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The cloud, for a while more of a metaphor than a giant business, is re-ordering all sorts of industries.
Adam Lashinsky
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A 'free and open' Internet has been an article of faith in and around Mountain View, Menlo Park, and its environs for two decades.
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The rap against Tesla has always been of the 'yes, but' variety. Yes, it's a fine artisanal designer and manufacturer of electric cars, and its CEO is one of the few business leaders alive for whom the label 'visionary' isn't hyperbolic.
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Tesla has humiliated established carmakers with its brilliant vision. But Detroit, Turin, Stuttgart, and so on have understood scale as well as capital allocation for decades. Such gargantuan tasks could yet humiliate Tesla.
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Amazon has suffered quarters-long profit droughts. Alphabet has given its investors agita over profligate spending on non-core products. Microsoft's growth - if not its profit engine - stalled for years, causing its stock to idle, too.
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Dynamic pricing - charging more when goods and services are in high demand and short supply and less when the opposite is true - isn't new. Gasoline retailers, hoteliers, and airlines have been deploying the technique for years.
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Amazon is pursuing something called Amazon Key, which lets its couriers unlock Prime customers' doors and deliver packages. It's pairing the service, which it plans to make available in 37 cities next month, with a camera so users will have intelligence inside and outside their homes, presumably boosting trust and lowering creepiness.
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Amazon has a good record with customers, who are confident the retailer will give them the lowest price. Entering their home will be another thing altogether.
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Amazon led with online bookselling, web services, and drones.
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Groceries, TV shows, and shoes are a few categories Amazon has been willing to hang onto for years.
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ICG became a dot-com joke, a one-stock example of extreme hubris on the part of its management and the investment bankers and sell-side analysts who embarrassed themselves by pumping it up.
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ICG wasn't an index fund so much as a collection of venture-capital investments focused on so-called business-to-business Internet companies.
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