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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

The answer can be found in the theory of economic rents, and in particular, in the kinds of rents that are collected by companies during different stages of the technology business cycle. Then the cycle begins again with a new class of competitors, who are forced to explore new, disruptive technologies that reset the entire market.

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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc. The tech economy suffered greatly in the wake of the dot-com bubble bursting in 2000.

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What are the best multi-browser testing tools?

Testsigma

With over 2000 desktop browsers, real iOS and Android devices — it comes with a highly flexible platform that lets us create test suites for diverse browsers and versions. MultiBrowser supports testing on all versions of Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Internet Explorer 11. Best Multi-browser Testing Tools. Picture Credit: MultiBrowser.

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AV1 Image File Format (AVIF)

KeyCDN

The major application for high quality compression of photos is Internet speed. While bandwidth does continue to increase each year, so does the quality and size of most Internet media. Options such as JPEG 2000, WebP, and HEIF are all available and have experienced success in one form or another.

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Automate cross-browser testing: What you need to know

Testsigma

Technological development and robust testing have helped us reach where we are. Browsers – Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Edge, UC Browser, Opera, etc. Testsigma – AI, NLP, cloud-based, codeless platform with 2000+ devices and multiple test lab access. – Thorsten Heins. But how did we come so far?

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Top 3 Challenges in Cross Browser Testing and How to Tackle Them

Testsigma

Since the beginning of the internet era, browsers and websites have lived co-dependently. Starting from the internet explorer, then to the Mozilla project and now to at least six major browsers in the market, we have evolved quite well. But browsers and web development technologies do not seem to be in a happy relationship.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. Master the many facets of delivering high performance images on the internet—without adversely affecting site performance. High Performance Browser Networking. Time is Money. How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance.