capitalism
CHART OF THE DAY: What If Apple Transferred $1 Billion In Profits To Foxconn Workers? (AAPL)
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We saw this chart from Nic Musolino at ninety9, via Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism. It shows what would happen if Apple were to transfer $1 billion in profits to all Foxconn employees. As you can see, the average wage of a Foxconn worker would double, while Apple's profits...
Know Your Internet: What Is Pinterest and Why Should I Care?
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On the cold, crowded beach that is the Internet, another monster wave has been spotted on the horizon. This wave is called Pinterest and it looks like it could be -- or already is -- the Next Big Thing in social media. This week, Techcrunch blared, "Pinterest Reaches 10 Million...
MIT's 3D solar cells take cubism to new energy efficient heights
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The promise of free energy is an enticing one -- that's free as in renewable source, not cost. (This is capitalism, after all, someone's got to foot the bill.) Economic gripes aside, research outfits like M.I.T. are getting us one step closer to this cleaner fuel future with the...
Winter And The Wall
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In response to my PandoDaily post about Game of Thrones earlier, Trevor Gilbert tries his hand at parody. Not all bad, but a few quick problems: 1) You can buy an unlocked iPhone. 2) Even if you stole the iPhone, you wouldn’t actually be able to use it on...
Social Media's Small, Positive Role in Human Relationships
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It's just one factor in modern life that can increase connection in a world divided by the vagaries of capitalism, the disengagement of television, and the isolation of suburban sprawl....
AT&T Argues That More Competition Is Bad For You & Leads To Higher Prices
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Apparently AT&T-land is a place where basic economics doesn't apply. AT&T boss Randall Stephenson, still hurt from the rejection of his attempted merger with T-Mobile, is telling the world that greater competition means higher prices and less efficient markets. That this goes against nearly all understanding of economics seems like...
Intellectual Ventures' Nathan Mhyrvold defends patent trolling, calls tech industry immature
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Intellectual Ventures' CEO and founder Nathan Mhyrvold, who previously spent some 14 years at Microsoft Research, took the stage here at D10, and as predicted, his interview with Walt Mossberg was quite the invigorating one. You may know the man and his company for its vicious patent trolling --...
Intellectual Ventures' Nathan Myhrvold defends patent trolling, calls tech industry immature
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Intellectual Ventures' CEO and founder Nathan Myhrvold, who previously spent some 14 years at Microsoft Research, took the stage here at D10, and as predicted, his interview with Walt Mossberg was quite the invigorating one. You may know the man and his company for its vicious patent trolling --...
Google may sell its own tablets (perhaps made by Samsung, Asus) this summer
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt (pictured) said last year that the company planned to market its own Android tablets within the next six months, and now the supply chain is rumbling with rumors about who the manufacturer or manufacturers will be. The Wall Street Journal‘s anonymous sources point to both...
Meet the "collaborative" consumer
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The rise of social media is altering how people shop for everything from movies to food. But is that a social good? By Jill Allyn Peterson, contributor FORTUNE -- Collaborative consumption is a concept that can seemingly describe anything from Netflix to New York City's Park Slope Food Co-op. It...
Facebook Investor Peter Thiel Reveals The Two Areas He Would Short Right Now
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Hedge funder, VC investors, and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel just gave a presentation at a Credit Suisse conference. An attendee told us a few of the points he made: Thiel would be short Europe. He'd be short Emerging Market "crony capitalism." Thiel expects more deleveraging globally. He sees glean...
Wal-Mart chairman: How we came to embrace sustainability
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Rob Walton, Chairman of Wal-Mart Stores, and Peter Seligmann, CEO of Conservation International spoke to Fortune’s Andy Serwer at the magazine’s Brainstorm Green conference in Laguna Niguel, California. Below is an unedited transcript of their discussion: Wal-Mart chairman Rob Walton MODERATOR: Now, our last session before lunch I’d like to bring...
Can capitalism build a better search engine?
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In 2009, Seuk Weon Song of Seoul, Korea, realized the Internet had a fundamental flaw: Google. The dominant search engine for the majority of Internet users was giving websites top billing for all the wrong reasons — SEO, keyword stuffing, tricks that most users would never see. Instead, Song...
Here’s Two Reasons Not to Pay the Samwer Brothers’ Ransom
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I’ve talked to more than a few entrepreneurs lately who describe what the Samwer Brothers do– directly ripping a competing service off down to the name and then demanding to be purchased– as tantamount to demanding a ransom payment. The analogy isn’t perfect. What they do isn’t illegal and all...
Peter Thiel: Competition and Capitalism Are Antonyms
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Speaking at tonight’s PandoMonthly event at the Madrone Studios in San Francisco, PayPal founder, Facebook uberinvestor, and libertarian du jour Peter Thiel told an audience that competition and capitalism are not the same thing. Businesses can waste energy and resources competing like crazy instead of focusing on creating unique products...
Kickstarter Campaigns Are Now Hiring Publicists
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The ODOC iPhone and iPod dock. (kickstarter.com) As Kickstarter grows, now with multiple million-dollar and multi-million dollar projects, the insidious forces of capitalism that ruin all things pure and DIY are sneaking in. This morning Betabeat received our first press release about an unfunded Kickstarter campaign raising $70,000 for a...
Malcolm Gladwell on entrepreneurship: history will remember Bill Gates, forget Steve Jobs
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The two great icons of our industry, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, came up in a talk given by Malcolm Gladwell recently at the Toronto Public Library. In discussing capitalism and entrepreneurship, Gladwell makes the point that amorality — i.e. the absence of a moral compass in making business...
How Gordon Moore Invented the Talent Economy (and Changed The World)
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In 1957, Gordon Moore and the “Traitorous Eight” formed Fairchild Semiconductor and created the basis of what would become Silicon Valley. But despite the undisputed importance of the microchip, Fairchild’s biggest contribution might have more to do with how the company was started than what it produced. Little to anyone’s...
Seagate completes purchase LaCie in quest to become king of the hard drive hill
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The final price may end up being more than the initially proposed $186 million, but Seagate has successfully acquired a controlling share of LaCie stocks. The provisional price of €4.05 per share could increase to €4.17 if Seagate manages to accumulate 95 percent of the company's stocks in the...
Taking stock after the Facebook IPO | Mike Daisey
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As Facebook's public offering fizzled, so did the media's 'finance porn' hype. And perhaps a sense of just proportion was restoredOn Friday morning, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder, CEO, and majority shareholder, rang the Nasdaq opening bell and made history with one of the largest IPOs in years. It was exactly...
Satellites in the shed? TEDGlobal announces the new DIY revolution
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The latest edition of the ideas festival at Edinburgh was abuzz with the 'maker movement': a phenomenon that aims to take manufacturing out of factories and put it into people's homesOnce upon a time, if you said you were doing a spot of DIY, everyone would know you'd be doing...
Hacking Society: It's Time To Measure The Unmeasurable
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I was lucky enough to attend a small gathering of great thinkers put together by Union Square Ventures earlier this week for an event they called Hacking Society -- which was designed to be a one day open conversation on the economics and power of networks, and how to use...
Online ticket reselling firms: a sleazy brand of capitalism typical of our times | Paul Mills
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'Touts' create nothing of value, yet technology now allows them to make vast profits at the expense of fans, sport and the artsDispatches' recent investigation into the secondary ticket market – on which I worked as an undercover reporter – exposes a sleazy brand of capitalism that is typical of...
Back of the envelope math confirms Kauffman’s warning: VC returns are weak for LPs
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Last month the Kauffman Foundation released a lengthy and quite damning report that laid bare its experiences in dealing with and investing in various venture capital funds. Its results, which it made public, were not promising. From the report, the most important sentence details exactly how anemic the performance of...
PandoMonthly with Peter Thiel Recap: Startups, Competition, Capitalism, Bubbles
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Last night’s fireside chat with Peter Thiel was a resounding success, with comments flooding in that the talk was great, the network sublime, and the pizza delicious. We’ve posted the video here for your viewing pleasure, as well as a few key excerpts from the night. Thiel is well-known...
Leftist group claims responsibility for attack on Microsoft’s offices in Greece
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Image via The Guardian A report out from Reuters today indicates that a leftist militant group operating under the name of International Revolutionary Front has claimed responsibility for an attack on Microsoft’s offices in Athens. No one was injured in the attack, which occurred on Wednesday when a group of gun-wielding...
Robert Teitelman: Whatever Happened to Occupy Wall Street?
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Gone but not forgotten. Occupy Wall Street has disappeared from Zuccotti Park, save for occasional gatherings of shivering souls watched over by yellow-jacketed police, but it lingers on the edge of consciousness, in the now embedded cliché "we are the 99%" and, apparently in Davos, where all things go to...
The Other 99% of Entrepreneurs
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In my recent piece Reengineering Capitalism I highlighted a phenomenon that the global entrepreneurship ecosystem is paying very little attention to: Over 99% of entrepreneurs who seek funding get rejected. Yet, the entire world is focused on the 1% that is "fundable." The media, when pitched a startup story, is...
Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate!
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superapecommando writes "There's a fantastic little story in the Guardian today that says a US lobby group is trying to get the US government to consider open source as the equivalent to piracy. The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), an umbrella group for American publishing, software, film, television and music...
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