FB is nothing but a media company, with a news feed that resembles live TV, albeit personalized and "customisable" to an extent.

In any publicly listed for profit media corp the tussle will be between the editorial department which wants full control on content vs marketing / sales which needs sales from selling space. FB has no editorial department, its the users for most part and algos, but marketing / sales is where FB earns its valuation and profile.

What do marketing/sales do? Sell space on news feed, and sell user data.

I feel FB will be profitable even if it stops selling user data. But then almighty greed.

The only plus for current fiasco..."FB boy for POTUS" is DOA.

Hyperloop is the new Segway.

Think of days before Facebook, the supposedly available "free time" was not "invested" anywhere.

The folks who planned this should be given the Darwin award. May be Nobel too. They are worthy of both.

Your ugly and silly rant aside, I have not heard a cogent argument Britain staying outside EU will be good for it. Also, I have not heard a persuasive argument what can replace globalism/NAFTA or whatever.

Hmmm...

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

Some hankee and pankee did happen.

Hmmm....

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

The report is about Brexit. But it can be easily applied to US...the players are the same, the same agenda (though I have no clue what they want other than some chaos.)

They should collaborate, co-mingle or do some sort of strategic conaplication. They are made for each other.

If that's indeed the business model (create market share, move to self driving vehicles), what will stop from any of their competitors to replicate this model with cheaper self-driven transportation?

Yahoo had "huuuge" market share. It may still have.

Any rental company teaming with a software shop has a good shot. Even a ZipCar type of outfit.

I guess Uber got lucky. The guy running the outfit seems to be your garden variety sociopath and has run out of ideas. What they need is someone like Zuckerberg (he's indeed good, you can like/dislike Facebook.)

Aadhar may have flaky back-end systems, and will be exposed/leaked/hacked any day from now. (They use the super champion web-scale Mongo DB.)

Its a good idea, the benefits may outweigh the concerns. That said I do not know why they wanted bio-metric info other than the dudes championing Aadhar had big brother ideas. The ex CEO of Infosys - Nandan Nilekani - was heading Aadhar. He's one of those smart rich fools. He became popular among the East coast crowd when the other smart not-so-rich fool Thomas Friedman quoted him on NYT saying "world is flat".

Started typing "Twitter..." in the subject line and "Twitter and profit" auto-completed from a previous post.

Twitter should consider themselves as a not-for-profit service, retain its independence and so on. (May be the business model of Craigslist.) For that to happen, the current management and the VCs need to be nuked from the orbit.

Oh well, this is like comparing a Tatamobile with a Ford 150. Its not even Apples to Oranges.

Why is this bigotry? The claim in the report/article is absolute nonsense. It does not matter if the claim came from Jesus Christ or Mohamed or Siva or Buddha!

The PR guys wanted to show their boss in good light. But when making such claims please make sure its somewhat reasonable.

You are a class A moron and a liar. I did not say Kerala's education spend is Rs 220 CR, I said "office expenses" would include cost of software.

Yes, and what does that entail? Salary to teachers/staff.

What silly nonsense! Add software costs which NASA uses to send rockets out of solar system and you will get a $5000 per machine figure. Then the cost savings will be even higher. And the idiots behind the PR release may get free PAZHAM PORI from the morons running the scheme.

They are talking about savings based on money they don't have.

The linked report says the assessment is based on Rs 150K ($2200) per machine cost for using proprietary stuff. No government in India will spend that sort of money on software licenses, forget about the spent on educational sector. This is imaginary stuff.

Here's the annual budget for the state of Kerala - https://kerala.gov.in/documents/10180/3793571/Revised%20Budget%202016-17_3 Go to page 4, and you can see a section for "Office Expenses" (which should include hardware, software, chairs, hammocks, water coolers, desks, fans and whatever else) for the whole state, including Department of Education - its Rs 220 CR, less than the claimed cost savings.

Its like claiming "I saved $100 million when I decided not to purchase an Airbus."

I am from Kerala. I have heard about the chappie mentioned in the report...a self aggrandizing fool.