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Raw data was originally from SF Chronicle, but they removed their timelapse view so I am now getting it direct from county websites. Stanford Open Data project also has a reasonable historical dataset that comes from the county websites.

I'll add a new cases graph for each county.

Another important data point to assess testing is Case Fatality Rate (CFR). This is about 2.5% in the SF Bay Area.

In other places with higher testing, such as Australia, the CFR is 0.6% or less. This implies that the true number of cases is 4-5 times higher... probably a lot more.

To clear up some confusion around TinyMCE and Textbox.io. The products came to be under the same umbrella due to the merger of Ephox and Moxiecode. The combined company was renamed Tiny last year.

TinyMCE version 5, released earlier this year, incorporated much of the Textbox.io features and technology and is the main product moving forward. It is better than Textbox.io in almost every way now and is recommended for new projects.

Tiny did indeed raise $4M in venture capital last year. It has not been squandered by any means. In fact, we have only just started spending it as we were profitable and growing when we first raised the money.

Tiny has a good-sized development team with more than 30 people in engineering, QA, design and product management. Of the many options out there, TinyMCE is a good bet!

(disclosure: I am a founder and the CEO at Tiny)

What is the ROI for the company buying you?

If it is website traffic... multiple your monthly new visitors by $1.50 or whatever and given them a reasonable break-even period (12 months)?

If it is a team.... what would they have to pay in recruitment fees?

If it is code... what would it cost to build it?

For another small business that is bootstrapped, this is the only way they can think of it.

You get a bit of a negotiation advantage if you can identify what matters to them most and use that as the metric. You can start amplifying how much of a difference you really can make for them.

Contained in this new release is a feature yet to be seen in any open source WYSIWYG editor. Thanks to our efforts with our new colleagues at Ephox, we are able to provide you with image editing capabilities in our TinyMCE Image Tools feature! You will now be able to perform a wide range of image editing tasks all within the rich text editor.