Archives
Categories
- advertising (5)
- Apple (728)
- Marketing (5)
- Mobile (192)
- Publishing (91)
- Reviews (2)
- Security (2)
- Sunday Round Up (1)
- Tech Companies (154)
- TV (1)
- Uncategorized (1121)
- Web/Tech (520)
Some rights reserved
Tag Archives: Business
What the Goldman Sachs Facebook investment really means
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.” … Continue reading
Analyst predicts iPad will be fastest product to $1 billion sales, ever
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 … Continue reading
Sometimes, “think like a startup” isn’t the best option
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Publishing, Web/Tech
Tagged Avatar, Business, MySpace, New media, News Corporation, Om Malik, Publishing, Rupert Murdoch
Leave a comment
3′s Spotify/Android deal could be a game-changer
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Android, Business, Handhelds, HTC Corporation, iPhone, Smartphone, Spotify
Leave a comment
Watch out, Mac-using analysts: Ballmer knows where you live
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 … Continue reading
Why are companies so afraid of “think(ing) different”?
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: … Continue reading
The new economic reality: business model first, build traffic second
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Web/Tech
Tagged Business, farhadmanjoo, Media, Newspaper, Publishers, Publishing, Slate, YouTube
1 Comment
The Hulu and Boxee fight continues
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Web/Tech
Tagged advertising, Boxee, Business, Fox, Hulu, NBC, Television, VentureBeat
Leave a comment
