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Be careful here. Despite announcing 42 price reductions over the 7 years of AWS existence, the M1 tier was only reduced for the first time in 3 years after Google/Azure dropped the…

Unfortunately, Uber in Australia is seeing some of the same myopic and special interest difficulties that Elon Musk and Tesla are in the US. To provide context, payment processing …

I researched this for myself a couple of years back and found a couple of things but only speak from my personal account: 1. There are a couple of different options, the first bein…

Agreed - there are thousands (tens of thousands?) of E-Commerce sites that have revenues in excess of $1m. It is staggering when you scratch the surface.

Not at all: 1. He is talking about how people actually make money out of E-Commerce - that is driving sales and ensuring you have a margin on what you sell. It is very myopic to be…

There is a beauty to a system that has been designed and implemented so effectively where almost every example will be a unique deployment yet simply work. There is a whole other l…

When I was at B-School, I would call up an alumnus at a company I was interested in working for and say, "I am going to be in your city/town this Friday, any chance for a coffee?".…

While I agree with your sentiment, I would like the article to drill down on the reported behaviour. What happens to those people who gave good early traction (the 4 quick repeat p…

The default position that all innovation comes only out of apple (vis the Apple keyboard comment) suggests that: 1. Apple marketing is still doing a great job convincing everyone t…

That none of the data is normalised for wider economic conditions seems to invalidate the findings of PC and Tablet numbers. Smartphone growth is nothing new. PC and Tablet growth …

Is this a result of the success of the 'old blogosphere' and mirroring the challenges of monetization so many tech companies are challenged by. 1. build an audience 2. start moneti…

While by no means trying to defend what the Koch's and their ilk are trying to achieve, there is a real underlying econmoic issue at play. Simply put, transmission networks (aka th…

While I love the concept of bitcoins and how they disintermediate the traditional currency structures (that just don't seem to work). However, seeing this makes you stop and realis…