When you decide to become a front-end consumer-oriented service, you really need to be better than your competition.

当作为前端客户导向型的服务提供商时，就需要做得比竞争者更好。

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This decision is also hard to make because when you are a backend technology provider, it's like selling a piece of commodity.

之所以这是一个困难的决定还因为,当作为后台技术提供商时，就像出售一件商品似的。

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In the last five years, the stock in Dow Jones Company has fallen by half.

在过去的五年间,道琼斯公司,一流的商业财经信息提供商旗下有以对商业财经领域的深度分析报道见长的《华尔街日报》报系

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