Internet Economy ⁽²⁵⁾

What is the key to allowing large companies to move fast? Build great platforms. I first heard this insight being persausively argued in Mark Zuckerberg's interview with John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly at Web 2.0 in 2010 - an age ago in internet time. In…

There was rather a poor article in the Observer today by John Naughton about Google and Facebook's recent buying sprees. It wasn't that there was anything particularly wrong with the analysis - it is just that it was lame, uncontentious and old hat. The main…

It seems as if Google Glass has travelled quite a long way along its hype cycle even though it has yet to be launched as a finished product. The product was shown initially at the I/O conference in June 2012 and the first beta products…

This morning's story in the Guardian about Yahoo's decision to move its European headquarters to Ireland is I think very significant. According to the Guardian, Home Secretary Theresa May summoned the company to a meeting to express the concerns of Scotland Yard that Yahoo will…

The old "job for life" certainties have gone but the laissez-faire approach which has replaced them is neither good for companies, nor good for employees argue Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh in the Harvard Business Review. The arrival of globalisation and the information…