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Before Steve Jobs, there was Edwin Land

Polaroid's story is entwined with that of rival Kodak. Both were cutting-edge technology companies that expended considerable creative and managerial energy on battling each other over patents. And both ended up in bankruptcy. Continue reading

Posted on March 8, 2013 4:11 PM




For activists, IP is it

A better understanding of how to value intellectual property among even smaller investors is driving a new focus on tech companies Continue reading

Posted on February 29, 2012 2:30 PM




Big Bang, now and then

Before we rush back to a past wrapped in nostalgia, we need to recall all the reasons we were so eager to undertake reform in the first place. And we need to understand how little we know of what we're doing. Continue reading

Posted on October 26, 2011 12:44 PM




Occupy media

The media has spent as much time covering the coverage as it has reporting on the protests. Consider the takedown of snarky Erin Burnett, cable TV personality. Seriously. Continue reading

Posted on October 14, 2011 1:00 PM




Friedman, Feynman and their master narratives

Donning the laurel crown for overheated punditry, the Times' Thomas Friedman has famously become the progenitor of a style of thinking and writing that leans heavily on the rhetorical trope -- 'the earth is flat' or 'the earth is hot' -- to explain complex, ambiguous and profoundly contingent trends. Continue reading

Posted on October 12, 2011 12:15 PM




Steve Jobs, secular prophet

Jobs was a visionary; in fact, he could actually see the future. No, like some Faustian figure, he was actually creating the future: he lived out there, which must have been disorienting. Continue reading

Posted on October 10, 2011 3:05 PM




Apple's acquisition strategy likely to stay modest

'There is a culture at Apple that Steve created a long time ago, which is a best of product, best of breed that's created here,' says Habib Kairouz, managing partner, Rho Capital Partners, in this video interview about potential Apple acquisitions. Continue reading

Posted on October 6, 2011 5:46 PM




Steve Jobs and stagnation theories

For all of Steve Jobs' efforts and talents, and all the products sold by Apple, there remains what Tyler Cowen calls 'The Great Stagnation' thesis that confronts us. Why are we in a funk? Continue reading

Posted on October 6, 2011 1:04 PM




One more take on Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was then -- in that overused expression he helped usher into business -- a revolutionary. Maybe he's the only one. Continue reading

Posted on August 26, 2011 12:15 PM




Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO

Steve Jobs has retired as CEO of Apple Inc., leaving investors to contend with speculation and a possibly shaky stock price. In pre-market trading, shares were only down about 2% as the broader market looked mixed after unemployment claims increased... Continue reading

Posted on August 25, 2011 9:10 AM




Blame it on the whiz kids

Car guy Bob Lutz first sold the notion that bean counters have brought America down. But it took Time magazine to run it off the road. Continue reading

Posted on July 22, 2011 1:00 PM




Thomas Friedman discovers reinvention again

Thomas Friedman in The New York Times tells us all, once again, that we all have to imitate Silicon Valley and plunge into the free agent, reinvention, entrepreneurial lifestyle. Continue reading

Posted on July 13, 2011 12:45 PM




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