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Small screens, big decisions: How mobile is forcing businesses to rethink...
GUEST: One of the biggest problems in software is feature bloat. Even sprightly new companies that base their competitive strategy on minimalism and ease of use can eventually fall prey to the same...
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Goodbye, SaaS — hello, Containers-as-a-Service
GUEST: When Salesforce’s Marc Benioff first started pitching on-demand CRM software, people thought he was insane and were convinced software-as-a-service would never work. Although we are now living...
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How tech is leading us back to a ‘village’-style life
GUEST: There has been a lot of discussion about how the acceleration of technology is decimating the middle class and traditional jobs. But there has been very little discussion of an emerging trend...
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Regulating the sharing economy: How Uber et al will soon face new rules
GUEST: Uber’s fifth year anniversary highlights that sharing economy services have rapidly become persistent and mainstream. Uber facilitates over one million rides a day. It’s estimated Airbnb will...
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How Twitter lost the stream wars
GUEST: Unlike other category-defining Internet companies, Twitter has struggled to meet both user growth metrics and Wall Street’s expectations. There are a lot of possible explanations for Twitter’s...
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If 87 unicorns fell in the Valley, would they make a sound?
GUEST: A lot of noise has been made about the inflated valuations of Aileen Lee’s unicorns and the amount of money they have raised. There are rumors that uber-unicorn Uber is now raising an additional...
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What Donald Trump’s hammer would do to U.S. tech
GUEST: Over the holidays, I heard Donald Trump giving his stump speech in South Carolina on my car radio. It strikes me that, for all we hear about Trump’s outlandish statements in the press, there’s...
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Bits are beating atoms: The Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon shuffle
GUEST: Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon have been dubbed the four horsemen of the tech industry. They are the biggest consumer companies and dominate the discussion through new initiatives such as...
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How Google’s AI paved the way for the next generation of bots
GUEST: Bots are fast becoming all the rage in tech, offering users the ability to use a messaging app to type in simple English requests to services like Uber. The user interface is just like texting a...
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Facebook Messenger’s ‘rich bubbles’ make dumb bots usable
GUEST: In the week since its launch, Facebook Messenger’s bot platform has seen a litany of complaints, with users arguing that it is tedious and unusable. The reality underlying the feedback is that...
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Why disrupting government pot policy is so much harder than the taxi commission
GUEST: The recent legalization of recreational marijuana in California and other states now totals to 45 states that have legalized some form of marijuana. However, the federal government has never...
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Why doesn’t Facebook simply filter out politics?
If Facebook was serious about keeping fake news from affecting elections, it would filter out political posts rather than monetize them.Read More
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