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Why Amazon is eating the world

A look at the radical way in which Amazon is systematically turning each component of its business into an productised commercial venture with external clients – starting with their technology infrastructure, then their fulfillment service and so on. The objective goes beyond revenues and profit (though they come – Amazon Web Services has a $14bn annual run rate) to building a “moat” around their market position and ensuring that the pressure of servicing external clients keeps all units in Amazon lean and competitive.

Business Wired

A New Look Inside TheranosÕ Dysfunctional Corporate Culture

The story of the much-feted healthcare startup where things went very sour. http://bit.ly/wired-theranos

Business The Yale Law Journal

Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox

A searching piece about Amazon and monopoly, published in a newspaper owned by Amazon’s CEO. If you have the time, it’s also worth dipping into the elegantly wrought 28,000 word ‘note’ in The Yale Law Journal that inspired the piece.

Business The Monthly

The endless reign of Rupert Murdoch

A profile of Rupert Murdoch, fittingly epic in length given its subject’s lifetime spent “in the business of speaking power to truth”.

Bloomberg Businessweek Business

The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought

A behind the scenes account of Travis Kalanick’s defenestration from his role as Uber’s CEO. The piece provides insights into the delicate power balance between executives and their company boards. Recent events do though help to put Kalanick’s ‘fall’ in context – an investment in Uber by Japanese firm Softbank has recently been agreed, netting him an estimated $1.4bn.