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Predictions 2016: Apple, Tesla, Google, Medium, Adtech, Microsoft, IoT, and Business on a Mission

John Battelle's Searchblog

Twelve years of making predictions doesn’t make writing them any easier, regardless of my relatively good showing in 2015. And given that more than 125,000 of you read my post summarizing how I did in 2015 (thanks Medium and LinkedIn!), Ouch, 2015 was not kind to Twitter, especially if you were a stockholder.

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Jamaica’s New Privacy Protection Bill

Data Matters

As of 2011, Saint Lucia has also adopted legislation, but the law has not yet gone into effect. Jamaica’s need for additional privacy protections was first recognized in 2000 when the telecommunications market was liberalized; it was subsequently reflected in the country’s 2011 Information and Communications Technology policy.

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Predictions 2021: Disinformation, SPACs, Africa, Facebook, and a Return to Tech Optimism

John Battelle's Searchblog

But by year’s end folks will realize that antitrust suits are essentially kabuki, an exercise designed to go nowhere and maintain the status quo. Predictions 2015. 2015: How I Did. Predictions 2011. 2011: How I Did. Everyone loses their s**t, in a good way. Predictions 2018. 2018: How I Did. Predictions 2017.

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