Dan Gallagher

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617 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2017 last heard Nov 2019

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Facebook Data Scandal: Are Investors Too Forgiving? · 29 Jun 2018 podcast

I mean, and its user base is something like a fifth of the world's population.

So to think that everybody's just going to flee off because, you know, there's concerns about privacy and data and everything else, I don't think people flee off that easily.

So I think there is some resilience to it.

I don't think this crushes Facebook's business completely.

But because Facebook's had a very tough year in which a lot of questions have been raised, not only about how it handles your data, but its role in democracy and society at large.

I think that Facebook is essentially a very unique company.

With a unique business model, investors kind of have to take a unique and somewhat cautious approach to it.

My pleasure.

WSJ Your Money Briefing · E3: Microsoft's Focus on Xbox Games Over Console Price · 13 Jun 2018 podcast

Your Money Briefing. matched

I've been covering the E3 conference for years now, and matched

It doesn't happen every year, but it's not uncommon for the console makers like Microsoft, like Sony, or Nintendo to use the event to bring down the price of their consoles. matched

Because normally these things launch at a certain price, they're new, and then over time, because they're in the market for a number of years, the price comes down. matched

And as the price comes down, more people buy into it. matched

So there were some leaks kind of before the conference that they might drop the price, but they didn't. matched

And I, you know, as I wrote, I'm not terribly surprised they didn't because they have other priorities. matched

I mean, because Microsoft has really become, and if you look at the company's broader strategy, even outside of games, they're really pushing towards a world where they're trying to maximize essentially services, services that use their tools. matched

that use their tools and their software, but not necessarily has to exist on their platform. matched

That's a big difference from the years in which they really wanted everything to exist in Windows because that was their main money driver. matched

Specific to games, what they're trying to do is bolster the games and the content so that people are, you know, they feed more subscriptions to things like Xbox Live and that more people are coming to it. matched

And the game business now, I think, is kind of slowly coming out of the focus on matched

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