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Being a behemoth: how Microsoft (and 9 others) make their billions [Reblog]

By nistha | Published: August 19, 2010
via Arstech­nica: Being a behe­moth: how Microsoft (and 9 oth­ers) make their bil­lions. For starters, it’s notable that a lot of very influ­en­tial com­pa­nies don’t even appear on the list. For exam­ple, seven of the top 10 have (at one time or another) offered a prod­uct based on ARM chips; four of them are actual [...]
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Agatha Christie books online

By nistha | Published: July 30, 2010
While look­ing for some quotes, I bumped into this link acci­den­tally that con­tains few Agatha Christie’s mys­ter­ies online. I adore her nov­els a lot and she is one author I love today as much as I did as a schoolgirl! T’was quite a nice sur­prise when I found a lit­tle piece of mutual admi­ra­tion between [...]
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Perseverance

By nistha | Published: July 26, 2010
Per­se­ver­ance, orig­i­nally uploaded by Duf­fer­Long. “Per­se­ver­ance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.“ –Newt Gin­grich I could not agree more with Gingrich’s def­i­n­i­tion. Ideas are not easy but moti­va­tion can eas­ily fuel them. How­ever, moti­va­tion wanes with time and if ideas do not suc­ceed [...]
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