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Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights
Find inspiration for where to go, decide what neighborhood to stay in, and book flights and hotels with more confidence at google.com/travel.
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The market figured out Gitlab’s secret
Why we decided to combine version control with CI, and the rise of the single application.
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It’s worth spending weeks on research before wasting years on a hopeless project
Launching a product without research rarely leads to success, unless you have 50-plus years experience in the market and in the niche of a product. To those who are not that old and not that wise, the following steps will help to reduce the risk of wasting your efforts.
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Terminating Service for 8Chan
The mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio are horrific tragedies. In the case of the El Paso shooting, the suspected terrorist gunman appears to have been inspired by the forum website known as 8chan.
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How Biotech Startup Funding Will Change in the Next 10 Years
Back when YC was getting started about 10 years ago, Paul Graham wrote some [http://www.paulgraham.com/webstartups.html] essays [http://www.paulgraham.com/future.html] that predicted the way startup fundraising would change in the next decade – accurately, it turns out. Paul Graham predicted that there would be way…
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Activision Blizzard has moved billions of dollars of profit into tax havens
Our research reveals how the publisher of hit games including Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Candy Crush moved €5bn to companies in Bermuda and Barbados between 2013-2017.
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What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and Elsevier
The UC Negotiating Team Ivy Anderson, (Co-Chair), Associate Executive Director of the California Digital Library; Jeffrey MacKie-Mason (Co-Chair), University Librarian and Professor, School of Information and Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley; Günter Waibel, Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of the…
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Network Effects That Don’t Look Like Network Effects
Many of the most consequential projects of the internet era — from Wikipedia to Facebook and bitcoin — have all been predicated on network effects, where the network becomes more valuable to users as more people use it. As a result, we’ve become really good at analyzing and measuring network effects. Whether it’s…
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Time, Randomness, and a $100k Prize to Forever Change Blockchain
Announcing an open source hardware competition to change how blocks (as in blockchain) are produced using far less energy. And on the way, finding a solution to move from proof of work to proof of stake.
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Building Payments for an Insurance Startup
This post is a guide to the operational, money movement elements of building an insurance company. We build a system for a regular monthly charge and a claim payout.
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A Behind the Scenes Take on Lithium-ion Battery Prices
Automakers and policy makers are increasingly voicing their belief that the passenger vehicle of the future will be powered (partially or fully) by electricity. There remains, however, a lack of consensus on the timing and speed of the transition, in large part due to differing opinions on current and future…
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Report on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still privacy risks remaining
On behalf of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security, Privacy Company has investigated the privacy risks related to the use of Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise, Office 365 ProPlus and Office Online, as well as the mobile Office apps. With the Ministry’s permission, we are publishing two blog posts about our…
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The Library Card Project: The Ease of Forming Anonymous Companies in the U.S.
As it happens, more corporations – anonymous and public – are established in the United States each year than in any other jurisdiction.
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Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering Managers
A system for leveling up at Square
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Apple to acquire the majority of Intel's smartphone modem business
Approximately 2,200 Intel employees will join Apple, along with intellectual property, equipment and leases.
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A History of Visa
INTRODUCTION Visa is one of the biggest companies in the world. Cards bearing the Visa logo are used more than 340 million times every day. And the Visa brand is one of the most-recognized on the planet. Yet unlike other companies of similar size and ubiquity, few people know what Visa does, how
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Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI to support us building artificial general intelligence (AGI) with widely distributed economic benefits. We’re partnering to develop a hardware and software platform within Microsoft Azure which will scale to AGI. We’ll jointly develop new Azure AI supercomputing…
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Examples to compare OCR services: Amazon vs. Google vs. Microsoft
We're building a note app that needs to do OCR as well as possible. We hoped there would be a good modern 2019 comparison of the image OCR services, but as of July 2019, there wasn't, so we wrote one.
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DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple Maps
Earlier this year we announced that we're using Apple's MapKit JS framework to power our mapping features. Today, we're excited to show you some new improvements.
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Substack
Reading — and especially writing — was once a privilege of the elite. In the medieval ages, the ability to create and distribute books was in the hands of very few: It would take weeks and even months for a scribe in a monastery to copy books, and only members of the church or nobility...
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A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit
An overview on the basics behind how we quantify product-market fit at Tribe Capital. These are the underpinnings of our underwriting framework.
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Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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You Only Need to Test with 5 Users (2000)
Elaborate usability tests are a waste of resources. The best results come from testing no more than 5 users and running as many small tests as you can afford.