Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn

Re:Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn by pessimizer on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @11:04AM (#8394950)

Germany could have produced facebook.

edit: maybe better framed as a question - why do you think that Germany could not have produced facebook?

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Re:Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn by raverbashing on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @01:56PM (#8396411)

Simple answer: because they think it's silly (or think it's too much of a privacy violation)

Germans are "very serious" even when they're having fun.

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Re:Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn by smm2000 on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @11:17AM (#8395086)

Germany has not so far produced a single website or app that is hugely popular internationally. It does not mean it could not - it certainly have educated population to do it but the fact is it has not.

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Re:Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn by janmonschke on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @11:29AM (#8395214)

You obviously haven't heard of SoundCloud then ;) (founders are Swedes but company is based in Berlin)

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Re:Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn by smm2000 on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @12:10PM (#8395551)

Good point, I did not know about SoundCloud.

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Re:Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn by sucramb on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @11:25AM (#8395168)

Zalando made their IPO just yesterday. $768M collected and $6.8B market cap.

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Re:Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn by smm2000 on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @12:09PM (#8395542)

Zalando is European company with very few sales outside of EU.

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