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Re:Ask YC: Are Americans forgetting the rest of the world? by dgabriel on Tuesday March 11, 2008 @01:04PM (#134402)
They can, for sure, and many of them do (just not all of them). It's a decision based on the cost of legal vs. the income benefit of providing services to the international market.

AOL has apparently decided the US is its target market. You can get better free web mail from other sites, anyway. :)

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Re:Ask YC: Are Americans forgetting the rest of the world? by mixmax on Tuesday March 11, 2008 @02:26PM (#134493)
he he, yes absolutely...

My point is not to downgrade American companies, it's more that I'm perplexed why some of them are content with such a small share of the global market. If an European startup can do it, then it seems like it is not an issue of it being too hard or too expensive.

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