Summer is almost here. And soon, we will be wearing the Polo Shirt. Maybe it is time you learn about the history of the Polo Shirt. Right? Did IBM Watson overpromise and underdeliver on AI healthca… | Continue reading
I have to admit, it is great to see the initial public offerings of various technology companies come to market and create a level of excitement. Lyft, Uber, and Pinterest are hogging the headlines… | Continue reading
Now that Lyft is a publicly traded company, and Uber has filed its S-1, it is becoming pretty obvious that Google is the big winner in the on-demand mobility sweepstakes. In 2017, it invested $500 … | Continue reading
Wired recently chronicled the rise of robocalls. In the piece, you learn that Americans got “47.8 billion robocalls in 2018” or roughly “200 per year for every adult,” and in 2019, it looks like th… | Continue reading
It was quite an astonishing week for science and technology, in large part because we got to see the first photo of a black hole—something that has fascinated us humans for so long. The photo was a… | Continue reading
In my previous post, I urged you all to take a moment and make some price comparisons before buying from Amazon, which is no longer the cheapest or the best place to buy stuff. Other options are eq… | Continue reading
All that IPO optimism—in addition to ongoing Facebook shenanigans—keep us a wee bit distracted from the dark clouds that are gathering on the horizon. Earlier this week, the Semiconductor Industry … | Continue reading
Bloomberg noticed that Amazon’s retail growth is slowing, especially as brick-and-mortar merchants have stepped up their digital game. Even Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos acknowledged that in his latest sha… | Continue reading
After a decade of service, it is time for my good old 29-inch Rimowa suitcase to go in for a much needed retrofit. It will be a while before it comes back from Germany, and it will also set me back… | Continue reading
The Parsi Sweet Tooth: If you don’t know about the Parsees, then you should learn more about them. They are a very unique people and part of the demographic quilt that is India. They do so many thi… | Continue reading
My friend Kevin Scott has a unique vantage point from which to speak about the future of software engineering. He is a very gifted and accomplished man who serves as CTO at Microsoft, but his caree… | Continue reading
The corporate control of our future is being won in state capitols, not in Washington, as the deeply researched work in the Copy, Paste & Legislate series from The Center for Public Integrity s… | Continue reading
Long ago, in a time before the iPad, YouTube and even the Internet, we got our entertainment came from stories told to us in books or by our parents and grandparents. Some kids were lucky enough to… | Continue reading
A few weeks ago, I had a chance to converse with one my heroes, (philosopher, author, and journalist) Kevin Kelly and his partner in Cool Tools, Mark Frauenfelder, part of the Boing Boing crew. The… | Continue reading
San Francisco is a small town. Stand still long enough and you are likely to bump into a billionaire or two, standing in line for a coffee. Or simply sitting in the lobby of a hotel like Brian Ches… | Continue reading
From time to time, I try and go offline and take a break from the internet. Instead of going offline, I am going to be off social media for a few days. My Instagram usage has already dropped down d… | Continue reading
Over the past few weeks, the world has been talking about folding smartphones. Bigger screens, thicker devices, and $2,000 price tags have not deterred the excitement around these new devices. Ther… | Continue reading
The threat to America is this: we have abandoned our core philosophy. Our first principle of this nation as a meritocracy, a free-market economy, where competition drives economic decision-making. … | Continue reading
Nostalgia has come to the Internet, and it is too little, too late. Nostalgia is not what defines the future. Sub-10 year-olds won’t give a damn about the nostalgia-Internet. Unfortunately, t… | Continue reading
“We definitely don’t want a society where there’s a camera in everyone’s living room watching the content of those conversations.” Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook, whose company se… | Continue reading
Just as slow food is good for digestion, and thus the body, slow tech is good for the soul. Today, most of my life is digital and connected. It is not a surprise that I find joy in the time-slowing… | Continue reading
This selections are from weekly newsletter, that is shared with subscribers over the weekend. “It doesn’t matter how many people hate your brand as long as enough people love it.” Phil Knight, Nike… | Continue reading
A few months back, when visiting Portland, Maine, I got a chance to spend time with Rebecca Lily and Johnny Patience, two talented photographers and visual artists. They have eschewed the obvious a… | Continue reading
This past weekend, I visited Yosemite National Park, California to officiate the wedding of my friend Tim and his bride, Lauren. The wedding ceremony was held outside in a snow-covered meadow. I ha… | Continue reading
06.05 AM: Why did Amazon buy Eero? Because every smart home needs good wifi, writes Stacey Higginbotham. 06.00 AM: A Twitter thread of unpopular opinions about climate policy and the GreenNewDeal b… | Continue reading
Kevin Rose is someone I’ve known for quite a while. I think it was 11 years ago we first worked together when he was starting out as an intern. The promise I saw in him at that time has undoubtedly… | Continue reading
12.09 PM: “Turning free samples into new targeted ads plays to Amazon’s strength as a trusted delivery service of everyday goods.” Axios. If you are Google, you need to be very wo… | Continue reading
I am one of the 29 million Americans who is afflicted Type 2 Diabetes. And like most (if not all), for past 12 years, I have been living with a constant ritual of pricking my fingers with a sm… | Continue reading
8:17 AM: TechCrunch should hire my friend Julie Zerbo, who is an amazing investigative fashion writer and should be an exciting person to tackle the “direct to consumer” brand boom in a non-sycopha… | Continue reading
Twitter, yesterday, was lit up with charges of plagiarism against Jill Abramson, former editor in chief of The New York Times. She has a new book about media — actually, a book complaining about te… | Continue reading
Twitter, yesterday, was lit up with charges of plagiarism against Jill Abramson, former editor in chief of The New York Times. She has a new book about media — actually, a book complaining about te… | Continue reading
A recurring nightmare was my wake up call today. It is as if my mind puts out red alerts in the form of a horror flick—wake up and get to work. And since 2 am, I have been doing that, slowly typing… | Continue reading
Given its dominance of the e-commerce and cloud services, Amazon, not surprisingly, had a great fourth quarter of 2018. I was checking out their earnings release this morning, and one thing that st… | Continue reading
There were too many of us doing the same job. When I started reporting in 2006 on fresh new companies like Facebook and Twitter, it was a novelty beat that sometimes came across to my senior collea… | Continue reading
Here are five articles I read this week that I think are worth your time. Musk versus Bezos: The Battle of Space Billionaires. If you look beyond the headline, then you get a pretty good understand… | Continue reading
No matter what Jack Dorsey (CEO, Twitter) says, he is going to come under criticism. While some of it is justified, but a lot of hyperventilation in the media is because the press is in compensator… | Continue reading
Five years is a long time, so it isn’t a surprise that Ello might have faded from the minds of the people. And after being an initial skeptic, I have quietly become an occasional visitor R… | Continue reading
Everyone focuses on their mission. So many focus on their tagline as a way to define themselves. A very few companies think about themselves from the vantage point of values. When it comes to busin… | Continue reading
It is raining outside. I can hear its soft patter outside my window. I like rains. They make me nostalgic, especially on a Sunday, my day for catching up with the week ahead. Past few days have bee… | Continue reading
Here are some good early morning reads worth your time. How is it that identical twins are getting many different results from five ancestry DNA test kits? The answer might be in the algorithms tha… | Continue reading
After a bit of a hiatus, I am back with a new episode of my occasional podcast series, The Om Show. In this first episode for 2019, I chat with Primer CEO Sean Gourley and MetaMarkets founder Micha… | Continue reading
Sade, has been part of the soundtrack of my grownup life and at every significant moment, there has been a song of hers in the background. She turned sixty today, but she is timeless, and so is her… | Continue reading
A 3.7 magnitude earthquake shook my apartment building hard, woke me up and just like that I ended up making coffee and getting on the Internet. And long before you know it, I was watching a video … | Continue reading
Did you know that Google+ is shutting down? I hadn’t, and frankly, I don’t care, because I had stopped thinking about Google+ a long time ago. But Gideon Rosenblatt, who worked on Googl… | Continue reading
Founders work hard to turn their dreams into reality. Sometimes, success — or at least other people’s idea of your success — looks so close that you can taste the spoils. Happy en… | Continue reading
Chad Dickerson, formerly an executive at Yahoo and later CTO/CEO of Etsy, in a powerful piece shares his story and elaborates why flat data in online databases doesn’t truly define us —… | Continue reading
The Consumer Electronics Show 2019 (CES 2019) is finally over, and most reports indicate that it was a bit of a damp squib. The show comes against the backdrop of an Appleocalypse and a sharp slowd… | Continue reading
It is an astonishing story about how China is playing a villainous role in the non-Chinese Internet. The writers point to a new tool called the Great Cannon and how it helped “channeling the… | Continue reading