Tag: business
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Congenica is not the sort of company a lot of people follow closely. The Cambridge-based start-up specialises in genomics, an area most of us struggle to understand. https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/chinas-takeover-of-western-capitalism/ more ›
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HONG KONG — China’s long-form video platforms are stepping up acquisitions of popular media content and producing their own shows to lure back viewers from short-video apps. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Media-Entertainment/Alibaba-Baidu-and-Tencent-learn-Netflix-lessons-in-content-fight2 more ›
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Underlying Waze’s journey is a little-known approach to product thinking, super powerful data network effects, and a guiding north star metric. This is Waze’s insider story, as told by their… more ›
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Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read on… Last week, the Washington, D.C.… more ›
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The creation of a metaverse — an online world that fulfills real-world desires and activities — was always inevitable. From sci-fi novels to Hollywood blockbusters, we have been well prepared… more ›
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Global shortages of many goods reflect the disruption of the pandemic combined with decades of companies limiting their inventories. In the story of how the modern world was constructed, Toyota… more ›
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Welcome to the 2,273 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since last Monday! Join 51,163 smart, curious folks by subscribing here: We planned this sponsorship weeks ago, before… more ›
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As cars become computers with wheels, Apple is joining other tech companies in eyeing the $5 trillion auto market https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-and-the-end-of-the-car-as-we-know-it-11621656010 more ›
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Weijian Shan understands the delicate U.S.-China dynamic as well as anyone. He was born in China, and his life was upended during the Cultural Revolution, when he was sent off… more ›
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Until recently, the highly lucrative role of celebrity ambassador has largely been reserved for a particular type of person. Luxury brands tended to pick actresses and singers who are household… more ›