The idea that companies are trying to outpace technology firms by acquiring vertical or horizontally related non-technology firms seems silly to me.

If the problem is that you can't compete with a technology company, no aggregation of non-technological companies will fix that problem.

A bit like building stronger castle walls to fight damage from strategic bombing, to construct a bad metaphor.

These titles are driving me crazy. It's just something about some titles that you have to read ten times to understand. And usually, after reading the subtitle of the piece, you get the point.

Paywalls suck.

I subscribe to some news sites (WaPo, The Guardian, NYT, The Economist) — they each have a much better hook than WSJ which just dumps you into this weird limbo. I wonder how successful this approach is versus the “5 free articles a month” approach others use or the “polite request” approach of The Gaurdian. Does anyone know?

HN Feedback: For sites where the web link won’t work, I’d like to see a paywall icon so that I don’t bother clicking.

aye matie

I can only see the first two paragraphs?? how to fix??

Try: http://archive.is/1JvXz