I’ve been watching Li Yuan since she was at the Wall Street Journal. Now with the New York Times in Hong Kong, she has emerged as one of the smartest commentators on U.S-Chinese tech tensions. In this piece today, she says Chinese companies such as Huawei–which is in the line of fire from the American […]…
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Apple’s Real Problem: It’s Trapped In a Losing Competitive and Manufacturing Strategy
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 […]…
Can Auto Manufacturers Customize A Car For You?
I seek to answer that question in my latest story for Compass magazine…
This Hedge Fund Must Be Stopped–No Purchase of Gannett
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 […]…
What Happened to The “New Media?”
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 […]…
