There’s a good reason why Microsoft was dubbed the Death Star by many fearful detractors during the on-premise era: its OS/application stack, with 90%+ desktop share, was an impermeable force that whipped the surrounding computing galaxy into submission. Given Window’s ubiquity, value added resellers and systems integrators optimized their resources and relationships by supporting Windows […]
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October 20, 2026
Agents are less disruptive to commerce than you think; how Match is trying to find [...]
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[scuttleslops] MRVL, APP, AMZN, Chips
October 15, 2026
Marvell connects the dots; AppLovin has most of the auctions; AWS is not worried about [...]
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October 12, 2026
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[scuttleslops] META, MU, NVDA, LW, open web advertising
October 8, 2026
strategy and challenges at Meta’s Reality Labs; the bull and bear case for memory; Europe [...]
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[scuttleslops] Cloudflare wants bots to pay; OpenAI’s ad ambitions; Memory chip competition; Muse is a proactive assistant; the Wintel of cars and robots; Atlassian as a coordinating layer
October 2, 2026
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