Google credit supplier
We all heard what Google does and how closely this companies is standing next to us in daily life. Google want to support us with searching on the web, navigating, translating, e-mailing, whatching video’s, managing our agenda’s and so on.
However, Google wants to do more. As we all know, Google has a huge amount of cash(34 billion at the end of Q2). What should they do with al this cash? Since we all know that Google only hires the best employees, we assume they will not bring it to the fireplace. How can you easily generate cash with cash? Supply credit! Yes, that is correct. Google is going to supply credit in the UK & VS with a minimum of €150 up to €75000. This credit can be used to buy credit for Google’s advertising program, Adwords. The interest rates are 8,99% and 11,9% a year respectively in the VS and the UK.
Google is controlling more and more of our lifes. After this, it is waiting what Google’s next step is. It is not unthinkable that Google is going to be a bank as well with al kinds of financial products. Since Google knows very much about us, because of Google’s other activities, Google can customize their financial products for every individual customer.
The combination of all Google’s knowledge and all these different types of activities they perform, might be undesirable in my opinion. Google can for example see when you are looking for a new house and increase the interest rate on a mortgage in this segment instantly. What is your opinion on this process? Is Google becoming to powerfull?
http://www.z24.nl/ondernemen/artikel_384688.z24/Ook_Google_gaat_leningen_verstrekken.html (sorry, Dutch article)
iOS 6: Just released, already hacked!
Debugging and improving is inherent to software. That’s what we learn in class and this link http://tweakers.net/nieuws/84472/nederlanders-vinden-beveiligingsprobleem-in-browser-ios-6.html (sorry for the internationals because it is Dutch) confirms this process.
It says that iOS 6 is already been hacked by Dutch people. The browser of iOS 6 has a security problem. As a result, pictures, videos, directory and browser-history can be stolen by outsiders.
It is really not a pleasure when these things fall in other hands, because these things are quite private. I think I would be very mad, when this would happen to me(if I ever find out, because it might happen, while I am not aware of it at all).
How big do you guys think this problem really is?
date4cash
Some of you BIMmers probably already heard about this recently launched datingsite in the Netherlands. The business model of date4cash.nl is actually quite different than the regular datingsites, where subscrition fees are paid by the users. Date4cash.nl is a website that is inspired by an American website, where you can bid up against each other and the highest bidder will be the ‘lucky one’ and can go on a date with the girl/man(it’s quite common that men are the bidding party up to now). If you win the auction, you will pay your bid to date4cash and date4cash charges 25%. To be able to receive remaining 75% of the bid, the woman(in most cases) needs to send a photo of the couple on the date to date4cash. The winning bidder benefits, through this hopefully exciting expierence that he probably would not have had, while for example only the appearance of this person was the driver of going on a date or not. The other party benefits, because of the hopefully nice date. Otherwise it was not a waste of time, because you earn some money with doing it this way.
Even the site is controlled by to naked pictures and to high bids, just to have a cup of coffee, the site is criticized by people who say that this is just a weak form of a ‘red light district’. In think some people actually want to have sex instead of a nice date and place a bid, based on wishfull thinking. However, I think there are more users on the website with a nice date or money as their primary motivation.
What do you guys think!?
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