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Ecommerce: How to Survive its Troughs

ReadWriteStart

Brands started working towards creating their online portals to push for sales online while continuing their brick and mortar operations. Dell – the American multinational computer technology firm had broken the barrier of a million-dollar online sales back in 1994. By 2009, the success of this ecommerce model was more evident.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. What We Discovered About Blockchain The Afro-Tech approached blockchain and distributed ledger as how it will affect African-Americans in everyday living.

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Your Computer May Already be Hacked – NSA Inside?

Steve Blank

After a particularly embarrassing math bug in 1994 that cost Intel $475 million, the company decided to fix the problem by allowing it’s microprocessors to load fixes automatically when your computer starts. The microcode is distributed by 1) Intel or by 2) Microsoft integrated into a BIOS or 3) as part of a Windows update.

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Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part I

Ben's Blog

Similarly, Google, well on its way to owning the dominant smart phone operating system and which maintains a near monopoly position in search, trades at a price/earnings (P/E) ratio (ex-cash) of around 13.7. Firstly, the cost of running an internet application has fallen 100-fold. Secondly, developers are more productive.

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12 Questions: Meet Angus Griffin (England)

crowdSPRING Blog

We also arrived at a rather pivotal and pertinent time in South African history, just after President Nelson Mandela was brought into power in 1994. Design fees are at a 1993 level, despite salary increases and operation costs. The change of scenery, school, country and living style just blew me away.

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12 Questions: Meet Angus Griffin (England)

crowdSPRING Blog

We also arrived at a rather pivotal and pertinent time in South African history, just after President Nelson Mandela was brought into power in 1994. Design fees are at a 1993 level, despite salary increases and operation costs. The change of scenery, school, country and living style just blew me away.

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? And why should these transactions cost the poor more than they cost the wealthy?

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