WWGD? - The PowerPoint. Why Groupon and Living Social Are Doomed. For five long and very strange years, death haunted tiny Dryden, NY, a town near the Finger Lakes where a plague of car accidents, suicides, and even grisly murders involving two popular cheerleaders just kept mounting up.
At the end of Fargo, Frances McDormand’s police chief, Marge Gunderson, captures the psycho played by Peter Stormare. He’s in the backseat of her police cruiser and she talks to him as she drives. We see that she cannot fathom the evil she’s just seen. “And here ya are,” she says, “and it’s a beautiful day. Well, I just don’t understand it.” I am not surprised by violence or horror but still sometimes find myself struck, not unlike Marge, in a kind of a daze, unable to wrap my head around it. Why do horrible things happen? In the meantime, dig into “The Cheerleaders.” The Cheerleaders by E. Welcome to Dryden. If you live in Dryden, the kids from Ithaca, that cradle of metropolitan sophistication 15 miles away, will say you live in a “cow town.” It is strange. “What?”
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Find out at DataBeat, May 19-20 in San Francisco, from top data scientists, analysts, investors, and entrepreneurs. Register now and save $200! The enterprise is red-hot now, but pragmatic investors have been quietly investing for decades. According to technology research firm CB Insights, these investors will reap the rewards in the next few years. The firm’s Tech IPO Pipeline report found that 80 percent of the technology companies that will likely file for an initial public offering by the end of 2013 aim their products at businesses, rather than consumers.
Business-to-business (B2B) companies like Workday and Splunk experienced stellar IPOs this year, fueling interest in the space. “The chatter about enterprise startups is more a function of the fact that consumer startups look less appealing [to investors] more than anything else,” said CB Insights’ CEO Anand Sanwal. . $100 bill image via Shutterstock. Australian online commerce to hit $37billion by 2013. « eCommerce Report. Australian online commerce is now forecast to be worth as much as $37.7 billion by the year 2013, according to Forrester research cited in a new report released this week by Paypal Australia.
The figure for 2011 is expected to be around $30.2billion, up from $27billion in 2010. Growth in Australian ecommerce is expected to be once again over 12% throughout next year, after dipping slightly to 11.7% this year.PayPal Australia managing director, Frerk-Malte Feller, launched the “Secure Insight” report this morning at the Westin Hotel in downtown Melbourne. He forecast not just growth, but change as well. “New technologies and new business models are radically altering the retail landscape as we know it. Consumers are connecting through local, digital, social and mobile channels that add relevance and convenience to their lives. Be Sociable, Share! Think smartphones are ubiquitous now? Just wait a few years. Cost Of Living Comparison Between Australia And United States. E-commerce Landscape 2012. Infographic: Australian online spending trends. Ebay Niches. THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL [SLIDE DECK]
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