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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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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Most of this article represents an overview of the results published by retailers and researchers who built practical decision making and optimization systems combining abstract economic models with data mining methods. The most typical use cases for this problem are recommender systems, personalized search results ranking, and targeted ads.

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

Strategic Tech

The system needs to be highly reliable because even just a little downtime can alienate loyal customers. 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.

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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.