Cybercrime plays right into Apple’s hands
Eleven Android apps leaked user data to a firm tied to the US defense industry. Apple's walled garden looks better every time one of these stories breaks.
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Columns and blog posts, written over the years on a variety of websites.
Apple pays to make itself look worse
Apple paid Analysis Group to publish a report arguing Spotify and Netflix beat Apple Music and Apple TV. The motive: soften the DMA before it lands.
Musk’s vendetta turned into a multi-billion Twitter stake
Elon Musk now owns 9.2% of Twitter — more than founder Jack Dorsey. Behind the purchase: a long feud with the SEC and a stated mission about free speech.
Google’s challenger now caught in Putin’s grip
Arkady Volozh built Yandex into Russia's Google, Uber, Spotify, and Amazon in one. Then the invasion of Ukraine undid twenty years of careful balance.
Brussels strikes back at the tech giants
After seven years, the EU has its Digital Markets Act. A smorgasbord of rules for Apple, Google, Amazon, and Meta — with some unintended winners.
YouTube is a tough dilemma for Putin
Russia may be closing in on YouTube next. But the service is both a megaphone for Kremlin propaganda and a rare lifeline for independent Russian journalism.
Russia is building its own internet — with its own rules
Russia is following China's path toward a closed internet. With the Runet project and the 2019 sovereign-internet law, the building blocks for a splinternet are in place.
The tech giants profited from the propaganda — now they want to limit it
YouTube, Meta and Twitter now want to limit Russian state media. But for years they made millions from the same propaganda channels they're trying to contain.
Could crypto be the oligarchs’ way out of sanctions?
Crypto is anonymous, fast and global — the perfect tool for Russian oligarchs trying to dodge sanctions. But new analytics tools are making transactions more traceable than many think.
Amazon’s hidden business — worth more than many countries’ GDP
Amazon's advertising business brings in SEK 290 billion a year — bigger than Twitter, Snapchat and Pinterest combined — and it has been hiding in plain sight.