It’s Time to Re-Imagine Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report

Any journalist who has spent time in or near the tech industry knows about, and looks forward to Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends Report. It houses a ridiculous volume of data about where the tech industry (and thus, the economy) is pointed. The clumsy slides overflowing with bullet points, photo clips, and ’90s-era charts and graphs never feel amateurish so much as entrepreneurial, the product of the passion and audacity of trying to capture a... More »

It’s Time to Re-Imagine Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report

Any journalist who has spent time in or near the tech industry knows about, and looks forward to Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends Report. It houses a ridiculous volume of data about where the tech industry (and thus, the economy) is pointed. The clumsy slides overflowing with bullet points, photo clips, and ’90s-era charts and graphs never feel amateurish so much as entrepreneurial, the product of the passion and audacity of trying to capture a... More »

When to Make a Promise to Your Boss (and When Not To)

Bending over backward to honor a promise may not do you much good, according to new research from Ayelet Gneezy and Nicholas Epley. The duo tracked three types of promises — "broken ones, kept ones, and then ones that were fulfilled beyond expectations" — and found that overdelivering on promis

Does Hachette Have any Cards to Play Against Amazon?

The publishing world has been watching the standoff between Amazon and Hachette — at its heart a dispute over contract terms, but one in which Amazon is playing hardball by de-listing Hachette titles  — with great interest.  Not surprising, since their fight is not only business news, but news about their business. The New York Times has weighed in multiple times, describing the dispute as “clashing visions about the distribution of information in the information... More »

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