MZ (Machine Zone) Archives - Lawrence W. Abrams

MZ (Machine Zone) and Its Satori Platform

An Outline of an Decentralized Alternative to the Order Book A Decentralized Alternative to the Order Book Machine Zone (MZ): A $10 Billion Dollar Unicorn in the Making Edge Computing Use Cases for MZ’s (Machine Zone) Platform Machine Zone and The Perversity of Unicorn Lists Machine Zone (MZ): A $4 Billion […]

The Facebook – Google Duopoly — Where They Differ?

Summary: Facebook and Google differ fundamentally in the degree of adtech vertical integration. Facebook only has a significant internal supply side platform (SSP). Google has a significant SSP, ad exchange, and a demand side platform (DSP). Facebook recognizes that its supply of ad impressions has reached a ceiling due to user annoyance of ads in […]

“Lemons” and Antitrust: Why Facebook and MZ Are AdTech Frenemies — DSP Cognant

(Postscript: July 11, 2018) Adexchanger reported that MZ has shut down its independent DSP business Cognant and laid off all 125 employees as well as half of its in-house media buyers. (Published: March 1, 2018) Summary: Facebook has deflected the antitrust case against it by assisting independent demand side platforms (DSPs) like MZ’s (Machine Zone’s) […]

Edge Computing Use Cases for MZ’s (Machine Zone) Platform

This is an expanded answer to a Quora question that I posted on August 6, 2017 Machine Zone (MZ) describes its new “RTplatform” as capable of “high-fanout” and “many-to-many” apps. What are the use cases for this? I wrote a blogpost about 1 1/2 year ago valuing MZ. At the end, I suggested a few […]

Machine Zone (MZ): A $10 Billion Dollar Unicorn in the Making

(Original publication date: 6/7/16) (Our suggested “moonshot” for MZ: ending urban traffic congestion via a real-time pricing platform + “connected car”) (Our suggested new tagline for MZ: “put a price on it.” Shoutout to Portlandia for its “put a bird on it” tagline for a hand-crafted gift store capturing its big picture strategy) Short Postscript […]