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by whoismua 12y ago
And I am going to go out on a limb... Everything you said is in early stages or very limited markets. Sure Google has bought a lot of things and rushes to do press releases but what can be bought in the store right now? GFiber in a few ci
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by whoismua 12y ago
As a consumer with children, it's a major hassle to go to the grocery store with my kids in tow. It's also unacceptable to wait 2 days to get what I order. Not sure if someone else picking them for you is the same. Maybe one day
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by whoismua 12y ago
Why specifically? History is long, think of Einstein, the person that invented the penicillin, vaccines, the transistor.... Search engines existed before Page, granted not as good but they existed. Google rode the internet explosion, wherea
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by whoismua 12y ago
"This is a group of people who built social at Google against the skepticism of so many.” Well, he does have a sense of humor. They sure built it, I see many obscure names ranking on search engines...only to see an G+ empty page (alo
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by whoismua 12y ago
Bottom line: this is an easier way for Google to steal your information. Once they steal it, you will get almost no traffic as Google will show the answers themseleves
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by whoismua 12y ago
More amusing is that I/O is a conference of how to use Google services and platforms[0]. Really, look at it. It's almost entirely talks on how to build products for their p platforms and pay-to-use APIs. Presumably the developer
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by whoismua 13y ago
That makes for some great PR but that's about it. Ironically, the first casualty of lower earnings growth will be the side projects. Voting shares or not, shareholder holding $300 Billion will vote at least by selling some and that hur
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by whoismua 13y ago
Google is killing more and more companies. for Google to continue their artificial growth of 20+%, they need to send less people to other sites and more to YouTube, G+...hoping they click on ads. Google is eating its tail
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by whoismua 13y ago
Nokia brand was not sold IIRC, it stayed with Nokia. Microsoft had a license for a few years and that's all. On one hand the OS is Microsoft, on the other Microsoft just isn't hip and has baggage from past years. It's a dilem
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by whoismua 13y ago
So my initial feeling is it's not quite as catastrophic as it sounds. Would love to hear from somebody better-informed, though. If all is spread evenly. But as you said, currents and other factors might cause troubles in a few areas.
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by whoismua 13y ago
Has anyone done any study on what % of ads are accidentally clicked? You know an ad here and five there could add to $billions. Ads that look like content and ads that are easy to click by accident are designed that way.
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by whoismua 13y ago
Of course they'll settle. They have the money and hate for more embarrassing and illegal stuff to come out in public. But now the DOJ will undoubtedly charge and jail the characters that broke the law? Planing or doing something illega
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by whoismua 13y ago
Nice try but "culture," "family," "our values," and all that crap goes right out of the window when things go south or when the company decides to save a few bucks. Seen it a lot of times to make it a trend.
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by whoismua 13y ago
Safe rides fee....Well, $1 is worth it. hell, take $2 just so the driver inflates the tires properly.
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by whoismua 13y ago
She never had any real options, no offense meant. her appointment was more of a Hail Mary of sorts. After Alibaba is public, they'll sell their stake and buy themselves a few more years...and then linger forever ala AOL. >> A rec
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by whoismua 13y ago
Meaning that Yahoo's actual business -- Yglesias calls it "Tumblr and Flickr and the iOS weather app that I love and all the news sites and the mail and the fantasy sports stuff" -- is worth a negative amount of money Poor
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by whoismua 13y ago
I don't get this: Yahoo uses Bing so why would Yahoo be able to pay more or offer better service than Microsoft? Seems just like a middleman to me. Maybe it's more palatable to IOS users since the "evil empire" is not in
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by whoismua 13y ago
What's you point? The VAST majority of people who type "london hotels" are looking to BUY a hotel room in London for the night. And extremely expensive ads are the only way to help users???? The advertiser and Google don&#x
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Fired Yahoo exec gets $58M for 15 months of work(finance.yahoo.com)
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by whoismua 13y ago
Ah poor Marc, he only deals in real numbers. Wall Street is what it is but generally you can tell them don't expect much growth in the next 4-5 years and they'll adjust their expectations and share price. Coca Cola has a very diff
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by whoismua 13y ago
Relevant and useful is a nice buzzword. People will also want unbiased and cheapest.
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by whoismua 13y ago
Put some money behind it! Maybe you're right.. "Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent." comes to mind ...I was right two years ago but Google continues to surprise me with their audaci
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by whoismua 13y ago
Why isn't Google suffering a backlash and lost share due to this http://digitalgrowth.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/googl... ? I cannot use them without ad blockers, I suppose I'm not the o
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by whoismua 13y ago
But I think their growth is artificial and not sustainable. It's obvious that their growth has been achieved by adding more ads to the pages even as their CPC is crashing. .
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by whoismua 13y ago
Google is overpriced IMO, their PE has been at around 30 for quite a while. At their size it's extremely hard, if not impossible to keep growth at level to justify the high PE. Google's PE should be around 15-20, max. Personally,
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by whoismua 13y ago
Before this is settled, the tax code should be made simpler with black or white options. A tax preparer saved me a few thousand dollars once by asking the right questions (school tuition). The same for my corp CPA. The "free" tax
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by whoismua 13y ago
" Freelancer.com, which was founded back in 2009, has acquired several companies over the years — including tech freelance jobs site vWorker/RentACoder and IT marketplace Scriptlance, both in 2012. More recently (this March) it p
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by whoismua 13y ago
Not to diminish the work that goes into building a successful forum (most fail), but that's a nice out. With the right strategy it can even FU money.
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by whoismua 13y ago
tl; dr "1.3 Findings Summary During this engagement, the iSEC team identified eleven (11) issues in the assessed areas. Most issues were of severity Medium (four (4) found) or Low (four (4) found), with an additional
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by whoismua 13y ago
Most likely. During the 2008-2009 crisis, I read that even the super-rich had concerns about their future. The human mind is amazing with so many what-ifs. "Enough," for me would mean at least $4-$5 Million and then living in many

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