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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

This book is about the network, from fundamental limitations that affect performance to major innovations for building even more powerful browser applications. This book shares guidelines and innovative techniques that will help you plan and execute a comprehensive SEO strategy. ” – Andy King, 2003. Time is Money.

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A Clash of Mindsets: When New Products Depend on Existing Products

Strategic Tech

The Nature of Evolution New innovations often become the platform for future innovations. Google Maps started life in 2005 as a desktop application for getting from point A to point B. Since then, Google Maps has become the foundation for many other innovations after being opened up to developers via APIs.

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For years, tech firms were fighting a war for talent. Now they are waging war on talent.

The Agile Manager

By 2005, the tech economy had bounced back on its own. Culture eats strategy for breakfast” is relevant when labor has the upper hand on management because culture is a social phenomenon: it is in the heads and hearts of humans. That didn’t last long.

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Are Microservices to Ecosystems as Core Competencies were to Conglomerates?

The Agile Manager

As far back as the 19th century, industrial firms pursued vertical integration strategies. This was important because, for large industrial firms, competing on price was the primary strategy for winning market share. By the 1980s, both strategies had begun to lose favor. But the operating benefits weren't there, either.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. Jain, 2005. van Ryzin, 2005. Jannach, M. Felfernig, G. Friedrich, 2010.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms.

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