Software has eaten the world, fading into the background like electricity or cars before, and is now secondary to conventional industry differentiation concerns (Benedict Evans)

Benedict Evans:
Software has eaten the world, fading into the background like electricity or cars before, and is now secondary to conventional industry differentiation concerns  —  Ten years ago Marc Andreessen wrote an article in the WSJ called ‘Software is eating the world’, arguing that there was a fundamental shift …

Rep. Cicilline says he's crafting around 10 smaller antitrust bills, to be ready in May, instead of a one huge bill that would be easier for Big Tech to defeat (Axios)

Axios:
Rep. Cicilline says he's crafting around 10 smaller antitrust bills, to be ready in May, instead of a one huge bill that would be easier for Big Tech to defeat  —  The powerful Democrat overseeing antitrust legislation wants to hit Big Tech with the legislative equivalent of a swarm …

ironSource, which makes user acquisition tech for app devs, will go public through a merger with Thoma Bravo's SPAC that values the combined business at $11.1B (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
ironSource, which makes user acquisition tech for app devs, will go public through a merger with Thoma Bravo's SPAC that values the combined business at $11.1B  —  Thoma Bravo's blank-check firm has reached an agreement to take app software company ironSource public through a merger that values the combined business at $11.1 billion.

Trump adviser Jason Miller says Trump is having meetings with "numerous companies" to return to social media with his own platform in two to three months (Ronn Blitzer/Fox News)

Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Trump adviser Jason Miller says Trump is having meetings with “numerous companies” to return to social media with his own platform in two to three months  —  Jason Miller tells Fox News' ‘#MediaBuzz’ the platform will ‘completely redefine the game’

Interview with CEO of DocuSign, whose sales grew 57% YoY to $431M in Q4, on its plans to expand beyond e-signatures as the market heated up during the pandemic (Joe Williams/Protocol)

Joe Williams / Protocol:
Interview with CEO of DocuSign, whose sales grew 57% YoY to $431M in Q4, on its plans to expand beyond e-signatures as the market heated up during the pandemic  —  Electronic signatures have been legal since President Bill Clinton signed off on legislation in 2000.

A list of questions that experts think CEOs of Facebook, Twitter, and Google should be asked during the March 25 House committee hearing on misinformation (Just Security)

Just Security:
A list of questions that experts think CEOs of Facebook, Twitter, and Google should be asked during the March 25 House committee hearing on misinformation  —  On Thursday, March 25th, two subcomittees of the House Energy & Commerce Committee will hold a joint hearing on “the misinformation and disinformation plaguing online platforms.”