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Platformonomics TGIF #122: April 3, 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 I made another appearance on the Telco in 20 podcast, where we talked about hundreds of billions of HyperCAPEX spend and asked what ever happened to the…
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2019 Blog Retrospective
I know I’m supposed to do this post in December, but here’s a better-late-than-never 2019 retrospective for this blog. It was my most prolific year of blogging since 2012, with 11 posts comprised of 12,103 words (25+ pages), and set new records for traffic (and hopefully readership). Key takeaways for me: clicks very much follow…
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The Platformonomics Holiday Shopping Guide 2019
As the holiday season approaches, here are a few great gift ideas from companies Platformonomics has the privilege of working with: Land Care Robot (Directed Machines) Want to one-up Elon Musk for the holidays? Sure, his new Cybertruck can pull an F-150 truck, but so can your Land Care Robot. What’s more, the Land Care…
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Dining Preferences of the Cloud and Open Source: Who Eats Who?
TL;DR: If the cloud didn’t eat Hadoop Inc., Pivotal and Red Hat, what explains their diminished prospects? Marc Andresseesssen’s “software is eating the world” has given rise to an entire technological food chain, with a succession that includes “open source is eating software”, “cloud is eating open source,” and the most recent supposition that “multi-cloud…
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Press Releases We’d Like to See: Facebook Announces Political Advertising Blackout for 2020 US Presidential Election
Press Releases We’d Like to See: Facebook Announces Political Advertising Blackout for 2020 US Presidential Election MENLO PARK, Calif. – September 9, 2019 – Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today announced the company will not accept political advertising in the United States between February 17, 2020 (President’s Day) and November 3, 2020 (Election Day). The moratorium on advertising for political candidates…
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Press Releases From the Future: HCL Technologies to Acquire Red Hat Software Products from IBM for $340 Million
HCL Technologies to Acquire Red Hat Software Products from IBM for $340 Million ARMONK, N.Y. and NOIDA, India, August 2, 2022 — IBM and HCL Technologies (HCL) today announced a definitive agreement under which HCL will acquire select IBM Red Hat software products for $340 million. The transaction is expected to close by mid-2023, subject…