checkbook and buying the competition, willing to gut entire markets before they’ve even got started. Read more of this post

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