Thursday May 9, 2024

Tricky

 It’s a tricky marketing challenge to start charging for something you offered for free.  Consider Google Photos.    It has announced its unlimited, no-charge storage for photos is being ended.  It will start requiring payment after 15 gigabytes with different subscription levels based on the amount of capacity one buys.  Of course, the company is going […]

Troubling

 The Trump Administration has swept the civilian ranks of Pentagon officials and installed loyalists in the last two days.  That should trouble American citizens.  It is unclear what Trump can and will do with yes-men in charge of airmen, soldiers and sailors.  Trump has one concern — to overturn the results of the election — […]

Not Free

 Jack Ma, the billionaire entrepreneur of China has learned the hard way that free speech is not free in the communist country.  His verbal attack on the banking system was met by a suspension of a multi-billion IPO for his Ant Group.  Ma learned that authorities strike back painfully if one talks out of turn.  […]

$200 Million

 That’s the number gig-economy companies spent in California to prevent independent workers from becoming full-time employees.  It was expensive marketing but the companies said they were fighting for their lives.  They won overwhelmingly.  One must ask how laborers’ rights fit into employment that defines the gig environment.  It is not clear and we probably won’t know […]

Hard To Ignore

 Election day is hard to ignore, especially this one.  We have a President who has tarred America’s reputation the world over and spun thousands of lies about nearly everything.  There is a chance he will be re-elected.  We have a challenger who is empathetic, an experienced pol, a survivor of tragedies and a dedicated family […]