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Platformonomics TGIF #137: August 7, 2026
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Summer is flying by… News Useful Idiots, Fellow Travelers and Unregistered Foreign Agents: Oracle We’ve written at length about the financial risks of Oracle’s Hail Mary scramble…
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What is CitiGroup Smoking?
CitiGroup wrote to customers last week: By nearly all measures, Citi is one the best capitalized financial institutions in the world. Citi has robust and stable operating income, access to funding, strong levels of liquidity and the best talent in the business. After multiple government capital injections amounting to $45 billion and the latest government…
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Circling the Drain – Part 4
Silicon Alley Insider, a frequent source of morbid news about the plight of the New York Times, has morbid news about the local (Seattle) Times: In 2004, newspaper broker Dirks, Van Essen & Murray put the value of the company at $900 million. Two years later McClatchy purchased a 49.5% share of the paper from…
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A Little Sunshine
I’ve been meaning to post on Sun’s latest earnings, but have been delinquent. It is harder to poke fun in light of their thousands of pending job cuts, but my post speaks to the root cause of Sun’s predicament: software. I have often questioned Sun’s software strategy (here and here), going back to the fixation…
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Yo Decho
In my spare time (when I’m not busy blogging ;-), I am hanging out these days at Decho Corporation. The name is short for “digital echo”, which is meant to evoke that valuable and ever-growing body of personal, digital information we all accumulate and have reverberating through our lives (photos, documents, financial records, contacts, correspondence,…
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A Noble Cause
Addressing the dinosaur divide: Most of the nearly two billion children in the developing world have inadequate access to dinosaurs. Some receive no paleontology training at all. One in three has never even seen a dinosaur in person. UPDATE: I am a little embarrassed by this post. First, the title should have been just “Closing…