Technology

Internet is for data. Aside from emailing people, the whole purpose of using the Internet is to sift through data and find the piece of data you want: the lowest price, the funniest video, the best movie. So a service provider, the more…

Tesla is a completely speculative, junk-rated venture. Investors in the company are betting on Elon Musk's celebrity as a forward-thinker, hoping he can ramp up production and achieve significant economies of scale

We're in the midst of another technology bubble. And Tesla has benefitted greatly. When this bubble pops, where will Tesla be?

I am using Tesla as an example here more than anything. I am not about to delve into Tesla's loss-making operations and make a case against the stock specifically. But I do want to highlight the 'bubble' that Tesla represents.

There are two ways to explain persistently high corporate profit margins. One interpretation is about inequity, and implicitly about corporatism masquerading as liberty. And the other is about network effects creating an age of winner take…

Could public indignation at the Facebook profile harvesting scandal lead to new regulation that could impede the value of some tech-based advertising models? Will it lead to a consumer backlash that slows the growth of the companies…

First, the recent post-Facebook scandal market volatility has seen Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google follow Facebook down. Second, Donald Trump is acting more boldly and more aggressively now on his economic agenda, on trade and on foreign…

Lots of links on Facebook. Also see notes on Tesla and GE.

In 2012, to protect user privacy, the FTC mandated regulatory controls at Facebook that it has not made. Therefore, Facebook faces potential fines and greater regulatory oversight. This will be expensive, and could potentially cause…

Some of the best performing stocks in the US are the large Internet-centric technology stocks like Facebook. But Facebook's data breach represents a threat to them from regulators