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Margaret O'Mara

@margaretomara
17 posts
2023-03-09
“If you are not in a profit center, you're kind of screwed.” Good piece & reminder of why blue-sky, long-term projects—and true innovation—generally come not from big firms but institutions more insulated from market pressures—research institutes, higher ed, govt sponsored labs https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-09 View on X
New York Times

Tech giants' cuts heavily impacted staff working on big bets and moonshots, like Alphabet's X and Amazon's Alexa and drones; Meta's Reality Labs is an exception

2022-12-20
Tech companies were really good at lobbying in the 80s (chips/SIA) and 90s (internet regs), but now they have bonkers $$$$ to spend on it, they're REALLY good https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-20 View on X
Wall Street Journal

As US lawmakers considered adding antitrust bills to the omnibus spending package, tech trade group CCIA, Meta, Amazon, and more ramped up opposition to them

Industry has spent more than $100 million to fight antitrust measures and other bills in Congress  —  How Apple's iPhone and Apps Trap You in a Walled Garden

2022-10-19
A profile that goes back to the Stanford late-80s source, some performative moments these players would prefer we all forget, and The Diversity Myth, a book whose culture-war fire underscores that tech's “new” political turn is not all that new. https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-19 View on X
New Republic

A profile of venture capitalist and former PayPal COO David Sacks, who is using his wealth and online clout to lead a reactionary movement against liberalism

Last month, Chesa Boudin, the former district attorney of San Francisco, spoke with the leftist podcaster and political commentator Katie Halper …

2022-04-20
This is such a cool visualization, and a gentle reminder to longtime “it's-a-bubble” doomers like me to slow our roll... Maybe. https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-20 View on X
New York Times

A timeline of warnings from investors over the past decade about a tech startup bubble that never burst; instead of a collapse, things got bubblier

The venture capitalists are sounding the alarm.  At posh conferences, they buzz about falling valuations for start-ups.

2022-03-28
Great rundown from @mims on how the last four years and especially the last four weeks have changed everything https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-28 View on X
Wall Street Journal

How global supply chains are morphing into “supply webs”, as the pandemic, trade wars, and geopolitical conflicts force tech companies to become more resilient

with greater resilience through reducing dependence on potential adversaries, greater geographic diversity, and a pragmatic approach to building a mix of domestic capabilities and ...

2022-02-24
Mountain of cash dimension perfectly captured by @annehelen here https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-24 View on X
New York Times

Despite letting some employees permanently work from home, tech companies are spending billions of dollars expanding their office spaces across the US

what they've been through, their frustrations, and their hopes. This is a plea to think about those who don't get to be done with the pandemic, and to prioritize them as a matter o...

2022-02-23
Fascinating. Of note: 1/offices not necessarily in tech hubs nor CBDs 2/hybridity a common assumption 3/when sitting on a mountain of cash, might as well spend it 4/ as tech has been an office/org culture trendsetter, watch this space Thx @Kellen_Browning https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-02-23 View on X
New York Times

Despite letting some employees permanently work from home, tech companies are spending billions of dollars expanding their office spaces across the US

Even as they allow some employees to change how often they come into the office, tech companies are rapidly buying and leasing properties around the country. Tweets: @paulg , @anit...

Mountain of cash dimension perfectly captured by @annehelen here https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-23 View on X
New York Times

Despite letting some employees permanently work from home, tech companies are spending billions of dollars expanding their office spaces across the US

Even as they allow some employees to change how often they come into the office, tech companies are rapidly buying and leasing properties around the country. Tweets: @paulg , @anit...

2021-07-31
This week feels like one of those when everyone shows up for class having not done the reading https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-31 View on X
VICE

Metaverse, as Zuckerberg and others imagine, is an odd vision built from a compendium of juvenile fantasies, perceived market opportunities, and overt dystopias

Silicon Valley CEOs keep hailing its imminent arrival as they hawk digital goods, but the metaverse was a dystopian idea from its inception.

2021-05-08
How interesting it would be if Silicon Valley's Next Big Thing was the thing that got it started in the first place. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-05-08 View on X
New York Times

Semiconductor firms received more than $12B from equity investors in 2020, up 8x since 2016, as the industry sees a spike in new startups and ideas

While a variety of industries struggle with supplies, semiconductor experts say there are plenty of new ideas and, most surprising, start-ups. Tweets: @ryanaraine , @skydeck_cal , ...

2021-05-01
Fascinating. The Googleplex started as a fantasy version of a college campus. Now it seems to be going for a hybrid of jr high and sleepaway camp. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-05-01 View on X
New York Times

Google is experimenting with post-pandemic designs in 10% of its global work spaces, including inflatable balloon walls, hybrid meeting rooms, open-air tents

although I have to say, this looks like one of the most uncomfortable meeting spaces on earth https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... @joshsternberg : If you're a $1.5 ...

2021-04-11
Phew, this story. Sadly, it ain't new; I heard similar stories about life inside certain other tech companies in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s. But like everything else that's supersized about SV these days, this is just ... MORE. https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-11 View on X
Bloomberg

Current and ex-employees say inattention to data protection at Verkada is emblematic of a “bro culture” that tolerated sexual harassment, misleading customers

Verkada Inc.'s security camera customers were livid.  Hackers had breached footage from thousands of surveillance devices trained …

2020-12-18
Great stuff/scoop by @Kantrowitz. Gets me thinking: 1) how much of this is about housing 2) don't go mistaking the proclamations of wealthy ppl with a platform for an industry-wide trend & 3) further proof that Austin was popping wayyy before Covid. https://bigtechnology.substack.com/ ...
2020-12-18 View on X
Big Technology

LinkedIn data from April to October shows Madison, Cleveland, and Sacramento had biggest gains in tech worker migration, while SF and NYC had steepest declines

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology : Tweets: @cristobalyoung5 , @dalmaer , @kantrowitz , @margaretomara , @kantrowitz , @garrytan , and @kantrowitz Tweets: Cristobal Young / @cristo...

2020-09-06
Everything @zeynep writes is so smart, and here she clearly explains something glaringly obvious and frustratingly overlooked, and that underscores why I find all the blame-those-partying-students stories infuriating. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-09-06 View on X
The Atlantic

In an attempt to open during the pandemic, many US universities are forcing students to download location-tracking apps, sometimes as a condition of enrollment

what we don't hear nearly enough—how terrible university surveillance regimes are for students and the university community. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... @theatlantic : Some co...

2020-09-05
Everything @zeynep writes is so smart, and here she clearly explains something glaringly obvious and frustratingly overlooked, and that underscores why I find all the blame-those-partying-students stories infuriating. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-09-05 View on X
The Atlantic

In an attempt to open during the pandemic, many US universities are forcing students to download location-tracking apps, sometimes as a condition of enrollment

In Michigan, a small liberal-arts college is requiring students to install an app called Aura, which tracks their location in real time, before they come to campus. Facebook: Zeyne...

2020-06-07
In its hyper-efficiencies and super-lean approach, Amazon is a highly successful model of what businesses and governments have been striving to do for decades. Now even the Everything Store is finding that model inadequate for extreme crisis conditions. https://twitter.com/...
2020-06-07 View on X
Bloomberg

Some Amazon workers say they're struggling to get paid sick leave as the deluge of requests swamps the company's heavily automated HR system during the pandemic

Tony Banks told Amazon.com Inc. right away when he tested positive for Covid-19.  More than a month later, he's on the mend … Tweets: @mattmday , @technology , @fmbutt , @mattmday ...

2020-04-09
The persistence of COBOL (and lack of open source versions of it that programmers might have learned in the interim) is one remnant of the years when IBM utterly dominated computing https://twitter.com/...
2020-04-09 View on X
OneZero

Many US government and banking systems still use a 60-year-old COBOL, which makes it hard to find programmers to fix the systems when they break under pressure

Retired engineers are coming to the rescue  —  ver the weekend, New Jersey governor, Phil Murphy, made an unusual public plea during …