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What Comes After The Social Media Empires

Eric Entrepreneurship ,

The intense political battles over Facebook and the other giant social media companies mark the end of the empire-building phase of those companies’ history. Now they’re a mid-20th-century European power, agonizing over the inevitable loss of the colonies and trying to stomp out insurgencies. No longer finding new frontiers and markets to rule, they’re instead … Continue reading What Comes After The Social Media Empires

Tackling the Internet’s Central Villain: The Advertising Business

Eric Entrepreneurship ,

Pretend you are the lead detective on a hit new show, “CSI: Terrible Stuff on the Internet.” In the first episode, you set up one of those crazy walls plastered with headlines and headshots, looking for hidden connections between everything awful that’s been happening online recently. There’s a lot of dark stuff. In one corner, … Continue reading Tackling the Internet’s Central Villain: The Advertising Business