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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 fa... read more

Taxes, Socialism, And Class War

But at least the tech sector does sometimes produce great innovations, e.g. Apple’s iPhone, Google, Amazon ... op-ed on Facebook’s business model that his critics probably thought tone ... read more

How Amazon could loosen Google’s iron grip on Android

Hardware vendors that are frustrated with the restrictions on Honeycomb availability or Google's bullying ... Amazon will eventually launch its own Android tablet. In a recent editorial, Business Insi... read more

The death of journalism?

THE MEDIA is buzzing about the purchase of the Washington Post by Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com. Why? What's the importance ... We know many of their names--Google, Apple, Amazon, Micr... read more

Criteo: Healthy Growth Company In A Fierce Environment

The goal of this article is to explain why Criteo is an attractive investment at ... of digital advertising against well established companies such as Google (GOOG), Amazon (AMZN) or Facebook (FB). Th... read more

On the Censorship of Michael Hoffman’s Books by Amazon

Personally, I have no doubt concerning why my books were censored ... status of one of the world’s wealthiest persons, and Amazon’s total value was beginning to approach that of Apple and Google, Amaz... read more

Silicon Valley and the Quest for a Utopian Workplace

Facebook, Amazon ... once thought great. We have been put to it, however, to discover the true principles which should govern their relations. From one point of view, they were partners in a common en... read more

Alexa and the Dawn of So-What Surveillance

“Whenever I would come into the room, I would ask it crazy questions like ‘Why do you exist ... most powerful companies in the world—tech goliaths like Amazon, Google and Facebook—may build the techno... read more

Digital Domesday: surveillance threatens us with a new serfdom

As the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles noted at the time: It is shameful to tell, though he thought it no shame ... These were Amazon (1994) in online retailing, Google and Yahoo (1995) in search and email, an... read more

Why "Settled Law" Isn't Really Settled -- and Why That's Often a Good Thing

Ilya Somin is Professor of Law at George Mason University and the author of Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter and The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London and t... read more

Revisiting Orwell to Understand our Times

As Orwell notes, “the whole aim of Newspeak and Doublethink is to narrow the range of thought.” Political correctness has the same goal and that’s why its adherents ... media and consumer giants, Goog... read more

Twitch CEO Emmett Shear Talks Live Streaming, Sarcasm, and Amazon Web Services

The reason why we did that was I thought ... you sell to Amazon? We sold because at some level it was a good offer and because Amazon is one of the very few tech companies that can credibly say that “ ... read more