Brian Boyle
writer/reporter/editor | currently: @thedailyupside | past: @sfgate, @techmeme, @latimesopinion | also seen in: @slate, @vice, @milwaukeemag | 🏳️🌈
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thedailyupside.com | Brian Boyle
There’s no place like home for the Big Four accounting firms. After deeming the markets either too small, risky, or unprofitable, PricewaterhouseCoopers last month severed ties with member firms in more than a dozen sub-Saharan African nations, according to a Financial Times report. It’s just the latest sign of the Big Four accounting firms’ growing skepticism toward maintaining a global presence.
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thedailyupside.com | Brian Boyle
As ever, the ad industry is serving as the canary in the macroeconomic coal mine. While still chirping for now, industry executives told The New York Times on Wednesday that they’re expecting pressures from the trade war to spark a pullback in ad spending by sometime this summer. The warnings come as the industry adapts to seismic shifts in technology — which means it may just have some new tricks up its sleeve. Last year, the media and ad industry found plenty of reason for optimism.
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thedailyupside.com | Brian Boyle
Winning the streaming wars is not enough. Now, Netflix wants to be in the big leagues with names like Apple, Amazon, and Nvidia. With Hollywood conquered, Netflix has a new goal: reaching a $1 trillion market cap by 2030, according to a Wall Street Journal report. In other words: It wants to leave its streaming war co-combatants in the dust.
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thedailyupside.com | Brian Boyle
You’d think that Mark Zuckerberg, of all people, would know your words can always come back to haunt you in the age of social media. Monday marked the opening day of the Federal Trade Commission’s landmark antitrust trial alleging that Meta, the company he founded as Facebook, built an illegal social media monopoly via its $1 billion acquisition of Instagram in 2012 and its $19 billion WhatsApp purchase in 2014.
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thedailyupside.com | Brian Boyle
If bitcoin is “digital gold,” investors seem to prefer the real-world variety. So far this year, the price of the precious metal has climbed about 22% while the cryptocurrency has fallen about 10%. So if it’s not digital gold, what is bitcoin exactly? True to its history, gold has been treated like a safe-haven asset as investors flee the sagging stock market and weakening US dollar, climbing to and holding at about $3,200 per ounce.
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RT @oiioxford: Dr @KeeganMcB spoke to @Hamilbug at @TheDailyUpside on a potential ban on the export of AI software from the US to China. h…
This one’s easy: brainwashing billionaire scions is the most effective way to combat corporate monopolies
Like what is the political message in INCEPTION (2010) lol
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