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“Now Best Buy is Even Losing out to Mom and Pop Chains,” Business Insider, August 21, 2012. Further decay in Best Buy’s prospects led several publications to revisit Larry’s January 2012 prediction of the chain’s demise. See also The Daily Beast. |
Category Archives: Media
Reason/Spectrum Crunch
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“Users Experience Symptoms of Spectrum Crunch,” Reason, August 7, 2012. Reason’s Steven Titch cites Larry on recent efforts by the federal government to back out of plans to free up spectrum for mobile broadband users. |
CNET/Yahoo-Facebook
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“Yahoo v Facebook Enters the Annals as a Big Waste of Money” , CNET News.com, July 6, 2012. Larry speaks with CNET about the end of Yahoo’s lawsuit against Facebook amid a growing tech war over patents. |
HBR/Privacy
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“Customer Intelligence, Privacy, and the ‘Creepy Factor'” Harvard Business Review, August 15, 2012. In his inaugural post for HBR’s blog, Larry looks at how novel uses of information stimulate a visceral reaction in consumers, one that unfortunately tempts legislators and regulators to take action. What to do instead? Usually, nothing. |
Forbes/WCIT
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“Why is the UN Trying to Take Over the Internet?” Forbes, August 9, 2012. For Forbes, Larry looks at recent developments in the lead-up to this year’s rewrite of the leading international telecommunications policy. Constituents with very different agendas are teaming up to use the effort to shift critical control over the Internet and its architecture to an obscure U.N. agency that can’t help but make things worse. |
Forbes/GIGU
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“One One Year Anniversary, Gig.U Delivers Impressive Results” Forbes, August 6, 2012. Larry takes a close look at Gig.U, a consortium of university towns working to break the 1 gigabit Internet barrier. What communities are willing to give up reveals a great deal of what holds back infrastructure deployment. Hint: it isn’t money. |
