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Why a Big Tech Breakup Looks Better to Washington

Google, Facebook ... began to say the company was a bully.CreditElaine Thompson/Associated Press At the time, that looked like another triumph for Amazon. But in the months since, even some of those ... read more

How to Tame Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple

That goes quadruple for Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Amazon.com Inc., and Facebook Inc. On the upside ... Are these companies our friends, enemies or frenemies? Are they basically familiar ... read more

The six principles of Frugal Innovation – and why India can be a trendsetting practitioner and thought-leader in this space

The rise of the GAFA companies (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon), new players from China ... The company has set up the Design Barn as an independent design centre and incubator. ... read more

Recode Daily: Apple will wait till 2020 before releasing a 5G-capable iPhone

[Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg] Top stories from Recode Why Amazon is a ‘bully’ and Facebook and Google are ‘the enemies of independent thought.’ “It takes a while for us to realize exactly what they’ve ... read more

The anti-Facebook: Inside Pinterest's slow and quiet rise

"This is going to be the new Facebook ... isn't Amazon. It's Instagram," said Kathleen Smith, principal at Renaissance Capital, which manages IPO-focused exchange-traded funds. "All Instagram has to ... read more

Our Case Against Google and Facebook

We are a trusted and proud independent publication ... One is not forced to use Facebook or Amazon or Apple, but you can’t escape the iron grip of Google on the Internet. Through its control of the ... read more

Facebook and Google Must Ban Ads From Dark Money Groups

Users are left unable to know who is funding the ads they see or why they ... to through Facebook and Google properties. This approach relied upon data-driven targeting to administer jolts of ... read more

Facebook’s latest scandal has Washington’s full attention

I understand why other companies might want to work ... it hired Burston-Marsteller to write scaremongering stories about Google privacy policies. (Microsoft had hired it to do the same thing.) ... read more

Data Sheet—Why India Is the New Battleground Between Walmart and Amazon

Amazon already is pumping $5 billion into its hoped-for Indian ... For its part, Alibaba is an investor in Indian payments company Paytm. It’s a tangled web these enemies have woven. Competition in ... read more

We Hear You: Poor School Discipline, Hard-to-Fire Bureaucrats, Obstructive Democrats, and ‘Colluding’ Green Groups

About the bullying: Why didn’t the parents take their children out of ... The police cannot inspect your car parked in your driveway, but Amazon and Google can know everything about you. No more right ... read more

Amazon's $1 million secret

(Publishing sources confirmed that number, but Amazon would not.) At a time when independent ... enemies closer, by showering influential, articulate and potentially critical voices in the publishing ... read more

Will Amazon Offer The Best Digital Checking Account Ever?

And there is no reason to think that Amazon would ever want to become a bank. This could be why Amazon is looking for a big bank ... strategy for competing against Amazon, Apple, Square, Google, ... read more