On April 10th and 11th, the Senate and House committees on the Judiciary and Commerce held a rare joint open hearing with Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook. The topic was Facebook’s handling of the data of US citizens. The peripheral, but more important matter, was use of Facebook data in election interference around the world. Very few commentators differ …
The things we want to believe
Ten years ago this week one of my best friends was dying from terminal gastric cancer. She was all of twenty-eight. The cancer came out of nowhere, a total blitzkrieg, went metastatic in a few weeks. She was diagnosed in February, gone by June. In May, as the blossoms hit the trees, the call went out to all of our …
Apples to apples with Facebook, Instagram and General Electric
On Monday, Facebook shocked the world by making an offer for Instagram, a web application that shares photos, for one billion dollars. This is notable for a few reasons: Instagram has only been around for a couple years The company only has 13 people Nobody can quite show how the company makes any money Yet the business press, doing about …
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