You already know that dating sites try to get as many people to get on the platform as possible, then force them to pay to contact each other. But this is only the outside edge of their business model. Underneath… Continue Reading
Ok Bitcoin lovers, what is this chart of? If you said NOT Bitcoin, well done. If you said Bitcoin, bad luck, this is Bitcoin. What you were looking at is Microsoft. People are obsessed with arguing over whether Bitcoin is… Continue Reading
In contrast to Android, we do not have an angry law suit to help us at get to the bottom of how much money YouTube is making. Estimates for 2015 revenues vary from six to nine billion dollars. That’s wide… Continue Reading
You ever see those internet memes where a cat adopts a mouse? Funny enough that’s what popped into my head when I started researching Credit Karma. Image: pixelvector via Reddit Credit scores are an industry built around the misery and… Continue Reading
Sometimes I am intimidated by a Make Money topic. Not because it is huge but because they are so superficially simple. Kickstarter raises money from individuals for creative projects. It is deeply entwined with the beautiful idea of crowd sourcing.… Continue Reading
The other day, my wife says to me “what did you do before Pokémon Go?” Meet my surly wife. And the Drowzee living in my sink! Welcome to Pokemon Go Early estimates are that one in ten Americans have downloaded… Continue Reading
And watch how the open internet is being consumed by the Borg. These four maps are from Statcounter. They chart out the leading internet browsers by country. Back in 2008 Microsoft’s Klingon empire had leveraged its dominance in desktop personal… Continue Reading
It’s the of summer of 2016 and Microsoft just bought LinkedIn for $26 billion dollars. What’s that all about? Had they just got sick and tired of all those pointless endorsements? To find out, we’ve got to start by exploring… Continue Reading
For five minutes every day, when I can pull myself away from my Pokemon, I go on Duolingo to practice my French. It is slick and it is free. You may have never heard of Duolingo, but it is no… Continue Reading
Early in 2014, Facebook paid $19 billion for WhatsApp. It had over 400m users, and therefore sold up for $47 a user. As is often the case with ground breaking acquisitions, Facebook confirmed that apps and users were worth something,… Continue Reading