This is the second part to my look into the maturing innovation technology industry. Part 1 here, in which I freaked out about Uber, and the general lack of maturity in innovation leadership. In the time between that first post a few weeks ago and now, of course Uber has been through more. Driverless car crashed in […]
What has Wikileaks done now? Yesterday (7 March, 2017), Wikileaks released an absolute treasure trove of CIA secret misdeeds, misinformation, technical knowhow, surveillance capability and much more juicy stuff. I’m not going to go into the politics, rights/wrongs or even whether it’s real or not (independent experts are leaning to ‘yes’). There are many others […]
The Uber circus has been in full swing lately. The resignation of a high level executive due to lack of disclosure around sexual harrassment, the disturbing picture of an embedded harrassment culture there, to the quite powerful lawsuit that Google’s Waymo is swinging against Uber, to the video of their CEO Travis Kalanick acting like […]
It hasn’t been a good election for Facebook. Some months ago they faced accusations of bias against Conservatives, then got caught spreading fake news after they replaced their human editors with an algorithm. And after the results, were accused of having (possibly unduly) influenced the result by being an easy way to spread fake news and generate […]
Last Friday, it was revealed that Facebook had fired its “Trending Editors” team, who looked after its trending news feed (kinda obvious from the name?), and had only recently been in the news under accusations of bias from the Conservatives in the US. It also comes fairly soon after Facebook rolled out its sections and […]
This is about to be the most overused meme on the Interweb After a big ole investigation, in which the European Union threatened to claim back from Apple their ‘owed’ taxes to the tune of billions, they went ahead and did it. Well, technically Ireland has been charged with recovering the bill as they allowed Apple the […]
On 10 August, Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi from Apple talked to Fast Company in a very interesting interview. I discuss some of the strategic timing of the interview here, but this article is a focus on the Maps part of the discussion, where the two talk about the underestimation, and cost, of doing Maps well. It’s a […]
