Facebook was the big winner this week when it comes to social media company earnings. How’d they do it? And why does Twitter suck so much at it?

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Bottom line: Apple’s sudden loss of China market share to domestic rivals Huawei, Oppo and Vivo is a wake-up call that the tech giant needs to find new cutting-edge product areas to replace rapidly commoditizing smartphones.

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When it’s time for watching Netflix, scrolling through the motions gets you nowhere and being chill requires a lot of effort. Cartoon by Shannon Wheeler.

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos drove to Seattle about 22 years ago to start an online bookstore.

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It starts with building platforms that improve data quality.

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The French unit of Altice, SFR-Numericable, this week announced that it planned to become “France’s leading content generator” by integrating several activities that were already part of the larger group, and launching some new platforms. SFR called this a global convergence of telecom, media content and advertising. The strategy for content consolidation over platforms is not wrong, but building content packages to keep and grow subscribers to your platform might not be the best approach.

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A Series of Forbes Insights Profiles of Thought Leaders Changing the Business Landscape:  Daniel Chao, Co-Founder and CEO, Halo Neuroscience.

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Get those old medicines out of the house, for both safety and the environment.

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Even though the United States has over 100 million broadband subscriptions, it lags behind other developed nations in terms of internet speed. In the last quarter of 2015, connection speed averaged 14.2 megabytes per second (mbps) for U.S. internet users, considerably slower than in South Korea or Japan where it averaged 26.7 and 17.4 mbps respectively, according to Akamai.

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