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Re:DC faces Silicon Valley's riches and ever-growing power by RushAndAPush on Sunday April 17, 2016 @03:46PM (#11515966)
DeepMind is owned by Google and Spotify may not exist in five years due to increased pressure from other streaming platforms like Apple. Spotify is in a make or break phase right now.
Re:DC faces Silicon Valley's riches and ever-growing power by eli_gottlieb on Sunday April 17, 2016 @04:58PM (#11516279)
DeepMind is a European start-up purchased by Google. The fact that America allows successful firms to grow into economy-dominating megacorps isn't really an argument that Europe somehow prevents the creation of wealth and businesses when you account for the fact that Europe actually enforces competition laws.