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Tweet The Cupertino giant today announced it will be making a contribution of $ 350 billion to the U.S. economy over the next five years, creating 20,000 jobs and pay $ 38 billion in taxes to repatriate Read more… Neowin

Tweet A few news stories make it clear that the venerable automobile industry is going to wind up sliced, diced, and consumed by the new economics and technologies of the web, and in short order. Ford has announced that it’s working with Amazon to integrate the Alexa virtual assistant service that runs on the Echo smart speaker and Fire TV devices, so that we can turn the on the lights in our…

Tweet The real problem for the National Security Agency’s data-collection programs might not be citizen outrage, but something far more powerful — corporate outrage. We have an economy increasingly dependent on web and mobile services (broadly defined as “the cloud”), and it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to put up barriers or conditions on using them. For consumers, it’s bad for privacy. For companies that sell cloud services,…

Tweet The internet and mobile economies have spawned the collaborative consumption business model, but the payments systems we have in place haven’t kept up. A company like eBay, AirBnB, Uber and or Lyft isn’t just a single business entity but a big collection of small networked entrepreneurs, and for every single credit card transaction on their websites there are a lot of different people that need to get paid. Online…

Tweet It’s been 12 years since the internet bubble burst, and in the ensuing fallout, it has become apparent that the IPO market has been fundamentally damaged. Thanks to a lack of national confidence and lingering fears and confusion about the potential risks of IPOs, far too many good companies – ones that could supply much needed jobs to the U.S. economy – are unnecessarily paying the price. While addressing…