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Everything's just fine at Google's mothership: $1.7bn EU fine, slower growth take their toll

a_yank_lurker

Re: That is called swimming in money

Also, Amazon's original business (retail) is a notoriously low margin business. So Amazon grew up in a low margin business and tightening margins in the Cloud, etc. scare them less. Others are not used to retail type margins will have more difficulty adjusting as the markets mature. Web advertising, like all advertising will saturate as the growth of users slows and each user only has so much time to spend online.

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