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Doing Good Via Spam Protection: The Art of Leverage | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

The story is about how NY Times is using CAPTCHA technology to fix errors that crop up in their effort to digitize old issues. You are breaking down the problem (OCR errors) into small pieces and parceling them out to individual websites. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8)

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

” According to Der Standard , an Austrian newspaper , mailing a parcel from Munich to Salzburg (distance: 145km; 90 miles) costs many times more than mailing it from Munich to Berlin (distance: 585km; 364 miles). based corporations – prominent examples being Skype, founded in Estonia, acquired by eBay in 2005 for $2.6

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