Showing posts with label beta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beta. Show all posts

Monday, October 17, 2011

Google Fails Fast, Often: That's a Good Thing

It might be going too far to say that Google "celebrates" failure. But Google's "beta" culture can be seen as a good thing. The Next Web took a look at 251 Google products released since 1998 and found that 90, or 36 percent, had been cancelled.

TNW notes that there were among these products eight "major flops" and "14 major successes." It is hard to say that what Google learned from the failures lead to the 14 successes.


Stablecoins for Retail Payments Face Consumer Value Challenges

The view that stablecoins might be a challenge to the Visa payment network if Amazon or Walmart create their own stablecoin payment systems...