Articles by Nick Kolakowski

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  'The Everything Store' Sparks Battle Over Bezos' Reputation

  [caption id="attachment_13769" align="aligncenter" width="475"] That's what this situation truly needs.[/caption] Tech-giant CEOs such as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos face criticism from a number of quart…
• Google’s Helpouts Driven by People Power

  [caption id="attachment_13712" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Google Hangouts.[/caption] While Google built its highly profitable search business atop a complex mix of algorithms and machine le…
• Silicon Valley’s War on Snooping

  Some of the country’s biggest tech companies are responding to allegations of NSA surveillance in the best way they know how: by encrypting more of their data, and demanding that the federal gove…
• Salesforce Launches Private App Hub

  [caption id="attachment_13610" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Salesforce's Private AppExchange.[/caption] Private app stores for companies could proliferate over the next few years, if one laun…
• Amazon Web Services Upgrades to Hadoop 2.2.0

  [caption id="attachment_13565" align="aligncenter" width="500"] AWS faces a growing amount of competition.[/caption] Amazon Web Services has updated its Elastic MapReduce (EMR) with access to not…
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  Google Plus Growth Accelerating, Google Claims

  [caption id="attachment_13560" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Google Plus.[/caption] Google claims that some 300 million people are active on its Google Plus (often written as Google+) social n…
• Google’s Encrypted Search Could Cost It Ad Clients

  [caption id="attachment_13542" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Some advertisers don't think this is quite good enough.[/caption] Over at Business Insider, a new article suggests that Google encr…
• Sandy's Lesson: Preparedness is Key

  [caption id="attachment_13532" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Rockaway Beach, right after Sandy.[/caption] This time last year, hurricane Sandy rumbled up the U.S. East Coast, devastating broad…
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  The Big Moat: How Amazon, Netflix and Google Stay Giants

  Earlier in 2013, Slate writer Matthew Yglesias summarized Amazon in a way that quickly went viral, as it reconciled the company’s popularity with its willingness to eschew profits in a particular…
• Why Is Google Testing Banner Ads in Search Results?

  [caption id="attachment_13461" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Google's homepage: ad-free, but for how much longer?[/caption] Violating a self-imposed ban on cluttering its search-results pages…