Tag Archive | "Google"
Gigaom recently reported that Hulu has been approached by a potential buyer and its board is currently deciding between entering negotiations with the as of yet unnamed buyer, or to solicit bids form other interested parties. The only clue as to who the buyer might be has come from a CNBC tweet saying that Google [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Why is Larry Page so worried about Facebook? Web openness: Facebook is mostly closed to Google’s web crawlers Business model: Facebook corners 23.1 % of the display ads market, leaving only 2.7 % to Google (source) Value chain: Google and Facebook ultimately compete for users’ attention. Just as Android emerged as [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Competition is heating up in the analytics sector (have a look at this great list of market players), which Google has been leading thanks to its free Google Analytics product. Yet Google’s offer still lacks some in three new areas of focus, even though the web landscape has greatly evolved: Real-time: [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Seth Weintraub (Fortune) explains why Google is less and less a search company: Google generates less than 70% of revenues from search, and it’s decreasing. YouTube revenues are growing very quickly, and has the potential to “push search-related revenues below 50%”. Google said that its Apps business “is growing faster than [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Dropbox has now become synonymous of painless files synchronization. While the concept may not sound very original, Dropbox delivered an elegant, fast and simple solution for its users: users drop files in a folder that gets synchronized automatically between computers (and even smartphones): this workflow does not require using another software [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Google is apparently ready to take on phone companies: its Google Voice service is rumored to support the SIP VoIP standard. In layman’s terms, this means that you would theoretically be able to make (and receive) a phone call without the expensive voice plan your phone companies is selling you — [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Mozilla introduced its Open Web Applications initiative, which basically aims at the same goal as Google’s Chrome Webstore: simplifying the distribution of web applications. This is the one of the only common points though, as Mozilla’s product is both more open and more convincing: Apps are not mere websites, they can [...]
What do Twitter, Netflix and climate change all have in common? Their biggest problems are data problems. And we are turning to Data 2.0 for the answers. The Data 2.0 Conference is a one-day conference on April 4, 2011, in San Francisco that answers the question: How can improved access to data impact your industry? [...]
