From Extra Crunch
- We hope all of you enjoyed the conversation with Eric Peckham and Lucas Matney on GDC and game streaming. For those who couldn’t join, a transcript should be coming shortly.
- Our enterprise reporter Ron Miller has a dive into how Salesforce became the model for enterprise SaaS companies, with some great early details into the launch of AppExchange.
- Continuing his growth discussion, Julian Shapiro of BellCurve.com discusses the acquisition marketing costs across 14 ad networks. This is a follow up of his Extra Crunch post on what startups are most profitable?
Wide Angle
Stories from outside the 280/101 corridor
- South Korea says that a new geothermal technology likely caused a massive earthquake.
- Bitwise Asset Management argues that nearly all trading volume of Bitcoin is fake.
- Italy has become one of the first Western countries to accede to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Expect more technology cooperation — particularly on 5G — in the coming months.
- Russia is intending to cut itself off from “the global internet”
- Floods are increasingly being predicted by startups and technology companies.
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