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Amazon buys Whole Foods $13.4B
Okay so this caught most of the industry off their feet, with Amazon announcing they are getting into bricks’n’mortar business big time by buying a Whole Foods, the horrendously expensive supermarket.
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Email still the king of social networks
Around 40% of your emails are being tracked for marketing purposes.
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FaunaDB – Pay-as-you-Store/Query database
FaunaDB, from the technical team that led the Twitter database team, have come out and announced their offering of a new style of database aimed at the serverless model.
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Those blue signs are cheaper than you think
Not nearly as expensive as you would think to rent space on this most valuable of places on the highway.
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Verizon * (Yahoo + AOL) = Oath
Verizon has completed its long awaited purchase of Yahoo, for only $4.48B – cheap for what was one of the Internet’s cornerstone properties. Mayer, is out, but she can take some consolation with her $23M package.
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Tesla to charge cars exclusively from the sun
Elon Musk has thrown down the nay-sayers and stated that all supercharger stations will eventually be off-the-grid. Given their recent acquisition of Solar City this was always on the cards.
