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The Interviewer, Interviewed
http://bit.ly/1EM92Vf Hey guys, did an interview at Milken Global Conference last week with Business RockStars. Click here to check it out. http://bit.ly/1EM92Vf
My Home Invasion
By Dennis Kneale It happened to me around 1:30 p.m. on Thursday afternoon—a scary intruder entered my apartment, invading my sense of safety and privacy in my own home. And he refused to leave. At the start, it had the makings of a home invasion. By the finish, it was kind of sad, and the […]
Why Capitalism Will Save Us
“Capitalism hasn’t failed the poor. Government has failed the poor.” That’s one of the better lines in the opening moments of my recent speech, “In Defense of Capitalism,” at TEDxFultonStreet. It was a case of Dennis in the Lion’s Den: You can click here http://bit.ly/1n6kAea to get the full 13 minutes of me onstage, playing […]
The Author on Armageddon
Author and wealth advisor James Rickards, in his new book “The Death of Money,” tells us to brace for a financial meltown even worse than the one we just barely survived in 2008-09–and he insists it will come within five years or less. Rickards sees any number of threats that could be the trigger for […]
Break Up AT&T–Again!
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
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, Part 3
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 […]
Indiscriminate Destruction
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, […]
Aereo and The Supremes
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. […]