Discusses the climate for software firms

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Please answer the two questions below in one or two paragraphs for each answer.

1) Instagram is a smartphone app now owned by Facebook. According to an article that discusses the climate for software firms in the San Francisco Bay Area, the success of Instagram “is a tale about the culture of the Bay Area tech scene, driven by a tightly woven web of entrepreneurs and investors who nurture one another’s projects with money, advice and introductions to the right people.” What advantages does being located in the Bay Area give to startup software firms? In what circumstances can software firms located elsewhere overcome these advantages? Are the advantages the Bay Area has likely to persist over time?

2) According to the analysis by Hufbauer and Lowry, of the additional $1.1 billion consumers spent on tires as a result of the tariff on Chinese tires, the workers whose jobs were saved in the U.S. tire industry received only about $48 million in wages. Wouldn't it have been cheaper for the federal government to have raised taxes on U.S. consumers and given the money to tire workers rather than to have imposed a tariff? If so, why didn't the federal government adopt this alternative policy?

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