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In the world of famous threesomes there’s Larry, Moe and Curly; The Three Musketeers; Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Madonna. But the battle for media will be fought by these three: Apple, Google and Microsoft.

All three companies are engaged in multiple battlefront wars with each other: search, software, hardware, services.

Apple’s banning of the Google Voice [...]

The real story about media this year is that Apple looks like more of the future than anyone talked about at Sun Valley. And Steve Jobs wasn’t even [...]

Digital goods expand, not contract. In the old TV series Star Trek Captain Kirk
comes across the Tribbles which multiply amazingly [...]

One of the biggest myths running around the web and tech industries today is the idea of ‘first mover [...]

The real battle is in third-party apps and who has the biggest ecosystem for developers to build on. Other contenders will emerge: Google, Facebook, Twitter. But they are all hopelessly late to the [...]

The name for those that build new things is “entrepreneur” which is basically French for “dreaming against the [...]

I started at Microsoft almost 30 years ago. I thought I would give you my “entrepreneurial story.” That’s me when I left Stanford. I still part my hair, by the way, on the right, just like I did back then. [...]

PC, Mobile and Gaming. These are what I refer to as the Three Horsemen of Technology. The Three Musketeers of The Global [...]

And now for something completely different, quick takes (or what I call “blips”):

Amazon:
reported record sales of $4.89 billion, up 18%, and $177 million net profit, up 24%. Jeff is kickin’ kindle and not taking names. Which venture investor would back it today, especially with all the years of losses it had. Shows that patience [...]

Bruce Lee: To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities
—>applied to business: opportunity never knocks at your door, you must go knock on its door and, don’t forget, open [...]