About: William Holstein

There’s always a great deal of commentary about Apple. Much of it has centered recently on its dependence on sales of its iconic smart phones. But that’s only part of the problem: the company is stuck in a strategy that is bound to lose, as reflected in multiple articles today in the New York Times […]…

I seek to answer that question in my latest story for Compass magazine…

There’s news today, in this article in the New York Times, that a New York hedge fund consisting of “vulture capitalists” is backing a hostile takeover bid for Gannett, the publisher of USA Today and 100 other newspapers. This is a terrible idea. Journalists don’t often get involved in the business side, meaning talking about […]…

As this fine piece in the Washington Post makes abundantly clear, the New Media mavens who once appeared to be the future of journalism are running out of gas. Vice, Quartz, Buzzfeed, Mic and other Internet-based news organizations are not meeting their financial targets and there is a hint of consolidation in the air. By […]…

After all the build-up to the big meeting, the Americans said they would suspend further imposition of new tariffs for 90 days to give the Chinese time to come up with solutions to the deepening conflict? Ninety days might provide a few more sales of U.S. products to China and there could be some policy […]…