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I believe they did - I've used this - full instructions here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/b?ie=UTF8&node=17337655031

Switzerland is not that densely populated. It’s 219 per square km. For context Florida is about 150 and California about 100. Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state…

Better align executive pay with business performance from the beginning. If the business is failing then parting company with the CEO is working as intended.

Agree completely. The biggest threat I see to this though is Apple Pay (for mobile web). When sites integrate with this properly, it enables them to match the Amazon experience. No…

Indeed - Monzo has 50% of challenger bank market share. N26 was almost behind Revolut and Starling and had little traction in the UK. Source: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/sa…

It's a lot smaller than you think these days with all the effort that has gone into it. Google reports an average PUE[1] of 1.11 over the past year, 1.09 over the past quarter, and…

That is extremely rare at google these days. The average tech manager has more like 6-8 directs.

A checking account is what is called a current account in several other English speaking countries.

There's many factors at play here, but note that the majority of Internet subscriber growth is in developing countries. As the spending power of the average Internet user decreases…

What makes you think that?

3/8 or 3.0.0.0/8 means the IP address range from 3.0.0.0 to 3.255.255.255 - this is 2^24 or 16.7M IP addresses. Why does Amazon want it? - Amazon has a lot of customers who want EC…

It's not entirely true that in Europe that software patents don't exist. From: https://fsfe.org/campaigns/swpat/swpat.en.html "The European Patent Convention states that software i…

Note those charts are FY2016. With the growth of cloud, I suspect those ratios have changed considerably.

It’s not been hard to get more than those returns in recent history. The Nasdaq-100 total returns have been 32% last year and 155% over the past five years. This is a average of ju…

augmented reality. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality

This misses the fact that much of that UK figure is FTTC (Fiber to the Cabinet). E.g. I live in the rural UK and have a 'Cable' line that is 200Mbps down/12Mbps up. Given most cons…

If you look at the value of ARM's $-denominated ADRs http://www.google.co.uk/finance?cid=662445 This is basically a measure ARM's value in $. You will see any value in the fall the…

The phrase that Amazon used when launching lambda was 'deploy code not servers'. To me this sums up what 'serverless' means. It means the developer doesn't have to worry about serv…

From: http://www.eurostar.com/uk-en/about-eurostar/press-office/pr... "Eurostar, the high-speed passenger rail service between the UK and mainland Europe, today reported the highes…

But that isn't an immediate expense it's a balance sheet asset written off over a period of time.

Singapore has a very impressive GDP per capita, but it is massively skewed by external investment (with money that often flows straight back out of the country again), construction…

I agree completely and like you for a long time I didn't use ad-blockers on morale grounds. Personally I don't get overly excited about the tracking/re-targeting, but what did both…

There is a similar story appearing in UK in places like London and in my home town of Cambridge. This isn't yet not he same scale, but it is affecting the property market. In Cambr…

The deal is probably similar to the way an airline buys planes. E.g consider when Ryanair bought 200 737s for $22Bn [1] which is about the same in it's entire market cap. An order …

Sensationalist title and also misleading. Most articles I can find on this say the US FCC already has laws in place that ban this, so why is the title blaming Europe for doing what…