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Google's ability to pick winners and losers in the information world is a menace. These companies have the ability to determine which media companies are successful and which ones are failures. If I adopt a business plan that doesn't line up with Google's, then they're not going to reward me.

~Franklin Foer

Topics: Ability Adopt Business Companies Determine Failures Going Google Information Line Losers Me Media Menace Pick Plan Reward Successful Then Up Which Winners World

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If I'm reading my Facebook feed, it's using algorithms, procedures, and methods to give me what I want, or what it thinks that I want, or what suits its business plan.

~Franklin Foer

Topics: Business Facebook Feed Give Give Me Me Methods Plan Procedures Reading Suits Thinks Using Want

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Booksellers initially thought of Amazon as their best friend. They were coming in, and they were challenging Barnes and Noble, and Borders, which were the big, dominant corporations of the day, and that they would disrupt them and make them less powerful, but they could never envision that Amazon would overtake them all.

~Franklin Foer

Topics: Amazon Best Best Friend Big Borders Challenging Coming Corporations Could Day Disrupt Dominant Envision Friend Initially Less Make Never Noble Overtake Powerful Them Thought Were Which Would

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Apple was very important in terms of disrupting the music business and remaking the television business. They made it harder for people to make money on the things that they produce. In news, they've created Apple News, and they've tried to steer people towards information.

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Topics: Apple Business Created Harder Important Information Made Make Money Music Music Business News People Produce Steer Television Terms Things Towards Tried Very

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From the start, the promise of Jurgen Klinsmann as manager of the U.S. men's national team was revolution: gritty, plodding American soccer would give way to attacking flair; the parade of journeymen would end; an era of skilled stylists would begin.

~Franklin Foer

Topics: American Attacking Begin End Era Flair Give Gritty Manager Men National National Team Parade Promise Revolution Skilled Soccer Start Team Way Would

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Michael Bradley has the stuff of leadership; he works hard and can break up the opponent's play. However, that's not enough to justify his philanthropic attitude towards possession, the generous portion of balls that he contributes to his foes. His sloppiness constantly culminates in unnecessary goals.

~Franklin Foer

Topics: Attitude Balls Break Break Up Constantly Enough Foes Generous Goals Hard He His However Justify Leadership Michael Opponent Philanthropic Play Portion Possession Stuff Towards Unnecessary Up Works

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There's no reason why there needs to be one search engine or one social network or one store that we buy all of our crap from. It's possible to imagine a world in which there's actually competition.

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Topics: Actually Buy Competition Crap Engine Imagine Needs Network No Reason Our Possible Reason Search Search Engine Social Store Which Why World

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Who can complain about the price that Google is charging you? Or who can complain about Amazon's prices; they are simply lower than the competition's. And that's why I think we need to shift back to a more Brandeisian conception of antitrust, where we consider values other than simply efficiency and low prices.

~Franklin Foer

Topics: About Amazon Antitrust Back Charging Competition Complain Conception Consider Efficiency Google Low Lower More Need Other Price Prices Shift Simply Than Think Values Where Who Why You I Think

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I'm reading the way a lot of technology executives have decried 'gatekeepers' and 'traditional media,' and that one of the promises of 'new media' was that it would break the chokehold that old media companies had on public opinion.

~Franklin Foer

Topics: Break Companies Executives Gatekeepers Had Lot Media New New Media Old Opinion Promises Public Public Opinion Reading Technology Traditional Way Would

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Trump and Yanukovych have shared the same political brain: an operative named Paul Manafort.

~Franklin Foer

Topics: Brain Named Operative Paul Political Same Shared Trump

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 20th, 1974

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