Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in The Telegraph (UK) and appears on CloudBlog with permission. Thanks to Shane Richmond, Head of Technology (Editorial) at Telegraph Media Group. - @jtaschek During the Industrial Age, companies were formed for a number of reasons: to achieve scale; to increase reach; to simplify... Read More »
Facebook’s IPO (NASDAQ: FB) has taken its rightful place in the history books, but the attention has shed new light on its biggest challenge: mobile advertising. About 25 percent of our time consuming media is sent on a mobile device, yet mobile accounts for only two percent of total advertising.... Read More »
Another report has the PC on the endangered species list, especially with consumers. Forrester’s take, “Tablets Will Rule The Future Personal Computing Landscape,” sees PC squeezed out by beefier tablets more robust cloud services, and a new class of device called “frames.” The numbers alone are similar to previous studies... Read More »
Twitter’s buzzworthy announcement of its “Innovator’s Patent Agreement” could rewrite the tangled web of patent litigation in the technology world. Just to refresh you, he’s what that web looks like for mobile patents alone (source: Reuters): Twitter is proposing that its IPA can help prevent patents from being used to... Read More »
Some eye-popping numbers from Gartner on the outlook for tablets: 2016 global tablet sales should reach 369.3 million units Apple seen leading market with 169.7 million units by 2016 Android unit sales seen rising eight-fold over same period Those numbers are bold enough, but what caught my eye is Gartner’s... Read More »
Apple’s barnburner sales of the new iPad (three million in the first three days of sales) are a clear indication that the latest iteration of the breakthrough device is connecting with more than just fanboys. And while I am sure that the vast majority of them are being picked up... Read More »
Cynics can easily dismiss Apple’s idea of a “Post-PC era” as self-aggrandizing marketing. After all, it has a large and growing share of the personal computer market, but the big contributors to growth are post-PC change agents like the iPhone and iPad. So I thought Gartner’s take on the trend... Read More »
Silicon Valley whipped itself into a nerd frenzy this week to a degree not seen since, um Sunday, when The Simpsons restyled their opening into a Game of Thrones spoof. The reason, the opening of the latest installment of our favorites series, iPad: The Third Coming. Jobs designed great products,... Read More »
The fight for second place in the tablet market is getting interesting. First of all, clearly moving in the wrong direction is the poorly-reviewed Playbook software upgrade from RIM. Email, which seemed like a glaring omission from the first version, has now come to the Playbook. At CNET, Roger Cheng... Read More »
I was wrong. The Facebook S-1 does NOT say that “our CEO is 27 and has limited prior employment history.” But it does say a lot. There’s a lot to cheer about in the S-1, including three years of profitability and a solid engine of free cash flow clearly in... Read More »
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