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Fortune, Jan 1, 2016 (I)

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发表于 1-31-2016 19:39:10 | 只看该作者 回帖奖励 |倒序浏览 |阅读模式
本帖最后由 choi 于 1-31-2016 19:40 编辑

(1) Leena Rao, Money for Nothing; Now that many people are using peer-to-peer payment services, providers are eager to monetize them.
http://fortune.com/2015/12/29/p2p-mobile-payment-venmo-paypal/
("Peer-to-peer [P2P] payments technology, which enables people to send money to each other in minutes using a mobile application")

Note:
(a) monetize (vt): "to utilize (something of value) as a source of profit"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monetize
(b)
(i) "The company [Apple] is said to be developing its own peer-to-peer payment system for iPhone users—perhaps the best sign that there’s gold in P2P’s hills."

MF Stephenson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._F._Stephenson
(1801- – after 1878; "may have inspired his character Mulberry Sellers. Sellers was famous for his lines 'There’s gold in them thar hills' and 'there’s millions in it' ")
(ii) thar: "dialectal variant of THERE"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thar



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沙发
 楼主| 发表于 1-31-2016 19:39:42 | 只看该作者
(2) Vivienne Walt, Amazon Invades India; How Jeff Bezos aims to conquer the next ‘trillion-dollar market.'
http://fortune.com/amazon-india-jeff-bezos/

My comment:
(a) Read only the first seven paragraphs -- about a quarter of the report. That is enough.
(b) To me, the promise of India’s market is merely a redux of China’s -- pie in the sky.

Pie in the Sky. The Phrase Finder, undated.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/pie-in-the-sky.html
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板凳
 楼主| 发表于 1-31-2016 19:40:17 | 只看该作者

(4) Jen Wieczner, Moving Markets from 400 Miles; There are more private satellites in orbit than ever -- and the data they deliver is out of this world. (under the heading "Sky-High Growth").
http://fortune.com/2015/12/23/satellite-images-big-data/
("In 2016, 92 commercial Earth-observation satellites will be put into orbit—that’s more than 10 times the number in 2013, says research firm Tauri Group. Most are about the size of a loaf of bread and made by Planet Labs, which says that this year it will be able to take a picture of every inch of land on Earth, every day")

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