#TBT: Looking back at Google’s growth spurts, we begin with a small company in 1999 but then see 270 acquisitions and industry concentration.…
The Real Problem With Facebook’s Business Model
To understand the problem with Facebook’s ad revenue business model, we can just look at the role played by price as an incentive.…
Why We Need to Pay Attention to Wobbly Plates
Perhaps comparable to Alphabet’s (Google’s) X subsidiary, the old AT&T’s Bell Labs produced invention that became breakthrough technology.…
New Territory for Self-Driving Cars
Whereas the Model T brought us suburbia, highways and McDonald’s, the spillover from self-driving cars will also transform our lives at home and at work.…
A Closer Look at Self-Driving Cars
Demonstrated by its mapping needs, self-driving cars will unleash creative destruction through a long list of new technologies and social norms.…
Why Google Just Got a Parent Called Alphabet
By rebranding Google as Alphabet, it can have a clearly defined parent while Google, as an oligopoly, can keep its brand’s product differentiation.…