Can we get content moderation to work, or is it as much of a dead end as virus scanning? Do we need to change the whole model of social instead?
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Retailers have sold private label products for a century or more. Is something different when Amazon does it?
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When software eats the world, the questions that matter stop being software questions.
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People talk a lot about AWS as Amazon’s cash cow, but the ad business buried in the back of the accounts might be just as profitable.
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We’ve been arguing about newspaper business models for a decade, and none of the questions have changed, but now things are heating up. Should internet platforms ‘pay for news content’, and is this a competition problem, or is this really a tax on links, and a subsidy?
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Consumers spent $120bn on Shopify in 2020 - double the figure for 2019 and over 40% of Amazon’s competing business. What does that tell us about competing with Amazon? Problems that were already solved? And most of all, about brands and consumers going direct?
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What happens when rent, returns and advertising blur into one? What would it mean to do ecommerce that doesn’t scale?
Read MoreFacebook has 2bn users posting 100bn times a day. SMS had 20-25bn messages a day. So is this a publisher? A platform? A telco? No. We don’t really know what we think about speech online, nor how to think about it.
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What does it mean when Google, Microsoft or Apple turn your whole company into a feature? When do we let a tech giant build and when do we call the anti-trust lawyers? And what does that mean for Spotify, Yelp or printing in landscape?
Read MoreComputing has always moved forwards in jumps of scale, but smartphones reach everyone on earth, so what’s the next jump? AV and VR? Cloud, machine learning and crypto? Or is that the wrong model to use?
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