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For a decade, Facebook has delivered growth however you want to measure it. Tons of it. Until now. For the first time ever, revenue declined. User numbers have stalled. Revenue per customer is off target. The question is why? There are four reasons why. IMHO, it’s the beginning of the…

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Elon Musk has wreaked havoc with Twitter in the last 6 months. Secretly buying stock, ignoring the rules, publicly redesigning the product before he owns it, bragging about an inflated offer, regretting making the inflated offer, pulling out from buying Twitter. Now he’s in a bind entirely of his own…

Facebook defined how content would be served up to users. Then along came TikTok and rewrote the rules. Making it the most addictive social network on the planet, stealing Facebook’s lunch along the way. Now, The Verge has got its hands on a memo that shows exactly how worried they…

Apple’s strategy is to layer frictionless services on top of exceptional products. The latest offering is Apple Pay Later, a Buy Now Pay Later product that enables users to buy more than can afford right now. But what does it really mean and why are they doing it? This article…