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Folks have been making noises for a while that Amazon is anti-competitive in a variety of ways. I don’t disagree with the overall sentiment, but there’s one particular aspect of how AWS advantages its own offerings that I don’t see folks talking about–and strikes me as particularly egregious.
More on Bing, particularly the Sydney personality undergirding it: interacting with Sydney has made me completely rethink what conversational AI is important for.
Analyzing predictors of Google abandoning products; predicting future shutdowns
In 1995 Netscape partnered with Sun Microsystems to create interactive websites . Famously Brendan Eich spent only 10 days to create the first version of JavaScript - a dynamic programming language with a roughly syntactic lineage from Sun’s Java language. As a result of this partnership Sun held the trademark…
Fortune 500 firms with strong growth profiles are more prone to “cooking the books” than smaller, struggling companies, according to a recent study led by WSU sociologist Jennifer Schwartz.
When design leads to friendship, and that friendship leads back to design, magic happens. This is the story of how an intern and her…
Kwindla Hultman Kramer [https://twitter.com/kwindla] is the founder of Daily.co [http://Daily.co] (W16). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When we started Daily.co [http://Daily.co], we thought we were only targeting the US market. Our plan was to get traction at home and…
Telegram 3.0 introduces Bot Platform — free, open and super easy to use
This New York Times article gets a lot wrong, and both podcast listeners and podcast producers should be clear on Apple’s actual role in podcasting today and what, exactly, big producers are asking for.
As we have talked about repeatedly in this blog, we at Cloudflare are not fans of the behavior of patent trolls. They prey upon innovative companies using overly-broad patents in an attempt to bleed settlements out of their targets.
Freeways were supposed to be easy. What happened?
Here are the 30+ questions in the matchmaking tool that Singapore is deploying on government workers.
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Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a …
The Long Arc of History Bends Towards Social Democracy
I first read about the “ blue ocean ” strategy in a story (probably in Edge magazine ) about the Nintendo Wii . While its competitors were fighting for supremacy in the game-console market by producing ever-more-powerful hardware capable of high-definition visuals, Nintendo chose not to join this fight. The pursuit of…
The landscape of OpenStreetMap-based mobile apps
A multi billion dollar processed foods company called "Impossible Foods" is suing IMPOSSIBLE ® and seeking to cancel our federally registered trademarks. Here's our response.
> _**Industrial**_ > > _adj. (sense 3a)_ > > Of or relating to productive work, trade, or manufacture, esp.
Advice for first-time managers from someone who learned it the hard way, cleaned it up, and passed it on.
In October, OpenAI secured a 4 billion dollar revolving credit facility from J.P. Morgan and several other banks. I was surprised when I heard this because OpenAI is a young company with no earnings. Shouldn't all their capital come from investors? Let's run some numbers.
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Placing an order and capturing a payment are really different actions. I also learned a lot in a few days.
Search engines have been using structured data for years to understand the information on web pages and provide richer search results. Today...
I remember back in the mid 90s, I used to say with some pride that I had not lost money on any of my VC investments. Then one day, someone told me “then you are not taking enough risk.” I ended that streak of not losing money on VC investments in the late 90s in […]
