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by avrionov 4y ago
Palantir 19 years old - 2021 R&D expenses were 25%, 2020 - 50% https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/PLTR/income-statement RingCentral - 23 years old - R&D Expenses increasing for the last 3 or 4 years https:&#
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Younger than the other companies on your list. Microsoft is 47 years old.
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Thank you for the post. Twitter is also the youngest company on your list. The percent spent on R&D goes done when the company get older.
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by avrionov 4y ago
Speaking about Nero: One of the best names for a software product: "Nero Burning ROM". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Burning_ROM
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> - they've reached GOOG, AAPL, and MSFT size now, Amazon is much bigger than GOOG, MSFT and APPL now. They have more employees and bigger revenue than the other FAANG companies. In the US only Walmart has more employees and bigger
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by avrionov 4y ago
The global advertising revenue is projected to grow for the next 5 years [1]: There is too much extrapolation in this thread from the results of 1 company in 1 quarter. [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/236943&#x2
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Here are Twitter financials for the last year. Revenue $5,078 (in millions) Cost of Revenue $1,798 35.40% Sales and Admin $1,760 34.67% R&D $1,247 24.55% Interest $52 1.02% Unusual Items $441 8.69% Their biggest expense 34.40% i
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> "Instead, they made a separate device. This was, from the perspective of desktop integration, 100% indistinguishable from any of the other offerings out there. " They made a device which was worse than all of the existing dev
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by avrionov 4y ago
I don't think this is a good advice in general and I haven't seen many companies to do it practice. The initial decisions which a company makes most of the time are hard to change. Moving a successful business with clients from o
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by avrionov 4y ago
The article doesn't answer the question. The list is also missing 2 of the big names which announced layoffs Oracle and Citrix. For more detailed and depressing discussion about layoffs check [1]. [1] https://www.thelayoff.c
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Amazon’s set to launch its prototype internet satellites early next year(theverge.com)
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I should take a look. I never owned Radeon.
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It is a relative bargain, but I missed the time when I can build entire PC for $1,599 and play most games well.
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by avrionov 4y ago
Two minute papers [1] is very good YouTube channel. Follows mostly papers related to video and graphics. [1] https://www.youtube.com/c/K%C3%A1rolyZsolnai
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by avrionov 4y ago
Some of them of caught and arrested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Bitfinex_hack
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by avrionov 4y ago
According to Wikipedia they employ 85k. 10% of that is a big deal. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Platforms
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by avrionov 4y ago
More information about the longer term project. This is just the first step: - Google promised to invest $1B in Africa - Google will build subsea cable will cut across South Africa, Namibia, Nigeria and St Helena, connecting Africa and Euro
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by avrionov 4y ago
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
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Meta’s shutting down its Substack competitor after less than two years(theverge.com)
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It is not going to be good. The combined company had to pay back $16.5B. Just the interest will be $1B per year.
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TIBCO is not buying Citrix. Vista and Elliot bought Citrix and merged it with TIBCO which was owned by Vista.
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This article explains some of the background and how the banks lost money on the deal: https://prospect.org/power/griftrix-citrix-systems-debt-deal...
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Citrix acquired and merged with Tibco for $16.5B(cloud.com)
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Google Chrome the most popular browser in the world. Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets) more than 1B users
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GMail was internal project.
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Here is paper from the Atlanta Fed which tries to explain the effect of QT [1] "I show that a passive roll-off of $2.2 trillion over three years is equivalent to an increase of 29 basis points in the current federal funds rate at norm
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The games are going to adapt to the new cards and 3080 performance will go down with the latest and the greatest. It always happen.
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At the end of the movie "Crumb" he moves to France.
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by avrionov 4y ago
That's not how I understood it. 48MP are available only in ProRaw format.
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SNL did a sketch about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZRzJJcq6Rs

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