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Framework Benchmarks Round 10

TechEmpower

We retired our in-house i7-2600K hardware environment for Round 10, and we changed our Amazon EC2 environment to c3.large We provide web and mobile application development services and are passionate about application performance. large instances. About TechEmpower.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. After all, when I’m in Facebook they know one hell of a lot more about me than Google does.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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According to Google data 30% of all restaurant searches now come via mobile devices. When you look at the developing world this is the majority of users (due to lack of landline infrastructure) and it portends future opportunities in payments, entertainment, application development and services.