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Airbnb valued at $100 billion following blockbuster IPO — equivalent of more than five Expedias

GeekWire

Airbnb was founded in 2008, nine years after Microsoft spun off Expedia into a public company. Meanwhile, its net loss more than doubled to $696 million for the first nine months of this year, sparked in part by the decline in the travel business due to COVID-19. By comparison, Expedia Group posted revenue of $4.2 billion.

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: NJVC® Announces the.

Cloud Musings

Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. ► 2008. Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Comments.

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Open Group Publishes Guidelines on Cloud Computing ROI

Cloud Musings

Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Describes approaches to measuring this ROI, absolutely and in comparison with traditional approaches to IT, by giving an overview of Cloud Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and metrics.

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GI Partners Buys LA Telecom Hub One Wilshire » Data Center.

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: Texas Cloud Computing.

Cloud Musings

Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. The cloudMatrix software helped to normalize the multiple services available, creating an “apples-to-apples” comparison in pricing and functionality as much as possible. ► 2008.

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We’re all addicted to cheap stuff — and Temu knows it

Vox

But wait, there was more — if I checked out in the next 10 minutes, I could net a cool $300. That pales in comparison to Amazon’s estimated annual GMV of about $477 billion , but it’s head-spinning for a company that hadn’t even reached its first birthday. The spinner landed on “1 more chance.” I spun again, and this time, I won $200.

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Sen. Ed Markey on the politics of technology

The Verge

He has been a proponent of net neutrality, first proposing a bill in 2005. You wrote the National Broadband Plan in 2008. NP: The context in 2008 was obviously the Great Recession. So that’s the debate that I had with him over net neutrality. Net neutrality was actually baked into the personality of the internet, right?

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