the NYT added 276,000 net subscribers to its news products during the fourth quarter, finishing the year with 1.6 million. The Times called it “the single best quarter since 2011, the year the pay model launched.” I’m one of those subscribers. I have to say, the editorial culling and feeling of completeness when I scroll … Continue...

The biz has also just signed a deal to spend $400m a year on Google’s cloud hosting over the next five years – that’s $2bn in total for the Gmail giant. That’s an amazing chunk of spend for a hats on cats business. Hopefully, Ben Thompson’s theories that Snapchat is the new TV pan out. … Continue reading Snapchat spending...

The biz has also just signed a deal to spend $400m a year on Google’s cloud hosting over the next five years – that’s $2bn in total for the Gmail giant. That’s an amazing chunk of spend for a hats on cats business. Hopefully, Ben Thompson’s theories that Snapchat is the new TV pan out. … Continue reading Snapchat spending...

The primary challenge with this blog post on gross margins is to make it interesting enough for people to read. There’s a pretty good job of it, eventually focusing on tech and software companies. Link

The primary challenge with this blog post on gross margins is to make it interesting enough for people to read. There’s a pretty good job of it, eventually focusing on tech and software companies. Link

A few weeks back my book review of two “the robots are taking over” came out over on The New Stack. Here’s some responses, and also some highlights from a McKinsey piece on automation. Don’t call it “automation” From John Allspaw: There is much more to this topic. Nick Carr’s book, The Glass Cage, has...

A few weeks back my book review of two “the robots are taking over” came out over on The New Stack. Here’s some responses, and also some highlights from a McKinsey piece on automation. Don’t call it “automation” From John Allspaw: There is much more to this topic. Nick Carr’s book, The Glass Cage, has...

From The Attention Merchants: Any communication, Lippmann came to see, is potentially propagandistic, in the sense of propagating a view. For it presents one set of facts, or one perspective, fostering or weakening some “stereotype” held by the mind. It is fair to say, then, that any and all information that one consumes—pays attention to—will...

From The Attention Merchants: Any communication, Lippmann came to see, is potentially propagandistic, in the sense of propagating a view. For it presents one set of facts, or one perspective, fostering or weakening some “stereotype” held by the mind. It is fair to say, then, that any and all information that one consumes—pays attention to—will...

What's the best way to categorize and prioritize your IT projects? Splitting them up between systems of record (ERP) and systems of engagement (user-facing apps) is a popular mode of thinking, highly related to bi-modal IT. In this episode, guest Ian Andrews explains why this framing is a bad idea and offers a value-driven way of thinking about...

What's the best way to categorize and prioritize your IT projects? Splitting them up between systems of record (ERP) and systems of engagement (user-facing apps) is a popular mode of thinking, highly related to bi-modal IT. In this episode, guest Ian Andrews explains why this framing is a bad idea and offers a value-driven way of thinking about...

This week’s episode goes over several recent M&A deals in tech: AppDynamics, Trello, and Apiary. Plus, Matt Ray’s report from CostCo Australia. Check out the full show notes, subscribe, and/or listen below:

This week’s episode goes over several recent M&A deals in tech: AppDynamics, Trello, and Apiary. Plus, Matt Ray’s report from CostCo Australia. Check out the full show notes, subscribe, and/or listen below:

And just today, Bloomberg is reporting another executive order being drafted focused on work visas that tech companies depend on, which will have a big impact on how critical talent is recruited. According to the report, “companies would have to try to hire American first and if they recruit foreign workers, priority would be given …...

And just today, Bloomberg is reporting another executive order being drafted focused on work visas that tech companies depend on, which will have a big impact on how critical talent is recruited. According to the report, “companies would have to try to hire American first and if they recruit foreign workers, priority would be given …...