Dennis Kneale

Break Up AT&T–Again!

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AT&T’s bold bid of $49 billion  in cash and stock to acquire DirecTV would lash together the two distribution giants to contend with the mammoth media combo of Comcast and Time Warner Cable, but here’s what it really means for AT&T: It is time to stage another massive break-up. AT&T should split itself into two […]

Surfing the Next Wave, Part 2

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Steve Case says tech is on the brink of a Third Wave. The first wave took 15 years as millions of people got connected online, enabled by the likes of AOL and Cisco. The second wave came as companies like Salesforce.com and Google built products on top of that spreading Internet platform. The Third Wave […]

Surfing the Next Wave

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First of three parts In the next wave of the technology revolution, will your company or industry adapt to survive and even thrive—or get disrupted and swept away? Three smart guys have some keen insights on what it takes to surf the wave, and why so many incumbent giants fail. Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, AOL […]

Surfing the Next Wave, Part 3

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And now to bring it all home… THEME #4: What’s an Incumbent to Do? Steve Case speaks from experience: “The mistake is not that companies don’t have a sense of where the world is going,” he says, “it’s that they don’t put enough resources against that initiative and the best people against that initiative.” He […]

Three Smart Guys… and Me

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As Vivek Wadhwa just tweeted, it was indeed a riveting panel yesterday at the Milken Global Conference. Here’s the entire session, skim it for some great insights from three very smart guys: Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, AOL Time Warner survivor Steve Case, and academic soothsayer Vivek himself. Among the highlights: Benioff says we always overestimate […]

A New Message of Hope

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—As the rich, the powerful and the merely brilliant gather here this week for the renowned Milken Global Conference, a surprising message of hope may emerge: That America’s best days are far from over, that a new revolution in technology is at hand—bigger and more sweeping and also more destructive than anything before […]

Indiscriminate Destruction

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Ah creative destruction, ain’t it grand?  We have seen this economic force, championed almost a centruy ago by the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter, chew up dozens if not hundreds of industries and shake up, realign or otherwise wipe out millions of jobs in recent decades. The Internet wave and Moore’s Law of computing power have accelerated, […]

So How am I Doin’?

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Ten Rules for How to be Unemployed: http://bit.ly/1i2hdyE Ten More Rules: http://bit.ly/1neiIRF Hey guys.  Now in Week 11 of Unemployment, I have posted 20 rules to live by, thus far.  Here’s an update on how I have fared in following that first batch of 10 Rules for How to be Unemployed. Rule #1:  Stick to […]

Aereo and The Supremes

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At 11 o’clock this morning the nine Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are set to hear arguments in a case that could determine whether content remains king—or loses a cornerstone of  copyright protection, toppling an economic underpinning of the entire entertainment business. The case is American Broadcasting Cos. vs. Aereo Inc.  […]

How to be Jobless, Part 2

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Hi guys, I now am in Week 10 of my first-ever stint among The Unemployed.  And it could run quite a while longer. Recent data show more than two million people over age 50 now are unemployed.  Among workers 55 and older, half have been jobless for six months or more, compared with only 37% […]