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How Google Beat The FTC

The FTC didn't magically come to the conclusion that Google was in the right: "For 19 months, Google pressed its case with antitrust regulators investigating the company. Working relentlessly behind the scenes, executives made frequent flights to Washington, laying out their legal arguments and shrewdly applying lessons learned from Microsoft’s bruising antitrust battle in the 1990s."

Matt Buchanan Matt Buchanan

How The iPhone Changed AT&T

Besides crushing its network under a stampede of data: Says CEO Randall Stephenson, the iPhone "changed everything. It changed our capital allocation. It changed how we thought about spectrum. It changed how we thought about engineering and designing networks. Suddenly you go from thinking that 40,000 cell sites are sufficient to thinking it’s going to have to be multiples of that."

Matt Buchanan Matt Buchanan

Even Googlers Hate Google+

A somewhat damning look at Google+ from inside Google: It was CEO Larry Page's idea to force users to sign up for a Google+ account, and "Google executives persuaded him not to pursue the strategy, fearing it would irritate Google search users, the people say." And more Google+ is coming, not less.

Matt Buchanan Matt Buchanan

Tweet Everything, Save Publishing

Want to tweet an article, but don't know precisely which sentences you can quote inside of a tweet's 140-character limit? Paul Ford's Save Publishing bookmarklet finds them for you. It now occupies the only other permanent space in my bookmarks bar, next to "read later."

Matt Buchanan Matt Buchanan

Tumblr Math

Add these up: 170 million visitors and 18 billion pageviews per month, an $800 million valuation equaling $13 million in revenue for all of 2012. Operational costs were $25 million. By comparison, the Infinity Blade iOS gaming franchise has made over $30 million.

Matt Buchanan Matt Buchanan

A Better Life At Foxconn

The New Foxconn: "As summer turned to autumn and then winter, Ms. Pu began to sign up for Foxconn's newly offered courses in knitting and sketching. At 25 and unmarried, she already felt old. But she decided that she should view her high-backed chair as a sign."

Matt Buchanan Matt Buchanan
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