The retail giant is always watching.
Amazon and Walmart’s rivalry is reshaping how we’ll buy everything in the future
The retail war is expanding to cloud computing, grocery delivery, and streaming video
Shopify and the Power of Platforms
It is all but impossible to beat an Aggregator head-on, as Walmart is trying to do with Amazon. The solution instead is to build a platform like Shopify.
Why Amazon Has No Profits (And Why It Works) | Andreessen Horowitz
Amazon has a tendency to polarize people. On one hand, there is the ruthless, relentless, ferociously efficient company that’s building the Sears Roebuck of the 21st Century. But on the other, there is the fact that almost 20 years after it was launched, it has yet to report a meaningful profit. This chart captures the...
America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning
The spillover from retailer debt will flow far and wide across the economy.
How does it feel to be watched at work all the time?
Many more firms are monitoring and analysing employee communications and behaviour. Does it work?
Who Is Watching You?
Companies and institutions track us almost indiscriminately. Is this the world we want to live in?
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.
Taxpayers spend about $2 billion annually on Medicaid for Amazon and Walmart employees
American taxpayers are spending billions every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.
Goodbye, Ivory Tower. Hello, Silicon Valley Candy Store. (Published 2016)
The promise of big data and big paychecks is drawing some of academia’s top economists to study consumer behavior for tech companies like Airbnb, Amazon and Uber.
How Surveillance Changes Behavior: A Restaurant Workers Case Study
How does surveillance affect behavior? A new study of employee monitoring software in restaurants suggests that when employees know their actions are being watched, it can significantly alter behavior — and increase sales.
Why Must You Pay Sales People Commissions? | Andreessen Horowitz
“I’d be a billionaire if I could get a dollar for all the bullshit I hear today” –Big Sean, The One I felt a little odd writing that title. It’s a little like asking “Why should you give engineers big monitors?” If you have to ask the question, then you probably won’t understand the answer....
Tech's Elite Hates Labor
I am furious. Though I try not to humour conspiracy theories, or suggest that there is any grand overture to what is usually an uncaring and cold world, but I cannot ignore what is a transparently-synchronized movement against the tech industry’s workforce.
How Big Tech Captured American Schools
Companies like Google and Microsoft have used their money, their might and their massive reach to influence nearly every step of the education supply chain.
Opinion | A.I. Companies Say They Aren’t Responsible for Their Unpredictable Products. Don’t Believe Them.
A.I. giants must operate under our laws.
Big Tech’s attention economy can be reformed. Here’s how.
The business model is doing irreparable harm to society. But there is an alternative, and we don’t need to destroy the tech giants to get there.
How Amazon’s Bottomless Appetite Became Corporate America’s Nightmare
CEOs may grumble about wages, shareholders, and Washington, but they should truly fear Jeff Bezos’s sprawling empire.
