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Platformonomics TGIF #124: April 17, 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 No newsletter next week. News CAPEX Clues: After the Press Release I’m impressed only 40% of data center builds are behind schedule. That number is likely to…
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Dino Watch: IBM’s Q2 Results
Image via Flickr Our favorite “technology” company IBM “beat” the number last week and saw its stock pop on Thursday after announcing earnings. Bloomberg cheered the results: “IBM Raises Annual Forecast After Earnings Top Analyst Estimates” International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), the largest computer-services company, topped estimates with its second-quarter earnings and raised its…
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Enter The Matrix: Microsoft’s Reorg
The new super-matrixed structure doubles down on “integrated innovation”, a model that has historically been tantalizingly just out of grasp from an execution standpoint. The new theory is shorter product cycles will mitigate failures of alignment across teams. The pendulum swings to functional away from divisions that had clear customer focus and segmentation (ironically, Steven…
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Iceland and Bitcoin: A Cryptocurrency Cascade
It isn’t just me advocating Iceland adopt Bitcoin – we’re on the verge of a veritable movement here. But I can’t imagine they’re the only place thinking about it…
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A Cretaceous Checkpoint
Image via Flickr In our last installment of doing tomorrow’s technological paleontology today, I laid out my case for why IBM’s future looks different than the last decade because financial engineering isn’t the kind of engineering necessary to make the transition to the cloud. For my efforts, I got a lot of financially-oriented pushback that…
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Press Releases We’d Like to See: Iceland Embraces the Bitcoin Economy
Continuing our series of monetary-themed press releases we’d like to see (but probably won’t): Iceland Embraces the Bitcoin EconomyUnveils comprehensive program for 21st century financial leadership REYKJAVIK, Iceland — May 1, 2013 — The Republic of Iceland today announced a comprehensive program to make Iceland the leading nation state in the emerging Bitcoin economy. “Bitcoin…