Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Shifts Gears on Lawsuit, Claims Pricing Mistake, Judge Falls For It…

Commercial Intelligence
Stephen E. Arnold

Amazon Versus Microsoft: JEDI in Play?

DarkCyber spotted a story in Stars and Stripe titled “Judge Says Amazon Likely to Succeed on Key Argument in Pentagon Cloud Lawsuit.” The source appears to be the Bezos-owned Washington Post. That fact may provide some context for the story.

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Anthony Judge: Mysterious Complementarity between Capitalism and Arsenalism Metaphors crucial to sustainability and the crisis of the times

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
Anthony Judge

Mysterious Complementarity between Capitalism and Arsenalism

Metaphors crucial to sustainability and the crisis of the times

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Stephen E. Arnold: Pakistan Takes on #GoogleGestapo Social Media — Can A Country Be a Country in Bill Gates’s Technopia?

Commercial Intelligence, IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold

Social Media Versus a Nation State: Pakistan Versus the Facebook and Friends

The government of Pakistan’s social media position is reflected in this passage from the article:

The new set of regulations makes it compulsory for social media companies to open offices in Islamabad, build data servers to store information and take down content upon identification by authorities. Failure to comply with the authorities in Pakistan will result in heavy fines and possible termination of services.

The consequences of ignoring the nation state’s approach to social media are not acceptable to the US companies. Pakistan’s ideas are easy to understand:

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