Yes, that’s right.  Google’s security chief for its government products plays Russian Roulette with nail guns on national television.  And–according to his Wikipedia bio, “Raven has been linked to Heather Sweet (AKA Dita Von Teese) when they went to University High School together and Glamor Model Carmen Electra whom they met after his Nail Gun […]

MTP readers will recall the absurd post from Silicon Valley private equity firm YCombinator entitled “Kill Hollywood” which was a request for startups to…Kill Hollywood (see also New York Times “Investment Firm Y Combinator Goes on Offensive Against Hollywood“). Yes, bring on the digital chickenfeed.  And in a race for gratification between Citizen Kane and digital chickenfeed, we […]

 MTP readers will recall that one of the perks of being a Google insider is that you get to park your private jet at Moffett Field, the NASA installation near the headquarters of the Leviathan of Mountain View, a/k/a the Googleplex.  This is the kind of thing you get to do when your Google stock gets […]

“And if they could talk to one another, don’t you think they’d suppose that the names they used applied to the things they see passing before them?” The Allegory of the Cave by Plato, line 515b2. Reading a company’s SEC filings is always an interesting enterprise, particularly because you know that whatever they say is […]

Both the European Commission, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Senate Antitrust Subcommittee are working at bringing an antitrust complaint against Google for a variety of reasons.  The EC and the FTC are pursuing both similar but different rationales due to differences in the antitrust laws of Europe and the United States.  Antitrust is a complex body […]

Joaquín Almunia, Vice President of the European Commission responsible for Competition Policy, issued a statement today that is instructive for antitrust regulators around the world.  It boils down to this:  We know what you’re doing to abuse the privilege of operating in the free market–specifically our free market. You have special responsibilities for being a dominant firm and […]

If you’ve ever tried to communicate with Google, Facebook or any of the other “scale” online companies, you have experienced the phenomenon of leaderless revolution–nobody answers the phone.  But thanks to David Lazarus of the LA Times, we have a much better idea of why this is and an idea about what can be done […]