Hailo pulling in EUR1M per month in Dublin alone
based on these (pretty rough) estimates. Good going, I’m a massive fan
(tags: hailo taxis driving cars public-transport dublin b2c b2b)
Google Replaces MapReduce With New Hyper-Scale Cloud Analytics System
MR no more:
“We don’t really use MapReduce anymore,” [Urs] Hölzle said in his keynote presentation at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco Wednesday. The company stopped using the system “years ago.” Cloud Dataflow, which Google will also offer as a service for developers using its cloud platform, does not have the scaling restrictions of MapReduce. “Cloud Dataflow is the result of over a decade of experience in analytics,” Hölzle said. “It will run faster and scale better than pretty much any other system out there.”
(tags: map-reduce google hadoop cloud-dataflow scalability big-data urs-holzle google-io)
This Internet Millionaire Has a New Deal For You – D Magazine
Good interview with Dave “Woot” Rutledge, who’s now well out of Amazon and plans to get back into the crap-clearing business at Meh.com: ‘Amazon’s fundamental misunderstanding of what made Woot great can be seen today on the site. It sells many items simultaneously. It’s a marketplace, not an event. The write-ups are cute, not subversively funny. Woot is no longer a bug-eyed beast with eight tentacles. It’s a pancake with two smaller pancakes for Mickey Mouse ears and a smile made of whipped cream. In 2012, two years into his three-year deal with Amazon, Rutledge walked. He won’t say how many millions his early departure cost him, but his contract with Amazon included a three-year non-compete clause from the date of sale, and he was watching the clock.’
(tags: amazon ecommerce business b2c woot.com meh.com dave-rutledge selling acquisitions)