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2026-06-03Wealth column
"Connected TV: The Next Gateway War Is in the Living Room"
Cord-cutting is old news at this point, but cutting the cord doesn't mean people stopped watching TV — they just moved to connected TV. A recently released number out of the US TV industry is genuinely symbolic. Since late last year, streaming video's share of Americans'
2024-05-08Wealth column
The Winners of the TikTok Ban
The US has finally confirmed it will ban TikTok. Three years ago, nobody believed this bill would ever pass — but it has now, and that says a lot about how much the world's operating logic has shifted.
2024-04-10Wealth column
Reddit's IPO: What America's Forum for Geeks Taught Us
I recently caught Dumb Money, the new film on Netflix about the meme-stock frenzy — and, fittingly, Reddit, the very platform where meme-stock mania was born, just went public itself.
2023-10-25Wealth column
Elon Musk and Twitter's Year
The world's best biographer is Walter Isaacson, the man behind Steve Jobs. He's just published another monumental work — Musk. Isaacson says hardly anyone gets a biography written while still young and at the peak of their powers the way Musk has — after all, when Jobs first came to him it was because
2023-09-27Wealth column
The Music Streaming Survival War
The biggest news lately in Taiwan's domestic internet sector is that both Chunghwa Telecom and Taiwan Mobile have decided to invest in KKBOX, merging Taiwan Mobile's own music platform MyMusic into KKBOX — a sign that the two telecom giants are no longer going to run their own
2023-08-02Wealth column
Social Media Is Doing Better Than You Think
There's been no shortage of drama in the social media industry lately. Facebook launched Threads, a Twitter look-alike, which unexpectedly prompted Twitter owner Elon Musk to declare it a knockoff and challenge Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to a literal cage match. The fight is now officially on, so