David Card
David Card
David Edward Cardis a Canadian labour economist and Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley...
audience audiences evidence seen spike
I haven't seen evidence of a big audience spike yet.
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I'm excited about the potential of the technology, but right now video is pretty brutal.
competition growing
It's not about competition yet, it's about growing the market.
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The Journal is spreading rumors that Microsoft's music subscription service -- itself a rumor -- is on hold due to heavy royalty demands from labels.
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The issue for an Internet-only company to service their audience and their marketing partners is better if they have traditional media offerings, too. I'm a believer in multimedia media companies.
consumer critical driving internet
The consumer Internet is what's driving a lot of critical technologies right now.
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If you could get a device that had enough capacity to be interesting, with good battery life and cool form factor, and sell (it) for $50, this market will explode. It's pretty easy to imagine a flash-based device in a year or two hitting those kinds of price points.
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Immigrants come in and the industries that use this type of labor grow. Taking all into account, the effects of immigration are much, much lower.
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It's challenging teaching that audience to use those kinds of tools. It may not be a natural thing, but it could work if they do a good job data mining and finding people with like passions.
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It's a low-risk effort to experiment online but it's low reward right now. This is not big bucks yet.
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It's kind of subtle, because they're making money off of advertising that they show both to subscribers and non-subscribers. They're trying to apply a lot of different tactics to this overall strategy of migrating the business from primarily fee-based to primarily advertising-based.
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It's an intriguing vision, but a lot depends on Microsoft's execution and ability to draw market share from some strong competitors.
good markets
They're going into markets where there are very good competitors.
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They're early adopters and they're willing to experiment. The adult content market historically has always been a leader in new media.