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Why big tech should fear Europe (Economist, The)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 03/21/2019 - 14:13The digital divide remains stubbornly wide
Internet inclusion is not guaranteed. Because of the Internet’s power and reach in our lives, uneven access can compound existing social and economic inequalities. The latest edition of the Inclusive Internet Index reveals that progress on closing the digital divide between low-income countries and the rest of the world has stalled, reflecting slow growth in internet connections and 4G network coverage in the past year.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s obsession with the press (Economist, The)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 01/24/2019 - 11:03The next capitalist revolution: Market power lies behind many economic ills. Time to restore competition (Economist, The)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 11/15/2018 - 11:49Why startups are leaving Silicon Valley (Economist, The)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 08/30/2018 - 12:50Chinese and US tech giants go at it in emerging markets (Economist, The)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 07/08/2018 - 20:32The meaning of the Vision Fund: Succeed or fail, Masayoshi Son is changing the world of technology investing (Economist, The)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 05/10/2018 - 11:11Facebook faces a reputational meltdown (Economist, The)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 03/22/2018 - 13:56The battle for digital supremacy
“Desigend by Apple in California. Assembled in China”. For the past decade the words embossed on the back of iPhones have served as shorthand for the technological bargain between the world’s two biggest economies: America supplies the brains and China the brawn. Not any more. China’s world-class tech giants, Alibaba and Tencent, have market values of around $500 billion, rivalling Facebook’s. China has the largest online-payments market. Its equipment is being exported across the world. It has the fastest supercomputer.