Peter Kafka
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Chief Correspondent at Business Insider
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1 week ago |
businessinsider.com | Brad Davis |Peter Kafka |Henry Blodget
I write lots of depressing stories about the fate of media companies. Let's switch it up: Did you hear the one about the publisher who figured out how to find tens of thousands of new, paying subscribers? That publisher is Wired, Condé Nast's tech site (and print magazine). And the strategy Wired used to find new subscribers is both super-simple and very hard to pull off: Become a source for news lots of people want, and can't find anywhere else.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Peter Kafka
Tech CEOs pivoted hard, and publicly, toward Donald Trump this year. Sometimes, it looks like they're not getting anything for their time and money. But it's more accurate to say Trump is helping them on some things — and fighting them on others. Remember when all those tech CEOs lined up to give Donald Trump money and take photos with him? They're not getting much for their efforts: Trump has frequently snubbed tech, or worse, since taking office.
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2 weeks ago |
businessinsider.com | Steven Tweedie |Jordan Hart |Peter Kafka |Henry Blodget
The popular game Fortnite is back on the US App Store after a 5-year legal battle with Apple, and Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney tells Business Insider it represents a "priceless" win for app makers everywhere. While the game quickly shot to the top of the App Store's games rankings less than 24 hours after launching, its reappearance was years in the making — and costly for Epic, which makes the game.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Peter Kafka
Why does Instagram want to show you stuff it thinks you'll like instead of letting you pick for yourself? And why is Instagram focused on getting people to share photos and videos privately? The ideas are linked, Instagram's boss, Adam Mosseri, explains: Normal people simply aren't sharing as much in public anymore. Adam Mosseri's official title is head of Instagram, Meta's massive photo and video app. He also runs Threads, the Twitter clone the company launched two years ago.
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3 weeks ago |
businessinsider.com | Hayley Peterson |Peter Kafka |Henry Blodget
Charter, one of the country's biggest cable and broadband companies, is buying Cox, a smaller cable and broadband company. If you're a customer of either company, you might be vaguely interested in what the deal means for you. And what might you think if you're the president of the United States? Well, Charter is hoping you'll think this is a deal that Makes America Great Again.
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I'm so old I can remember when Jeff Bezos suggested the Saudis - in addition to murdering one of his employees -were part of an attempt to blackmail him. That was 2019. https://t.co/I3L0dFGpAC
Amazon says it will work with Humain to invest $5B+ in a strategic partnership to help build an "AI Zone" in Saudi Arabia (@kyle_l_wiggers / TechCrunch) https://t.co/IKxBh6ZDHn https://t.co/3LJLgmM4H7 https://t.co/ZOzeer2dpR
If you liked "tech ceos line up at the inauguration" you'll love the sequel: "tech CEOs lunch in Saudi"
Upon his arrival, President Trump is attending a big lunch here in Riyadh which has quite the guest list, including Elon Musk, Larry Fink, Sam Altman, Andy Jassy and Reid Hoffman, to name a few. https://t.co/jLSi3Uhlz0
RT @JosephPolitano: https://t.co/8U0EO9D7OL