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New data suggests Google’s Amazon nightmare could get even worse
For years now, Amazon has been considered the biggest threat to possibly erode Google's core search-advertising business. Google's search business makes the most money when people use it to search for products they intend to buy online. But a lot of those people are...
5 Ways Startups Can Beat Big Companies
One of the most intimidating things entrepreneurs face is the fact that some of their competitors are massive multi-billion dollar corporations. Everyone knows the story of David and Goliath; occasionally the underdog wins. But in the real world, the giant wins a lot...
Dropbox users can collaborate easily with the new teams feature
Here's how it works: Users can create a team folder to keep files in one place. Group members added to the team folder will have access to all the files within that folder. Anyone added to that team will have immediate access to everything, even if they're added later...
Google should be very scared of what Amazon built, according to investor Bill Gurley
Bill Gurley, one of the smartest thinkers in the technology industry, did a big interview last week at the Sailthru e-commerce conference. During the interview, he said he saw shades of 1999 in some companies getting millions of dollars in venture funding. Those...
Microsoft has created its own version of Linux — a product Steve Ballmer once likened to ‘cancer’
This week, Microsoft unveiled Azure Cloud Switch, a boring-sounding product that's only interesting to developers and IT professionals working on the bleeding edge of networking technology. The scandalous part is actually under the hood: Azure Cloud Switch is, at the...
Google’s codebase is ludicrously huge for good reason
Google's codebase -- the programming instructions that run every one of its services from Gmail to Slides -- span a whopping 2 billion lines of code that stretch across 1 billion files and require 86 terabytes of storage, according to Google engineering manager Rachel...