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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

Both Sides of the Table

The moderator asked each of us panelists the asinine question, “tell us what you’re doing about WAP!&# (you know, as in “tell us what you’re doing about China?&# But you need to think in terms of broader distribution. or “tell us what you’re doing about location-based services?&# ).

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

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Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities.

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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

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My first company was a SaaS software company started in 1999. That world is called China. Even in China. Because over time users will demand open. Lock users into proprietary rights management, distribution or consumption models? And I believe that people over time and given a choice rally around openness.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. China Lifts Spending as Growth Ebbs. Welcome, Logout.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. New industries never ask if it’s ok to sell a new raw material, they just take it and commercialise the demand for it. Right now there is only one country with digital sovereignty and that’s China! But when the web 2.0

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Enter the decentralized Internet.