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Fri, 09/24/2021 - 06:48

News Analysis: Unpacking CCP China's Crypto Crackdown

From Crypto Friendly To Crypto Non Grata The policy makers in the CCP now consider cryptocurrencies as a considerable threat to CCP China's quest to become both a global reserve currency and an opportunity to dethrone the dollar. Just a few years back, the CCP government may have thought that crytpos would help unseed the dollar, but something has changed...

Mon, 07/12/2021 - 00:00

Monday's Musings: Get Ready For Big Government Vs Big Tech

THE AGE OF BIG TECH REGULATIONS HAS ARRIVED

Governments across the world seek to rein in the digital giants for political, economic, and societal rationale. While most digital giants have not flaunted the law, the public perception of their enormous size, massive scale, and unfair compe

Mon, 06/14/2021 - 07:56

News Analysis: Inside The Proposed Digital Giant Anti-Trust Bills

On Friday, June 11th, US lawmakers unveiled a series of five bills designed to limit the influence and power of the digital giants. After years of lengthy investigation by the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust, these bills targeted Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and any future company

Mon, 06/14/2021 - 06:40

Trends: What Telco and CSP Leaders Must Consider For 2022

Telcos and CSPs Shift Strategies While Battling The Digital Giants The past two decades has seen a rash of market consolidation activity led by telecommunication organizations in their quest for manifest destiny. The thesis to dominate content, distribution channels, technology platforms, and customer network made sense in the non-digital age.

Wed, 06/09/2021 - 07:43

Big Idea: Compete on Data Supremacy

DDDN's Are The Heart Of Data Supremacy Here’s what I mean, because data is the foundation and first priority of every Data-Driven Digital Network (DDDN) that wants to grow, you have to understand how the data is shared, monetized, and controlled–so identifying the biggest pools of quality data and how that data is consumed is essential.

Wed, 05/19/2021 - 07:16

Big Idea: Decision Velocity

Guess what Alexander the Great's success on the battlefield is often credited to? SPEED of decision-making or decision velocity.

Fri, 05/14/2021 - 09:23

Big idea: The Digital Giant Ethos

Today's Startups Are Designed To Be Monopolies On Day One From day one, startups are designed to dominate markets, overthrow existing Fortune 500's, and emerge as a monopoly. Sector after sector has become a winner-takes-all — or two-winners-take-all — bloodbath:

Wed, 05/12/2021 - 06:41

Big Idea: Consortiums Often Fail, But Joint Venture Startups Will Challenge Digital Giants

Learn From The Failure Of Consortiums Consortiums of independent companies have a high failure rate, despite their potential power. @Constellation Research studied the history of 100 consortiums, shared services models, trading networks, and open source communities. All attempted to bring together companies for their self-interest, yet 99% of these coalitions failed!

Mon, 05/10/2021 - 09:55

News Analysis: Amazon Sidewalk Ups The Battle For Last Inch Connectivity

Key Features Extend Last Inch Network On Friday May 7th, 2021, Amazon announced a series of updates to Amazon Sidewalk. Sidewalk delivers last mile connectivity via a network bridge protocol on Amazon's smart home devices. The Sidewalk Bridge devices such as Echo products and Ring Floodlight Cams use a 900 MHz band and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), to extend WiFi networks

Mon, 05/10/2021 - 07:17

Monday's Musings: Extreme EBIDTA or Rapid Growth?

Think and Act Like A Digital Giant No matter how big your company, you’ll need to convince your shareholders or private investors to keep financing your long-term strategy for market dominance, even when the short-term gets rough.

Sat, 05/08/2021 - 10:39

News Analysis: Crypto FOMO and Bitcoin's Rise Into the $1 Trillion Club

Crypto FOMO Drives Capital Flows Out Of Big Tech (For Now) Retail investors have taken money out of the equity market and rotated into crypto to catch the wave. With all crypto's now worth more than $2 Trillion in market cap and Bitcoin standing out at $1 trillion, this poses a risk to the US dollar dominance as the reserve currency.

Fri, 05/07/2021 - 23:53

Big Idea: Prioritize Long Term Invesmtent Mindset Over Short Term Profits

Short Term Thinking Crushes Traditional Companies In Fight Against Digital Giants If legacy companies want to compete with data giants in the age of extreme capitalism, spending capital on innovation needs to STOP being sacrificed for short-term profits.