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Austin Carr

3 years

NEW @BW caper about the Microsoft engineer who stole 152,000 Xbox gift cards + was living off the proceeds in a $1.6 million home with plans to buy a ski chalet, yacht, and seaplane

Robbing the Xbox Vault: Inside a $10 Million Gift Card Fraud

A junior Microsoft engineer figured out a nearly perfect Bitcoin generation scheme in the ultimate virtual currency cheat.

www.bloomberg.com

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

4 years

"Oh, crap, the ukulele concert is going to be canceled.” A titanic @BW dive into Carnival's COVID-19 cruise crisis 🚢: $CCL

Carnival Executives Knew They Had a Virus Problem, But Kept the Party Going

The lawsuits are just getting started.

www.bloomberg.com

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Months ago, reports of suicides surfaced among crew trapped at sea on cruise ships during the pandemic. This is the @BW story of their tragic voyage home:

The Cruise Ship Suicides Began After the Last Passengers Left

Confined mostly to tiny cabins, crew members found themselves forced to stay aboard—sometimes without pay—and struggling to cope with a monthslong lockdown.

www.bloomberg.com

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Personal news: I’m joining Bloomberg! Really looking forward to working with the amazing @technology team at @business @BW starting next month in NYC!

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12 years

Tired of Gmail? AOL (yes, AOL!) may have just designed email’s next UI paradigm http://t.co/5eFcuFqT via @FastCoDesign

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5 years

I spent months reporting on Foxconn’s chaotic move into Wisconsin for @BW ’s new cover story. Tons of insider details on its operations there:

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5 years

Tesla's lawsuit reveals "what happens when Elon Musk’s reality-distortion field comes up against the reality of testifying under oath." @danahull and I dive into the shareholder/solar drama:

Elon Musk’s Solar Deal Has Become the Top Threat to Tesla’s Future

Thousands of pages of internal documents and testimony show that the CEO’s promises about SolarCity were misleading or false.

www.bloomberg.com

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"The work has rattled contract employees, who are not told where the audio was recorded or how it was obtained -- only to transcribe it...They’re hearing Facebook users’ conversations, sometimes with vulgar content, but do not know why Facebook needs them transcribed"

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Facebook has been paying hundreds of human contractors to listen to audio clips from its users and transcribe them. New from me:

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5 years

Can't wait for y'all to see my new Warby Parker contacts

Warby Parker Wants to Be the Warby Parker of Contacts

The company credited with creating the direct-to-consumer craze now wants to go direct-to-cornea with Scout, a line of daily contact lenses.

www.bloomberg.com

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4 years

Classic @BW cover story by @JordynJournals + @tgbuckley on Ben & Jerry's, one of the few activist brands willing to put its money (and a ~20-person social-justice team) where its mouth is:

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3 years

Peter Thiel's "idea of disrupting government is 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒," says Steve Bannon. “He’s full MAGA.” Eye-opening @BW profile of Thiel, from @chafkin 's absurdly great book:

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5 years

“People were literally dying, and Facebook didn’t care." Great story on Zuckerberg's ongoing crisis-management failures, from @sarahfrier

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4 years

NEW @BW cover: ace $TSLA reporter @danahull goes long on America's most-shorted stock. Excellent look at the #TSLAQ counterrevolution: "People are always like, ‘Never bet against Elon,’ but I’m like, ‘Always bet against Elon’"

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

12 years

Also, if you're interested in Apple/Microsoft skeuomorphic design: http://t.co/ndsHFY7C http://t.co/afPG7ZhD http://t.co/2WCMtl04

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@AustinCarr

7 years

Sen. Warner says he's seen data that Twitter's bots represent 12-15% of accounts

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@AustinCarr

9 months

@ATRightMovies

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

10 years

Inside Airbnb's major brand redesign that paves way for more sharing services http://t.co/FlF2QZyfzl tip @Techmeme http://t.co/U2jEJGkWSD

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@AustinCarr

5 years

Inside the $1 billion scam to bring Alaska high-speed internet...new @BW feature that's part Theranos + Shackleton:

The Billion-Dollar High-Speed Internet Scam

Elizabeth Pierce impressed investors with hefty contracts for fiber—until they learned she was the only one who’d signed them.

www.bloomberg.com

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

9 years

Why Jeff Bezos's Fire Phone flopped: Inside Amazon's push to take on Apple http://t.co/UDg6On3N0h http://t.co/YsQzmmZI5Y

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

5 years

Microsoft is having a Nadellaissance! New cover story w/ @dinabass on how Satya Nadella’s Microsoft surpassed Apple, Amazon, and Google in value (without fluff about its culture + corporate empathy!)

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

6 years

New cover story on @Twitter and @Jack Dorsey’s struggles to deal with abuse + toxicity on the platform. Lots of details on internal troubles:

"Did We Create This Monster?" How Twitter Turned Toxic - Fast Company

For years, the company’s zeal for free speech blinded it to safety concerns. Now it’s scrambling to make up for lost time.

www.fastcompany.com

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

10 years

MIT's super slippery coating gets out every last gob of toothpaste, mayo, syrup, even glue! http://t.co/1SAnYta1Of http://t.co/Pi06JfQxQB

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@AustinCarr

11 years

Steve Jobs once ordered 4,000 lattes from Starbucks. We tracked down the barista who took his call http://t.co/8weU6rl51O

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3 years

“Do I spend over $1 million to get fiber to 15 people?" My @BW dispatch from rural Arkansas, where local telcos struggle to close the digital divide due to $$$ rock trenching, signal woes from pine trees, and even squirrels chewing up equipment:

Microsoft and an Army of Tiny Telecoms Are Part of a Plan to Wire Rural America

With help from Washington, the 120 million Americans without high-speed internet access have their best shot in a generation at getting it—so long as they’re flexible on how.

www.bloomberg.com

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

11 years

Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom just called taking pictures of brunch "revolutionary"

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

10 years

Airbnb has been testing an Uber-like car transportation system http://t.co/wc4volbbq8

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

7 years

“ @Amazon alone isn’t holding the knife [that's killing retail]" - @profgalloway

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

2 years

@silviakillings Lol, good luck finding a cheaper place here in Boston

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

6 years

Not another Yves Béhar profile! Rivals are tired of his fame. Ex-staff say he’s impulsive. His portfolio is spotted w/ questionable work. My LAST feature @FastCompany on the celeb designer who’s contributed to tech flops like Jawbone, Juicero, Theranos:

Not another Yves Béhar profile! - Fast Company

He helped lead a design revolution in business, but he hasn’t shared in the spoils like his rivals. As the designer himself jokes: “Whatever happened to Yves Béhar?”

www.fastcompany.com

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

10 years

Why Snapchat's copycats don't understand Snapchat (but why Confide does) http://t.co/5wemrUOwkf http://t.co/1qunfk5g95

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

3 years

Jimmy Buffett DEF has to reconsider launching Margaritaville dental offices + graveyards🦷🪦🌴 My latest @BW cover story on Margaritaville's wild expansion into resorts, waterparks, ghost kitchens, and even weed:

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

9 years

In other words, forget what you've read elsewhere about Disney's MyMagic+ : ) http://t.co/129eO6ESEr http://t.co/vGa8V11nH4

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

2 years

BIG SAUCE WARS: McCormick has transformed into a condiment king by acquiring Cholula, Frank's RedHot, French's mustard, Old Bay + Stubb's BBQ. A @BW special report on the spice maker's battle with Heinz, Hellman's, and the hottest hot sauce brands:

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

1 year

Lithuania's @NordVPN is one of the world’s biggest VPNs, with a $1.6bn valuation. The startup sells web privacy + protection against snooping gov'ts/co's. But critics say VPNs are cybersecurity snake oil. A deep look at an opaque market going mainstream:

VPNs Are Going Mainstream, and So Are Their Trust Issues

Virtual private networks have become a cornerstone of personal security online. What are their makers really selling?

www.bloomberg.com

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

5 years

NEW @BW : Apple, Amazon & other co's created vast networks of humans listening to our Siri + Alexa audio. Tech execs say this isn't problematic or even intrusive. Inside the Silicon Valley's Eavesdropping Economy:

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

7 years

Deep dive into @TeslaMotors ’ $2.6-billion acquisition of @SolarCity . Did Elon Musk bail out his cousins?

The Real Story Behind Elon Musk's $2.6 Billion Acquisition Of SolarCity And What It Means For...

The Tesla CEO's merger with his cousins’ sustainable-energy company, SolarCity, is totally logical--and hugely risky. With eyes now on the private sector for environmental leadership, can Musk pull...

www.fastcompany.com

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

10 years

Why Nest could enable Google to create the OS for the connected home http://t.co/y4AcdYKUJG http://t.co/gJbkWcaA84

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

10 years

Microsoft Injects $15M Into Foursquare, Strikes Licensing Deal For Location Data http://t.co/K6fWunk6pm

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@AustinCarr

11 years

Jawbone, Fitbit, Adidas: Here's how Nike responds to competitive threats http://t.co/vi65I3eha4

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

2 years

NEW @BW cover: Formula 1 racing is finally winning over the U.S. market 🏁🍔🇺🇸🍔🏁 My deep dive into @F1 's Americanization:

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

4 years

The puzzle business is BOOMING: - Amazon running out of 🧩 inventory - @RavensburgerNA sales up 370% 📈 - @WhiteMtnPuzzles orders soaring 10x - 20x (thanks to @ConanOBrien ??) A silver lining in this tragic era of self-isolation:

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

11 years

Tivli raises $6.3M to disrupt live TV -- would've killed to have this when I was in college http://t.co/Xc0bvbyvNi

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

10 years

What's Zuck up to? Six lessons that explain Facebook's biggest failures, threats, acquisitions, and ambitions http://t.co/iJOEKhvuYK

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

4 years

BREAKING: Carnival is facing a U.S. House panel probe over cruise ship COVID-19 outbreaks that resulted in 1,500+ infections and dozens of deaths: $CCL

House Panel Opens Carnival Probe Over Cruise Ship Outbreaks

The committee that has investigated Boeing’s 737 Max crashes wants to know more about Covid-19’s spread across the seas.

www.bloomberg.com

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

5 years

NEW: Foxconn’s Wisconsin-based suppliers represent *just 27%* of its supply chain, internal docs show, revealing big discrepancies in Foxconn’s gov't filings + exec statements Dense + data-heavy story, but some holy-moly findings:

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

9 years

Another story on Disney's MyMagic+!?! Yes, but THIS is the real, untold story of its $1bn bet http://t.co/VnHIXyjGkp http://t.co/rQSEcMuRc1

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@AustinCarr

11 years

How Square's redesign brought merchants $70 million in tips last quarter http://t.co/LRMPYA1Eyf

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11 years

Foursquare on track to make $15 to $20 million this year: Ben Horowitz http://t.co/leziKSs8b0

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@AustinCarr

12 years

5 Ways Hardware Makers Are Hurting Windows 8 http://t.co/1pYO70Ud via @FastCoDesign

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

4 years

Read this INSANE @BW story on the alleged scammer behind the "Fyre Festival of Pizza." I had to speak to 45+ sources (and almost @jarule + @arzE + @questlove !), all for a story on tiny pizza 🍕

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

11 years

Top Microsoft designer on Apple's flattened iOS software: "It's flattering when someone takes your idea" http://t.co/h6MFKmihNa

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@AustinCarr

12 years

Start to finish: Read our fascinating series on Hipstamatic's rise and fall in an Instagram world http://t.co/pIDvuJsT #longreads

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

5 years

YouTube moderators are "required to view 5 hours of gruesome video per day." Several were denied vacation requests because they had too much terrorist content to review. Revealing @CaseyNewton dive into Google/Accenture's contract workforce:

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

11 years

Former top Microsoft source: "I don’t think Steve [Ballmer] could even spell the word design" http://t.co/7C5s0HcmVj

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's Legacy: A Salesman Without Product Vision - Fast Company

A look at the tenure of Steve Ballmer, and the ups and downs of his reign at Microsoft.

www.fastcompany.com

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

9 years

Fun look here at how Jeff Bezos drove the Fire Phone in our new Amazon feature http://t.co/UDg6On3N0h #longreads http://t.co/p6wrlpB5Xp

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

12 years

Just saw Google Glass in the wild for the first time. That's officially one more time than I've seen a Windows Phone in public

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2 years

. @Unity 's @JohnRiccitiello has led the game-engine maker to $1.74 billion of net losses since 2018. He's also turned $U into an ads juggernaut + called devs the "biggest fucking idiots." A wild @BW look at the ex-EA chief + his new bet on the metaverse:

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@AustinCarr

11 years

In need of a lazy Sunday read? Please check out my cover story on @Nike featuring @serenawilliams http://t.co/a7FYENcziV

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11 years

The truth behind "secret" innovation at Google X, Apple, and Nike http://t.co/vaYCu3ht5c

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@AustinCarr

11 years

Why Apple hired the CEO of Burberry to revive its retail experience http://t.co/A1NoPLkROM

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@AustinCarr

12 years

A must-read on Microsoft's past/future: Insiders talk Steven Sinofsky, Steve Ballmer, and Julie Larson-Green http://t.co/hd14MN3y

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2 years

@carlquintanilla @NewYorker Still one of the more surreal interviews I've done was with Blockbuster's CEO during their downfall...never seen such willful blindness to the innovator's dilemma:

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10 years

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: "We get compared a lot with Uber, Lyft...all really good brands. But it's not enough" http://t.co/FlF2QZyfzl

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11 years

Up 65%, Foursquare's tips are growing faster than Yelp's reviews http://t.co/rDulBxFKWO

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8 years

Read this huge new feature on @Chipotle 's E.coli crisis + year of struggle #longreads

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@AustinCarr

11 years

Apple Hires Burberry CEO To Rejuvenate Retail Stores http://t.co/A1NoPLkROM

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11 years

Why the pull-to-refresh gesture must die http://t.co/7KSg7mFXly

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11 years

Really gorgeous data-viz from Foursquare showing the pulse of cities like Chicago, Tokyo, and London http://t.co/wZyGpY0SPQ

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@AustinCarr

12 years

An inside look at how celebrities actually get involved with startups, investments, products: http://t.co/QsVa0ons

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@AustinCarr

12 years

An Insider’s View On Instagram’s True Value To Facebook http://t.co/BiljrXMe via @FastCoDesign

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@AustinCarr

12 years

For all the skeuomorphism haters: Key iPad, iPhone UI designer defends Apple's fake-leather design philosophy http://t.co/afPG7ZhD

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@AustinCarr

10 years

How can retailers block Apple Pay with such shitty VeriFone UX? So embarrassing @CVS_Extra http://t.co/8SD8QyR161 http://t.co/uIE1JYlzbh

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5 years

So damn excited to eat up "The Battle for @Uber " @MikeIsaac is a great reporter + storyteller. Support good journalism and buy his book:

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@AustinCarr

10 years

Look: @Square prototyped a credit card! But here's why you may never get to use it http://t.co/Dml5w36W1f

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@AustinCarr

11 years

Jon Rubinstein + other Apple engineers on what it's like to work at a design-centric company http://t.co/KwI0mB6HS7

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@AustinCarr

6 years

First feature @BW with the indefatigable @mhbergen (who closed the story while moving to Hong Kong)! Where in the world is @Google 's Larry Page?

Where in the World Is Larry Page?

While Alphabet faces existential challenges, its co-founder is exercising his right to be forgotten.

www.bloomberg.com

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5 years

@flufferbot01 @TESLAcharts Thanks. Some additional deep dives on that Tesla/Buffalo project going back several years:

The Real Story Behind Elon Musk's $2.6 Billion Acquisition Of SolarCity And What It Means For...

The Tesla CEO's merger with his cousins’ sustainable-energy company, SolarCity, is totally logical--and hugely risky. With eyes now on the private sector for environmental leadership, can Musk pull...

www.fastcompany.com

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Austin Carr

@AustinCarr

11 years

Inside Netflix's Project Griffin: The Forgotten History Of Roku Under Reed Hastings http://t.co/e9iG06LO

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@AustinCarr

4 years

Inside @HP + @Xerox ’s $35 billion war over $35 ink cartridges 🔥🖨 New @BW dive into the printer biz with @NicoAGrant

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@AustinCarr

12 years

Microsoft forbids "fruit" at events, meaning no Apple gadgets. Learn more fun facts in my feature on MSFT http://t.co/ZqPDDiK6

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@AustinCarr

11 years

Why Flipboard's addictive flip gesture is still a "huge area of investment" http://t.co/nQUNb9q9pD

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5 years

. @sruthiri ’s Reply All episode on Foxconn/Mount Pleasant is spectacular (and gave me a massive heart attack when it published while I was reporting on this stuff!). Highly, highly recommend:

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@AustinCarr

9 years

Excited to finally publish a big, juicy new feature after six months of reporting -- some details coming in a sec

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@AustinCarr

11 years

If y'all can't get enough of Elon Musk, do check Fast Company's profile of him: http://t.co/yLLoLD8BXo

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NEW @BW feature: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered the first DGX supercomputer w/ 8 GPUs to @ElonMusk & @sama at @OpenAI in 2016. Now, thousands of Nvidia GPUs power apps like ChatGPT. Here's how $NVDA became the $1 trillion brain of AI, w/ @ianmking :

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@AustinCarr

11 years

Google’s new Moto X phone shows the dangers of gesture-heavy UIs http://t.co/iraQnHSukZ

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@AustinCarr

5 years

Good time to reread this @BW feature w @mhbergen : Larry Page's "semiretirement, perhaps colored by his health issues, conjures visions of a frail and aging luminary, so much so that it’s easy to forget that he’s younger than his successor, Sundar Pichai"

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@AustinCarr

9 years

Why have so many execs left Snapchat? And what role does Evan Spiegel play?

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3 years

How "Tim Apple" won the Trump era: A deep @BW look at China supply chains + Washington politicking, with @markgurman

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@AustinCarr

3 years

* @RichardDreyfuss voice *: "Here's to the c̵r̵a̵z̵y̵ SENSIBLE ones, the m̵i̵s̵f̵i̵t̵s̵ TEAM PLAYERS, the r̵e̵b̵e̵l̵s̵ PROBLEM SOLVERS..." New @BW cover on Apple's post-Steve Jobs decade under Tim Cook:

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11 years

"I remember telling Jony Ive, ‘Nobody is going to buy the gold.'" http://t.co/NwpOY01evs

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2 years

@bchesky Brian Chesky, circa 2004 🕺

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6 years

Inside Elon Musk’s forgotten $750 million factory in Buffalo, funded by New York taxpayers: - Musk still hasn't visited - Big delays and manufacturing challenges - Crates of unused equipment

Did Elon Musk Forget About Buffalo?

After $750 million in subsidies and years of delays, critics say the Tesla CEO hasn’t done enough for the Gigafactory 2 solar panel factory.

www.bloomberg.com

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At peak, Apple was worth more than Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, 2 Nokias, and 3 BlackBerrys--combined http://t.co/Na8m1nAW62

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Tivli: one of the most promising startups to show how traditional TV can adapt to 21st century http://t.co/Xc0bvbyvNi @levie @jackabraham

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8 years

Wow, Chipotle co-CEO Steve Ells now talking up potential of selling “pizza and burgers” on earnings call

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2 years

@DavidSacks @EricNewcomer Just curious, David: have you and Elon actually studied 1st amendment case law? Or read books on free speech history? Not being cynical/trying to debate, just wondering.

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10 years

Instagram is testing Facebook Places integration to replace Foursquare http://t.co/5UO7hFLy1t

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3 years

China's antitrust case against Alibaba took "only 4 months to complete, whereas it will take years for US/EU regulators to go after" Facebook, Google, and Amazon. New @BW cover story on the bigger picture behind China's big tech crackdown:

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