News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead. Parent comment

Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by e12e on Friday August 16, 2013 @09:06PM (#6227769)
Well, so they still have lots of money, and quite a lot of time to do something about it. It sounds like their core business is loosing to competitors, and their solution is to keep the old product (the one that they believe is failing) and cut research?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by TheLegace on Friday August 16, 2013 @10:09PM (#6227919)
Sounds like Microsoft doesn't it.

And I'd argue with more and more accessible technologies these behemoths won't have the luxury of "lots of time". And hopefully the large sums of money will mean less.

[ Parent | on HN ]