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Everybody loses in Trump’s war on intelligence agencies

  Recently, the US intelligence community struck back. Not at Russia, which it accuses of hacking the Democratic National Committee to destabilize American democracy and swing the 2016 presidential race, but at President-elect Donald Trump, whose recent tweets have called into question not just the agencies’ findings but their competence. It’s entirely appropriate, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told ...

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Why Medium failed to disrupt the media

  Ev Williams, the co-founder of Twitter, spent five years building Medium into one of the slickest publishing platforms on the web. Yet he found himself in traditional-publishing purgatory, cutting 50 employees and searching for a new business model. There could be no better proof that delivery methods matter little and content is king. In the post outlining the changes, ...

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Boeing can survive a China trade war

  As if it wasn’t bad enough getting into a fight with the president-elect over the cost of Air Force One, Boeing Co. is facing problems from the other side of the Pacific. Beijing is planning to step up scrutiny of US companies in the event that Donald Trump flips from trash-talking the cost of presidential aircraft to taking punitive ...

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