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Why Eric Schmidt doesn’t know how Google works | VentureBeat | Entrepreneur | by Tom Cheredar
According to the company’s 2013 financial filings, 83 percent of Google’s revenue came from ads, about 7 percent from Motorola which is now gone, and 10 percent from everything else. In other words, when you add up all the revenue from Google Apps Gmail, Docs, Drive, Maps, etc. together with the Android and other mobile […]
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Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds | Books | The Guardian
the performance was largely similar, except when it came to the timing of events in the story. “The Kindle readers performed significantly worse on the plot reconstruction measure, ie, when they were asked to place 14 events in the correct order.” via Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds | Books | […]
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When it comes to market capitalization, Facebook is officially bigger than IBM — Tech News and Analysis
“This Friday, August 8th, the stock market closed for the week with Facebook still holding a bigger market cap at $190 billion compared to IBM at $186 billion. It’s an impressive shift, given that Facebook is a much smaller company by other metrics. It has 7,185 employees to IBM’s 431,212, $7.87 billion in 2013 revenue […]
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Amazon Kindle post reveals what’s behind its feud with Hachette.
“In its post, Amazon makes a mathematical plea for why most e-books should be priced at $9.99, instead of $14.99 or $19.99, given that they don’t require printing, storage, or transportation. The company says it’s found that e-books priced at $9.99 sell 1.74 more copies than when they’re priced at $14.99. If you carry that […]
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YouTube’s 2013 revenue was reportedly $3.5 billion — Tech News and Analysis
“YouTube generated $3.5 billion in revenue for Google in 2013, according to a report from the Information, which also states that the video service was profitable last year. However, that number is below analyst estimates, which put YouTube’s 2013 revenue anywhere from $5 billion to $5.6 billion.” via YouTube’s 2013 revenue was reportedly $3.5 billion […]
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A Tumblr Chronicles Google Art Project Copyright Fails
“… many museum collections house works that cannot be seen through the service due to copyright restrictions on the pieces. Thus, the 360-degree museum tours occasionally display a work that is blurred. This may make for a strange sight during your virtual travels, as well as a mysterious guessing game that a Tumblr called Righted […]