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        <title><![CDATA[Ben Thompson - Bloomberg View Contributor]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Ben Thompson is the founder of the blog Stratechery.com, a member-supported blog focused on the business and strategy of technology. He has worked at Apple, Microsoft and Automattic, where he focused on strategy, developer relations and marketing. He lives in Taipei, Taiwan.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Amazon Sets Fire to Its Money-Losing Business Plan]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[While Amazon has gone to great lengths to make the Fire Phone compelling as a phone, it's still an inferior offering compared to a high-end Android phone or, especially, an iPhone. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:35:56 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>SEATTLE, WA - JUNE 18: Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos presents the company&apos;s first smartphone, the Fire Phone, on June 18, 2014 in Seattle, Washington. The much-anticipated device is available for pre-order today and is available exclusively with AT&amp;T service.  (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Uber Won't Flop Like Groupon]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[To be sure, there are reasons to doubt Uber’s long-term success, but that doesn’t make it a bad investment.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2014 14:32:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Amazon: How to Beat a Book Bully]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Unwilling to make their cost structures viable in a digital world predicated on much lower costs and much higher volume, and unable to build their own DRM and companion devices, publishers embraced the Kindle’s DRM, and thus gave Amazon complete power over the only means of enforcing the artificial scarcity that undergirded their old-fashioned business model.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 16:45:42 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>SANTA MONICA, CA - SEPTEMBER 6:  Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveils new Kindle reading devices during a press conference on September 6, 2012 in Santa Monica, California. Devices include the front-lit Kindle Paperwhite and the Kindle Fire HD in 7 and 8.9-inch sizes. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[GoPro May Give the iPhone a Dangerous Ride]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Not only is GoPro’s strategy compelling, it’s a potential model for not just hardware companies, but content companies to emulate.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-05-22/gopro-may-give-the-iphone-a-dangerous-ride</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2014 17:27:40 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 28:  (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Kevin Poulin #60 of the New York Islanders skates with a GoPro camera on his helmet during the 2014 NHL Stadium Series practice session at Yankee Stadium on January 28, 2014 in the Bronx borough of New York City.  (Photo by Brian Babineau/NHLI via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Google Can Steal Facebook's Candy]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[ Facebook’s dependence on app-install ads primarily driven by free games leaves the company very exposed to both Apple and Google, albeit in two different ways.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-04-30/how-google-can-steal-facebook-s-candy</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:47:36 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>BARCELONA, SPAIN - FEBRUARY 24:  Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg  speaks during his keynote conference as part of the first day of the Mobile World Congress 2014 at the Fira Gran Via complex on February 24, 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. The annual Mobile World Congress hosts some of the world&apos;s largest communication companies, with many unveiling their latest phones and gadgets. The show runs from February 24 - February 27.  (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)</media:description>
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