98 Quotes by Daniel Lyons

One way Groupon hopes to gain an edge is by using software to learn about its members so it can deliver more relevant offers: my wife will get the manicure-pedicure deal, but I'll get an offer on fly-fishing lessons. The key now is execution - delivering great customer service and keeping everybody happy on both sides of the transactions.

What if people could use the Internet to create a new kind of money, one that didn't involve governments and central banks and could be used anonymously, like cash?

I was a technology reporter. And I think everybody who covers tech at some point or another feels like a little kid with their face pressed against the glass looking in at the candy shop and going, 'Wow, it looks so cool and so much fun.'

Since the beginning of the internet era, it has been pretty widely accepted that when you join an online service, whatever data you put into it belongs to you.

Google views Facebook as a threat to its business and has been trying to launch a social-networking service to compete with it.

There are people who do things in tech that have the same skill sets that journalists have. They write, they edit, they put out press releases.

Facebook's position with rival tech companies boils down to this: if you want access to all the information we've collected, strike a deal with us.

I want to get in on how the media business is changing, how people are telling stories in new ways.

Remember the early days of the Net, when everything was going to be open and free, and we were all going to share information in a techno-utopia? That was great until people realized that their user data could be turned into gold. Now there are billions at stake, and nobody is playing nice anymore.