by Tom | Oct 16, 2012 | Business, Government
That’s pretty hard-hitting (PDF) from the St Louis Fed: The case against patents can be summarized briefly: there is no empirical evidence that they serve to increase innovation and productivity, unless the latter is identified with the number of patents awarded...
by Tom | Oct 10, 2012 | Business, Reading
This sounds like a very positive outcome for music. Obviously the big artists still get all the money, but to get meaningful monies to a few thousand artists is pretty good. For over two thousand artists Pandora will pay over $10,000 dollars each over the next 12...
by Tom | Oct 9, 2012 | Business, Government, Reading
You think about how much value Tim Berners-Lee created and how he didnt actually capture very much of it. It was captured by companies like Google, Apple, Twitter, and Facebook. You also think about the other extreme, where companies like Goldman Sachs managed to...
by Tom | Sep 18, 2012 | Business, Reading
Much as I am against the cult of the CEO, there is a lot of interest in McK’s series Leading in the 21st century. The themes that resonated for me were: The need to build corporate resilience (or its flip side, pragmatism, e.g. in getting Indian companies...
by Tom | Sep 18, 2012 | Business, General
Evidence that advertising and journalism are decoupling? I hope so. Newspaper Advertising Collapse – Business Insider.
by Tom | Sep 5, 2012 | Business, Tech
Twitter Certified Products Program – Open for Businessplus the gradual crack down on any third party clients is a clear sign that Twitter is now about monetizing eyeballs rather than the users. Sad.
