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[DS Notes] Market Share Alone is Never a Good Indicator of Business

John Kirk explains on TechPinions why the church of market share is a deeply flawed argument. Yes, more market share means the product is more visible, it means there are more consumers of said product but unless it’s viewed in relation to revenue and profits, it’s never going to make sense (or cents). Business wise, it’s necessary for companies to look at the health and efficiency of a business in terms of how much return it earns per output. If a group of companies only earn a small fraction of the profit generated by the entire industry, dwarfed by the profit of just one other company within that industry, they need to conduct a serious evaluation of their strategies.

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Dating Site Setipe Plans to Launch in June

Former Zalora executive Razi Thalib and his friend Kevin Aluwi have been secretly working on a dating site since they met back in 2011. Thalib, who currently runs digital agency Bridges and Balloons saw the lack of dating sites in Indonesia as an opportunity to come in and do something about it. ...

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[DS Notes] Bloomberg Says Google is Also Bidding for Waze

Real-time crowd sourced traffic map Waze is looking at an acquisition bid from Google following a report that Facebook is making an offer to the Israeli startup recently. While Google already has traffic report and even public transportation data on Google Maps, Waze’s method is preferable to 4...

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