Why the difference? The difference in approaches stems from a difference in business models. Western companies have long focused on creating business models that can be grown, or scaled, easily. Whether you’re selling ads (like Google and Facebook) or selling phones (like Apple), the same approach works anywhere in the world: every company in the w

In short, mobile payments have taken off all around Asia because they’re the center of a clever business model: once you get people’s payment info, you can try to become the next WeChat and utterly dominate your country’s tech scene.

As UXPin says, “Wireframes are the skeleton. Prototypes demonstrate the behavior. Mockups are the skin.”[1480]

The popular big data tool Hadoop uses MapReduce.[533] The idea is that you store all your data on a bunch of normal-sized servers — no supercomputers needed! — and then run the Hadoop software to crunch the numbers. The beauty of this approach is that the computers don’t need to be physically connected, and to add more data you just need to add mor

Let’s look at the first argument. It’s true that Macs are uncommon: as of 2017, just one in 25 computers worldwide is a Mac, while most of the rest are Windows PCs.[217]

EU created a landmark law called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).[1310] Under this law, companies who are breached have to pay fines of up to 20 million Euros or 4% of their annual revenue, whichever is more.[1311]

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]

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?

Some apps just live on borrowed time (and venture capitalist money), providing free service until they get large enough that they can start earning — in other words, “grow first, monetize later.”[331]