When two tweets tell a whole New Yorker short story
We know there is an anti-trust thing brewing with Google (both through official pronouncements and PR that leads to stories like this). The more interesting question is whether we’ll look back on all this and think, similarly to Microsoft, that our concerns about overwhelming dominance leading to the necessity of antitrust were happening just as that very same dominance was eroding (mobile search - SIRI, social).
(via Tom Colicchio’s ‘Only in New York’ Moment — Grub Street New York) (ht: Anjali)
We’re a net exporter now.
This might be fun.
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One of the most penetrating criticisms of Mr. Obama came again from Jobs, who supported him but was frustrated by him. He met with the president last year and urged him to move forward on visas for foreign students who earned an engineering degree in the U.S. Mr. Obama blandly replied that this was covered in his comprehensive immigration bill, which Republicans were holding up. Jobs told Mr. Isaacson: “The president is very smart, but he kept explaining to us reasons why things can’t get done.”
He does do that a lot. Nothing is ever shovel-ready with him. But leaders tell us how things will get done, how we can move forward. They can tease a small element out of a large bill, and get it passed.
Mr. Obama is a very dignified and even somber man, but he never seems to get the seriousness of the moment, the sense that we’re in a gathering crisis. But then a lot of his would-be contenders seem unserious and unresponsive, don’t they?
""The primary reason given for why firms are running way from healthcare like Road Runner from Wile E. Coyote is the vastly more complex regulatory environment that has created a dark cloud over the biopharma and medical device industries."
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Hey, where are all the healthcare investors going? - The Term Sheet: Fortune’s deals blog Term Sheet
Read the whole thing.
