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I would question assumption [2]. For example, all Foreign Domestic Workers are required to have 6-monthly medical examination http://www.mom.gov.sg/passes-and-permits/work-permit-for-for...

How much of this is due to FB's migration to apps vs visits on the browser?

It's only insanely expensive relative to the financing cost structure of traditional companies. If you view Tesla as a high growth tech startup, with an insanely cheap way to raise capital, you can say they are spending very little money to generate such high revenue growth rates, especially compared to say Uber.

Except not really, because number of Apple Watches sold in first month was in the millions whereas number of iPods sold was less than 100,000! I think OP is talking about rate of growth being like iPod, not absolute numbers https://www.lifewire.com/number-of-ipods-sold-all-time-19995...

If Apple releases Lion as a Mac App store purchase, that could go a long way to approaching that $1Bn.

We're considering a build vs. buy decision for our site http://gamersunite.coolchaser.com. So, I'll say minimally we have such a need.