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Business News > Mint Authors > Leonid Bershidsky

Leonid Bershidsky

ARTICLES BY LEONID BERSHIDSKY

Samsung with the Galaxy Fold unleashes the same kind of race that Apple started with the iPhone in 2007. (Eric Risberg/AP)

Opinion | Galaxy Fold, Samsung's $2,000 bid to be the king of cool

4 min read . 22 Feb 2019

Photo: Bloomberg

Opinion | Social network usage does lead to violence

4 min read . 23 Aug 2018

Photo: Bloomberg

EU crackdown has not changed US tech

4 min read . 26 Jun 2018

People perform Argentinian dances at the Moskva riverside in Moscow, Russia. Photo: AP

FIFA World Cup 2018: A glimpse of a happier Russia

4 min read . 21 Jun 2018

Facebook chief executive officer (CEO) Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Reuters

Facebook’s apology tour just raises more questions

4 min read . 24 May 2018

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin gives a speech at a session of the State Duma in Moscow on Tuesday. Photo: AFP

Vladimir Putin v4.0 offers more of the same

4 min read . 08 May 2018

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and US President Donald Trump. Photo: Reuters

‘Trump is locked in a macho contest with Putin’

4 min read . 12 Apr 2018

Apple CEO Tim Cook says his company has never emphasized customer data monetization. Photo: Bloomberg

Apple is ready for the tech backlash

4 min read . 30 Mar 2018

Newer, privacy-respecting business models, like the one envisioned by Telegram, will naturally supersede the old model. Photo: AFP

Protect your data, then hope for a tech revolution

4 min read . 27 Mar 2018

Cambridge Analytica office in London. Photo: AP

Cambridge Analytica’s business isn’t data

5 min read . 21 Mar 2018

Even correcting the official data for that would yield a respectable 60% turnout and almost 74% for Vladimir Putin. Without the correction, the turnout hit 67.4%, more than in 2004 and 2012, and Putin won 77.7% of the vote—his highest ever. Photo: Reuters

Vladimir Putin’s hawks got the result they wanted

4 min read . 20 Mar 2018

Nectome promises to preserve the brains of terminally ill people in order to turn them into computer simulations—at some point in the future when such a thing is possible. Photo: iStockphoto

Use your brain; artificial intelligence won’t soon replace it

3 min read . 19 Mar 2018

Had Stephen Hawking not lived this advice with what looked like supernatural ease, many of his quotes would read like the inspirational garbage one often finds on the social networks. Photo: AP

Stephen Hawking and the unconstrained mind

3 min read . 14 Mar 2018

Russian president Vladimir Putin is showing his teeth from a position of weakness, seeking to make the US understand that its strength is irrelevant in dealing with him. Photo: AP

Why Vladimir Putin is rattling his super weapons

4 min read . 03 Mar 2018

The absence of a full-time parliament might even force the European Commission to limit its legislation-drafting activity and focus on a smaller list of priorities. Photo: Bloomberg

The EU doesn’t want to be more democratic

4 min read . 12 Feb 2018

The stock market is a lot like bitcoin now

3 min read . 07 Feb 2018

Both German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the privacy advocates accept it as a given that data are indeed ‘the raw material of the 21st century’. Photo: AFP

Germany’s attack on Facebook misses the point

4 min read . 28 Jan 2018

Facebook has been around since 2004, but its leadership on the media market is a very recent phenomenon. Photo: Reuters

Facebook’s new mission may be impossible

5 min read . 16 Jan 2018

The average American teenager who uses a smart phone receives her first phone at age 10 and spends over 4.5 hours a day on it (excluding texting and talking). Photo: AP

Tech addiction is a problem Apple won’t solve

5 min read . 09 Jan 2018

Buying the mostly groundless big data hype is, unfortunately, often the flip side of a healthy concern with privacy. Photo: Mint

Big data works only for those who hype it

3 min read . 09 Jan 2018