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People Inc. CEO: We’re not turning off Google crawlers yet
People Inc.’s CEO Neil Vogel said the company won’t block Google’s crawlers — not because execs don’t want to, but because they don’t want to lose out on any potential referral traffic. In a company earnings call on Tuesday, Vogel voiced a dilemma shared by many in the publishing industry, who want to block Google’s AI…
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People Inc. CEO: We’re not turning off Google crawlers yet
People Inc.’s CEO Neil Vogel said the company won’t block Google’s crawlers — not because execs don’t want to, but because they don’t want to lose out on any potential referral traffic. In a company earnings call on Tuesday, Vogel voiced a dilemma shared by many in the publishing industry, who want to block Google’s AI…
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People Inc. CEO: We’re not turning off Google crawlers yet
People Inc.’s CEO Neil Vogel said the company won’t block Google’s crawlers — not because execs don’t want to, but because they don’t want to lose out on any potential referral traffic. In a company earnings call on Tuesday, Vogel voiced a dilemma shared by many in the publishing industry, who want to block Google’s AI…
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People Inc. CEO: We’re not turning off Google crawlers yet
People Inc.’s CEO Neil Vogel said the company won’t block Google’s crawlers — not because execs don’t want to, but because they don’t want to lose out on any potential referral traffic. In a company earnings call on Tuesday, Vogel voiced a dilemma shared by many in the publishing industry, who want to block Google’s AI…
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People Inc. CEO: We’re not turning off Google crawlers yet
People Inc.’s CEO Neil Vogel said the company won’t block Google’s crawlers — not because execs don’t want to, but because they don’t want to lose out on any potential referral traffic. In a company earnings call on Tuesday, Vogel voiced a dilemma shared by many in the publishing industry, who want to block Google’s AI…
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People Inc. CEO: We’re not turning off Google crawlers yet
People Inc.’s CEO Neil Vogel said the company won’t block Google’s crawlers — not because execs don’t want to, but because they don’t want to lose out on any potential referral traffic. In a company earnings call on Tuesday, Vogel voiced a dilemma shared by many in the publishing industry, who want to block Google’s AI…
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How PayPal, Netflix, X, Facebook and YouTube lost their way
There was a time when the biggest technology companies knew exactly what they were. Twitter was where the world talked. Facebook was where friends connected. YouTube was where anyone could broadcast themselves. Netflix was where you watched great television without adverts, schedules or interruptions. PayPal was the easiest way to pay online. Each company had……
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People Inc. CEO: We’re not turning off Google crawlers yet
People Inc.’s CEO Neil Vogel said the company won’t block Google’s crawlers — not because execs don’t want to, but because they don’t want to lose out on any potential referral traffic. In a company earnings call on Tuesday, Vogel voiced a dilemma shared by many in the publishing industry, who want to block Google’s AI…
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Things worth reading: 30th July 2026
Things we’re reading today include … Adyen is coming for agentic payments. Can startups keep up? Stripe vet buys a bank for his fintech Cryptocurrency Trading Volumes Near Three-Year Low Lloyds reports first-half profit up 23%, outlines AI-driven cost-cutting plans Central banks slashed their gold purchases in early 2026 Increase in mortgage debt ‘doesn’t indicate……
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Living in the age of networked dishonesty
For decades we’ve assumed that technology would make markets more efficient. It has. What we perhaps didn’t anticipate is that it would also make theft, lies and deceit dramatically more efficient. This is illustrated by three completely unrelated stories that caught my attention this week. One examined how consumers are abusing chargeback rules through “friendly……