The Internet Economy

Coopting Disruption

Our economy is dominated by five aging tech giants – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft. In the last twenty years, no company has commercialized a new

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more

A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

Why Do the Biggest Companies Keep Getting Bigger? It’s How They Spend on Tech

The secret of success for Amazon, Google and Microsoft is how much they invest in their own technology.

Investing in what moves the internet forward | The Mozilla Blog

Firefox is the only major browser not backed by a billionaire and our independence shapes everything we build. This independence allows us to prioritize bu

Google, Facebook, and Amazon benefit from an outdated definition of “monopoly”

A few weeks ago, Italy fined Apple and Samsung €15 million for the “planned obsolescence” of their smartphones. The antitrust regulators allege that both companies pushed users to download software that slowed phone performance, forcing customers to buy replacement phones sooner.

Dare Obasanjo (@carnage4life@mas.to)

The decline of the advertising supported internet is inevitable yet sad. Tech has been unique in being an equalizer. A poor Nigerian kid, a techie in the US or Jeff Bezos all used the same apps and websites. Now many charge $5-$15 per month creating a huge financial divide. Online advertising is a progressive form of taxation as the rich, mostly US-based consumers who buy goods & services from ads subsidized the internet for everyone else. We now live in the flat tax version of the internet.

Reclaim the internet: Mozilla’s rebrand for the next era of tech | The Mozilla Blog

Mozilla isn’t just another tech company — we’re a global crew of activists, technologists and builders, all working to keep the internet free, op

Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft come together to create the Partnership on AI | TechCrunch

The world's largest technology companies hold the keys to some of the largest databases on our planet. Much like goods and coins before it, data is

Why I’m Saying Goodbye to Apple, Google and Microsoft

I’m done sending my money and data to corporations I don’t trust

Scaling Engineering Teams: Lessons from Google, Facebook, and Netflix

After spending over a decade in engineering leadership roles at some of the world’s most chaotic innovation factories—Google, Facebook, and Netflix—I’ve learned one universal truth: scaling e…

Big Tech’s A.I. Spending Is Accelerating (Again)

Despite the risk of a bubble, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon plan to spend billions more on artificial intelligence than they already do.

Break Up the Tech Giants? No, Just Level the Field

Facebook, Google and Uber should be held to the same rules as their older rivals.

A decentralized web would give power back to the people online | TechCrunch

Recently, Google launched a video calling tool (yes, another one). Google Hangouts has been sidelined to Enterprise, and Google Duo is supposed to be the

Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era

The grand idealism of the free and open internet might be over for now, but in its place falls a more practical mindset. Just like Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs are entering their “Hard Tech” era, the people building web alternatives are also entering their Post-Naive Era. Here are the names to know.

Data centers are facing an image problem. The tech industry is spending millions to rebrand them.

Through television ads and online campaigns, industry-backed groups are promising jobs, clean energy, and lower electricity bills.