Back in Feb, I had a paradigm shift after reading Chris Dixon's post on Selling Pickaxes During a Gold Rush. Lately, I have been seeing very interesting companies looking at the super hot tech markets from a "pickaxe seller" view. I am sure I am missing many, but here are a few that I find [...]
Google’s pricing strategy in Nortel patent bid
01 Jul
Posted by Emrecan Dogan as Behavioral Economics
In Reuters article, Google is reported to have bid weird price points for Nortel patents: At the auction for Nortel Networks' wireless patents this week, Google's bids were mystifying, such as $1,902,160,540 and $2,614,972,128. Math whizzes might recognize these numbers as Brun's constant and Meissel-Mertens constant, but it puzzled many of the people involved in [...]
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