Thursday, March 27, 2014

Who will miss the future?

Who will win the war for the tech ecosystem, the "platform?" Will it be Facebook, Google, Apple, or Amazon? Reed Albergotti and Rolfe Winkler report in today's Wall Street Journal on what these companies are doing to try to compete for the future.

On Facebook's campus in Menlo Park, Calif., the front of a sign shows its signature "like" button, a thumbs-up signal. But the back of the sign, obscured by trees, still displays the name of Sun Microsystems Inc., which used to occupy the campus, and was swallowed by Oracle Corp in 2009. Facebook left Sun's name on the sign to remind it of what happens to companies that fail to innovate.

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