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So why is Amazon so good in virtually every industry it gets into? The answer: Amazon isn’t a tech company or a cloud company or a diapers or books or healthcare company. It’s an infrastructure company.[1452] Amazon’s decades of success in e-commerce has led it to build up hundreds of strategically-placed warehouses,[1453] titanic distribution cent

The second reason for WeChat’s success was simple: it was in the right place at the right time. In 2010, just before WeChat launched publicly, just 36 million smartphones were sold in China, but just two years later that number had exploded to 214 million.[1104]

one useful strategy Amazon has found is to undercut their competitors on popular products but actually raise the prices on uncommon products, such as by discounting bestsellers while jacking up prices on obscure books. The idea is that most people will just search for the most common products (which will end up being cheaper on Amazon), so they’ll

So it’s no wonder why Time called Instagram “one of the smartest acquisitions ever.”[975]

Google changed its algorithm in 2018 to favor websites that loaded faster on mobile devices, leading experts to suggest that website owners make stripped-down articles with a Google tool called Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP.

The most basic form of SEO is getting more pages to link to your page. SEO includes plenty more techniques, such as putting the right keywords in your page’s title and headings or making all of your site’s pages link to each other.[23]

So anything that involves passwords or databases tends to happen on servers,[396] whereas interactive user interfaces are usually drawn by the frontend.

the European nonprofit called Epicenter.works ran a study on zero rating within 30 European countries and found that, when a country allowed zero rating, wireless carriers increased prices. Countries that banned zero rating saw steady drops in the prices of wireless plans, but countries that allowed the practice actually saw an increase.[1230] Why?

Google’s self-driving car project Waymo has started collaborating with Lyft to create self-driving cars,[926]