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It's pretty amazing but can get a bit lost/into a bugged state.


there's no paywall? just tried


Of course apples problems are all supply related, not demand


My guess is paypal is going to apple and ebay to alibaba.


Works great until the remove server goes down and no-one can log in anymore.


That's true of a lot of third party services, though.


Big raises like this are primarily secondary. Probably someone like lightspeed selling out (was mentioned in leaked email http://www.businessinsider.com.au/snapchat-ceo-evan-spiegels...).



I wouldn't bet on it.

Maybe you are not aware of the new EU VAT on digital downloads, which is taxed in the country of purchase, not country of sale.

http://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2014/nov/2...

The way discussion on taxation is going globally I wouldn't be surprised if more legislation heads this way, or at the very least a presence test is applied to see if the company has a physical office in country.


There are very specific laws regarding the hawking of shares to the general public without variously being registered securities or having an offering document. While I could see this take off, I doubt it would be used by legal companies unless it could fit within some crowd funded equity carve out.


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