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What the Goldman Sachs Facebook investment really means

January 4, 2011

Alan Patrick sees through the hype around Facebook being “worth $50 billion”: “The one sure thing you can tell from this is that Facebook clearly can’t self fund itself enough for what it needs, even on $2bn turnover a year.” To put it another way: A web site which has 500 million users, 1/8th of [...]

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Analyst predicts iPad will be fastest product to $1 billion sales, ever

May 6, 2010

Carl Howe, for Yankee Group: “Apple announced on Monday that it has sold more than 1 million iPads since its announcement on January 27. I’m counting since January 27 only because pre-orders are included; the reality is the most of those sales and deliveries have been in the last 30 days. Assuming that rate continues [...]

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Sometimes, “think like a startup” isn’t the best option

February 11, 2010
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In an interesting piece on the problems at MySpace under Murdoch, Om Malik mentions this: Kevin also mentioned that Murdoch, and every large media company, need to think like startups. Good advice – but only to a point. The fact is that News Corp (like all major media companies) can currently make more money online [...]

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3′s Spotify/Android deal could be a game-changer

October 19, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Quick heads up on this, and I’ll probably write more later, but 3 is apparently going to do a bundle of the HTC Hero Android phone (widely-regarded as the best of the current crop) with a premium Spotify account for the two year lifetime of the contract. And, by strange coincidence, it’s [...]

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Watch out, Mac-using analysts: Ballmer knows where you live

July 31, 2009

Via Joe Wilcox, comes this bit of Steve Ballmer’s speech to financial analysts: “We have low share, by the way, in the investor audience. I can see the Apple logos versus the PC logos. So we have more work to do, more work to do. Our share is lower in this audience than the average [...]

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Why are companies so afraid of “think(ing) different”?

July 30, 2009

You’d think that companies would want to make their products different from their competitors, wouldn’t you? ?After all, if there’s a difference, people might actually buy your product rather than someone else’s? Not always the case, as Matthew Taylor notes: “Then a few days later a friend was comparing prices from Virgin and BT to have [...]

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The new economic reality: business model first, build traffic second

April 16, 2009

Farhad Manjoo at Slate offers a timely reminder of one of the underlying realities of online business: “Everyone knows that print newspapers are our generation’s horse-and-buggy; in the most wired cities, they’ve been pummeled by competition from the Web. But it might surprise you to learn that one of the largest and most-celebrated new-media ventures [...]

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The Hulu and Boxee fight continues

April 2, 2009

Image via CrunchBase The TV producers’ decision to block Boxee from using Hulu content appears pretty shortsighted, but there is method in the madness, as VentureBeat points out: “The truth of the matter is that Hulu’s new encryption efforts make dollars and sense for its content parters. Networks like NBC and Fox might have snagged [...]

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