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The Twitter Lawsuit Could Be Very Bad for Elon Musk A long court battle would reveal just how duplicitous he’s been in this deal.
By Intelligencer Staff
How Elon Musk Could Be Disastrous for Twitter He is undoubtedly innovative, but he might help push the site in a (more) extremist direction.
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Who Could Benefit From a Snarled Chinese Supply Chain? COVID lockdowns have again exposed the problem with relying on distant countries for parts.
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Meta’s Virtual-Reality Arm Is a ‘Flaming Bag of Sh*t’ The company is running into several problems at once, as evidenced by its plummeting stock price.
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Will China Really Face a Corporate Reckoning in 2022? Scott Galloway and Kara Swisher are skeptical that much will change in big business’s relationship to an increasingly authoritarian state.
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Super-Apps Are Inevitable Get ready for the first $10 trillion tech company.
By Scott Galloway
The Reasoning Behind That Elon Musk Twitter Poll The Tesla CEO may have had an ulterior motive here.
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Why Zuckerberg’s Days As CEO May Be Numbered As damning information about the company keeps trickling out, something has to give.
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Facebook May Be Mendacious, But It’s Not Stupid A company name change could serve Mark Zuckerberg’s interests well.
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Why This Facebook Scandal Might, Might Just Be Different The company may have pissed off the wrong group of people this time around.
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Apple’s Supposed Loss in Court Was Actually a Win The price Tim Cook & Co. will have to pay in their battle against Epic Games is just not very significant.
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Will Twitter Boot the Taliban? With extremists taking control of Afghanistan, big tech faces a familiar quandary.
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Why Space Tourism Will Fall Flat It’s getting a lot of buzz, but the appeal already seems limited.
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The Internet Emerged Stronger Than Ever From the Pandemic It was one element of American infrastructure that worked very well.
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The Fight to Rein In Facebook Is Going to Be a Slow Grind A major loss in court was a reminder of how steep the climb really is.
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American Airlines Shouldn’t Have Been Bailed Out Despite getting billions in loans, the company furloughed thousands and is now contending with a worker shortage.
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Why the CEO-Worker Pay Gap Is Wider Than Ever A clubby corporate atmosphere is a major contributing cause.
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The Global Minimum Tax Is a Great Start Making companies pay more of their share is a big deal and a prime example of U.S.-Europe cooperation.
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Why Subscriptions May Be the Wave of the Future In an increasingly privacy-focused world, paying a premium may look more attractive.
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The SPAC Overcorrection A recently hot Wall Street trend is now suddenly out of fashion. But it still has its uses.
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AT&T’s Deal With Discovery Was Done Out of Weakness The sudden, expensive transaction is an admission that the company’s previous purchase of Time Warner was a disaster.
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Hosting SNL Was a Huge Win for Elon Musk The polarizing CEO managed to soften his image, and seemed to have a good time doing it.
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Verizon’s Media Business Never Made Any Sense Maybe AOL and Yahoo’s new buyer will know what to do with them.
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Will Apple’s Strike Against Facebook Really Do Much Damage? New iPhone privacy controls may threaten Mark Zuckerberg’s business, but customer inertia is a powerful thing.
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What Netflix’s Bad Quarter Means The company is facing production delays and much more competition, but betting against it has usually been unwise.
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Why Molecules Are the New Microchips Walter Isaacson on the tremendous upsides (and potential tremendous downsides) of the gene-editing revolution.
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Why Facebook Is the Most Vulnerable of the Tech Giants It’s sitting pretty right now, but faces structural problems its rivals don’t.
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Why Infrastructure Is Really an Investment in the Middle Class Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway chat about how President Biden’s plan would benefit people over corporations.
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Microsoft Buying Discord Would Be 2021’s Best Acquisition The tech giant is canny about the companies it wants to snap up.
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Is This the End of Business Travel As We Know It? Americans are getting on planes in bigger numbers, but one kind of trip may mostly be consigned to the past.
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How to Ensure the Robots Won’t Come for Your Job Kevin Roose thinks the key is to embrace the dimensions of humanity that automation isn’t close to reaching.
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Are Movie Theaters Completely Screwed? For an already troubled industry that has been battered by the pandemic, there may be a narrow path to survival.
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Why Is GameStop’s Stock Price Soaring Again? A frenzy driven by people who revel in market volatility.
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It’s Mark Versus Rupert Down Under Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss what the intense fight over online news in Australia means for the rest of the world.
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The Kindler, Gentler Twitter Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway think Donald Trump’s absence has already made the platform a healthier place.
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Who Really Benefited From the GameStop Bubble? Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss why a Wall Street frenzy resists simplistic narratives.
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Facebook’s ‘Rope-a-Dope’ Strategy on Trump Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss the company’s outsourcing of one of its most crucial decisions: whether to ban the former president.
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Policing Facebook Under a Biden Administration Talking to FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter about keeping big tech honest.
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Tech’s Crackdown on Extremists Isn’t a First Amendment Issue Far-right insurrectionists have tried to hide behind the Constitution. So have companies like Twitter.
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Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway’s Big 2021 Predictions The tech, business, and media trends that will define the year ahead.
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Where Does Lyft Go After Its Huge Win in California? After the passage of Prop 22, Lyft president John Zimmer discusses the future of ride-share with Pivot co-hosts Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway.
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Why Aren’t Facebook’s Emergency Measures in Place All the Time? “I think it’s backed itself in a corner where it has to censor now, or if it doesn’t, there is damage,” says Pivot co-host Kara Swisher.
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China Is Now the Amazon of Geopolitics Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss how the patient zero of the pandemic has emerged in a stronger economic position than ever.
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Will Tech’s Big Four Be Smart Enough to Help Break Themselves Up? Pivot’ s Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss what’s next for tech’s largest firms after a House Judiciary report called for their dismantlement.
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Is Sustainable Fashion More Than Just a Trend? Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss what it would take for an environmentally unfriendly industry to truly change course.
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Aug. 26, 2020
Google’s CEO Doesn’t Buy That Tech Giants Are Stifling Competition Sundar Pichai told Scott Galloway and Kara Swisher that plenty of smaller players are thriving too.
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Aug. 19, 2020
Is Uber ‘Ground Zero for Income Inequality?’ Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway talk to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.
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