Bill Wasik:

If digital imperialism is happening -- if smartphones and other gadgets are bearing cultural freight as they cross borders -- there is little doubt as to which nation's values are hiding in the hold.

Mike Isaac:

For Google, payments are a hook to reel people into its ecosystem of services and another way to gain insight about consumers.

ZestFinance's motto:

All data is credit data.

Christopher Gates:

Our shared conversations are increasingly taking place in privately owned and managed walled gardens, which means that the politics that occur in such conversations are subject to private rules.

Brian Barrett:

A whopping 73 percent of Facebook's $3.32 billion advertising revenue (which accounts for nearly all Facebook revenue) came from mobile devices last quarter. Nearly nine out of 10 Facebook users accessed the service from a mobile device in that same time. As a result, according to IHS, Facebook owns 46.8 percent of mobile display ad revenue worldwide. Google comes in a distant second at 23.6 percent, and Twitter is the only other company that hits double digits.