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Live Blog From Techonomy 2012 – Sunday, Nov. 11
Welcome to the first day of Techonomy 2012, a conference about how the exponential pace of technology process makes possible a new world. We are gathering a diverse group of expert voices for a...
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The Internet’s Fantastic Four: How Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple Rule...
Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple: four Internet companies that are, arguably, the best of the best. They’re global goliaths that leave little room for competitors in a fast-growing online world. At...
View ArticleHugo Sarrazin at Techonomy 2012: Social is an Enterprise Feature
Hugo Sarrazin, Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, speaks at Techonomy 2012 in Tucson, Ariz. (Transcription by www.realtimetranscription.com.) Kirkpatrick: Next we have another great McKinsey...
View ArticleLive Blog From Techonomy 2012 – Tuesday, Nov. 12
Welcome to the third and final day of Techonomy 2012, a conference about how the exponential pace of technology process makes possible a new world. We are gathering a diverse group of expert voices for...
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Read All About It: The Facebook Effect
The Techonomy 2012 conference outside of Tucson, Ariz. wrapped up with a session featuring two Facebook team members: Sam Lessin, Project Manager, and David Fischer, VP of Business and Marketing...
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Techonomy 2012: The Internet’s Fantastic Four
It’s an epic battle for control of the Net, and even of commerce and communications. We’ve never before seen the like of any of these companies: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. Together, they form...
View ArticleTechonomy 2012: The Facebook Effect, Continued
One company has captivated the world’s attention in 2012, for better or ill. With all the attention on its stock, many lose sight of the central role Facebook plays in social and economic life...
View ArticleThe Facebook Effect, Continued (Highlights)
One company has captivated the world’s attention in 2012, for better or ill. With all the attention on its stock, many lose sight of the central role Facebook plays in social and economic life...
View ArticleThe Internet’s Fantastic Four (Highlights)
It’s an epic battle for control of the Net, and even of commerce and communications. We’ve never before seen the like of any of these companies: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. Together, they form...
View ArticleTechonomy 2010-12: Highlights
A who’s who of Techonomy participants—including Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, Steve Case, Sean Parker, and Jack Dorsey—join Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick in a series of highlights from our 2010-12...
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Welcome to Little Big Inc.
Small companies now take on global giants, as tech changes the balance of power. You’ve got a great idea. You’ve assembled a team of four or five people, all enthusiastic, all raring to go. That’s it....
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Ford to Crowdsource Fuel-Efficiency App
As part of a campaign to help drivers learn more about how to optimize their fuel usage, Ford announced its Personalized Fuel-Efficiency App Challenge at last week’s New York International Auto Show....
View ArticleWho Says the Internet Isn’t Making Life Better?
A standard trope these days is that we in the middle class have been slogging through a couple of decades of woe. Wages are stagnant. Our standard of living isn’t improving. The grand forces of our...
View ArticleKirkpatrick: Facebook Wants to Be There When You Turn Your Phone On
Techonomy CEO David Kirkpatrick appeared on Bloomberg TV yesterday to comment on Facebook’s ambitions to amplify its presence in the mobile market. Kirkpatrick dispelled rumors that Facebook intends to...
View ArticleDoes Facebook Want to Make Us Closer or More Separate?
A thoughtful article at Wired.com by Evan Selinger asks the right questions about the TV ads for the new Facebook Home app for Android phones. How appropriate is the kind of self-absorbed distraction...
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Mining Big Data for Programming Talent
(Image via Shutterstock) Finding and recruiting top programmers remains a huge challenge for fast-growth companies like Square, Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Will Big Data come to their rescue?...
View ArticleWhy Zuckerberg Wants Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Washington appears best suited to screwing up good ideas, even when more or less everyone there agrees it’s a good idea. The Fiscal Times here examines the politics and details surrounding...
View ArticleCapturing the Value of Technology—in Economic Terms
When you look at economic statistics like G.D.P. and productivity, what gets overlooked? According to a New York Times column by Eduardo Porter, these key measures fail to capture the value people get...
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Alibaba Tamps Down Valuation Expectations
Having let the markets get pumped up with huge expectations for its upcoming mega IPO, e-commerce leader Alibaba now appears to be trying to temper some of those high hopes in the run-up to an...
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Did Obama Just Destroy the U.S. Internet Industry?
News about the National Security Agency’s PRISM program and its privileged access to internal user data at nine U.S. Internet companies has unleashed a torrent of justified anger and hand-wringing....
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