Is The Metaverse Really Our Near Future?
Facebook was designed to make real connections, under your real name, with other people. Now it invites us to leave the real world and escape into a construct of its own invention.
WhatsApp is a Threat to Society. Here’s How to Fix It.
More than 1.5 billion people use WhatsApp, and the platform's astonishing scale and speed have become vehicles for dangerous ammunition.
A New Dawn from a Trust-less Web
One of the world’s top blockchain engineers explains how the London-based company she runs, Parity Technologies, aims to bring trust back to the internet.
The Facebook-WhatsApp Lesson: Privacy Protection Necessary for Innovation
WhatsApp founder Jam Koum's breakup with Facebook speaks to how the internet economy could evolve, how competition and innovation could be encouraged, if regulators simply do their job.
Google’s Six Values for Business Leadership in an Age of Reimagination
The most important characteristic of successful business leaders today is the ability to embrace, inspire, and manage change. At Google, we’ve had 15 years of experience with these changes first hand. In my role as...
How Big Can Zuckerberg Make the Net?
How much difference can one company make? Mark Zuckerberg appears to be setting out to test that question with his immodest goal of connecting everyone on the planet to the Internet. While many companies talk...
How WhatsApp Can Succeed in China
I haven’t written about Facebook in a while, mostly because the company hasn’t made any concrete moves into China lately despite previous assertions that it would like to enter the market. But the company’s purchase...
Zuckerberg’s Vision for Building a Benevolent Internet
Once your Internet company has amassed over 1 billion subscribers around the world, what’s your next move? The most obvious answer is to figure out how to leverage your extraordinary user base to generate revenue....
Could WhatsApp Possibly Be Worth $19 Billion?
The past year or so have seen a headlong rush around the world towards simple messaging applications. Facebook's purchase of WhatsApp shows it cannot ignore the rise not only of that service but also of...
