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The reliable way great conglomerates grew over time was by adding new products and buying new companies. IBM moved from mainframe to PCs.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Adding Buying Companies Great Grew Moved New New Products Over Products Reliable Time Way Ibm Pcs

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Broadcom is the descendent of a nearly 60-year-old unit of the original Hewlett-Packard. Semiconductor companies are like enterprise software companies: they don't die easily.

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Topics: Companies Die Easily Enterprise Like Nearly Original Semiconductor Software Unit

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The cloud, for a while more of a metaphor than a giant business, is re-ordering all sorts of industries.

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Topics: Business Cloud Giant Industries Metaphor More Sort Than While

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A 'free and open' Internet has been an article of faith in and around Mountain View, Menlo Park, and its environs for two decades.

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Topics: Around Article Been Decades Faith Free Internet Mountain Open Park Two View

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The rap against Tesla has always been of the 'yes, but' variety. Yes, it's a fine artisanal designer and manufacturer of electric cars, and its CEO is one of the few business leaders alive for whom the label 'visionary' isn't hyperbolic.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Against Alive Always Been Business Business Leaders Car Ceo Designer Electric Electric Cars Few Fine Label Leaders Manufacturer Rap Tesla Variety Visionary Whom Yes

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Tesla has humiliated established carmakers with its brilliant vision. But Detroit, Turin, Stuttgart, and so on have understood scale as well as capital allocation for decades. Such gargantuan tasks could yet humiliate Tesla.

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Topics: Allocation Brilliant Capital Could Decades Detroit Established Humiliated Scale Tasks Tesla Understood Vision Well

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Amazon has suffered quarters-long profit droughts. Alphabet has given its investors agita over profligate spending on non-core products. Microsoft's growth - if not its profit engine - stalled for years, causing its stock to idle, too.

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Topics: Alphabet Amazon Causing Engine Given Growth Idle Investors Microsoft Over Products Profit Spending Stock Suffered Too Years

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Dynamic pricing - charging more when goods and services are in high demand and short supply and less when the opposite is true - isn't new. Gasoline retailers, hoteliers, and airlines have been deploying the technique for years.

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Topics: Airlines Been Charging Demand Dynamic Gasoline Goods High Less More New Opposite Pricing Services Short Supply Technique True Years

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Amazon is pursuing something called Amazon Key, which lets its couriers unlock Prime customers' doors and deliver packages. It's pairing the service, which it plans to make available in 37 cities next month, with a camera so users will have intelligence inside and outside their homes, presumably boosting trust and lowering creepiness.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Amazon Available Camera Cities Customers Deliver Doors Homes Inside Intelligence Key Lets Lowering Make Month Next Outside Packages Plans Presumably Prime Pursuing Service Something Trust Unlock Users Which Will

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Amazon has a good record with customers, who are confident the retailer will give them the lowest price. Entering their home will be another thing altogether.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Altogether Amazon Another Confident Customers Entering Give Good Good Record Home Lowest Price Record Them Thing Who Will

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Nationality: American

Type: Editor

Born: Unknown

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