Archive for March, 2008
Sony Ericsson X1
Have you seen anything cooler than this? X1
Social network profit
Interesting, the Chinese seem having figured out how to make money from social networks. At least, it looks like, with half a billion USD revenues and a quarter billion profit in 2007. This is not change money.
Read it here
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Platform A
Former AOL on Platform A:
“AOL has spent nearly a billion dollars to put together Platform A, buying Lightingcast (online video ads provider, for $100 million in 2006), Third Screen Media (mobile ads, for $105 million in 2007)…”
Read it here.
And the WSJ article, worth a quick look here.
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Social Directory?
Found this interesting one:
“The declining relevance of telephone directories erased 95 percent of publisher RH Donnelley’s market capitalization over the last 12 months…”
Available here.
Google and TV adv?
Interesting, check it out. Will they make it?
“Google (GOOG) has had a lot of trouble convincing the TV world that it can be trusted to sell their 30-second spots…”
Check it here.
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Up and coming
Interesting company providing adserving in opensource.
Worth checking out.
http://www.openx.org
What’s up with Yellow Pages?
All around the world yellow pages have been tanking for the last 9 months, hitting fresh new lows every other day. Once the darlings of PE firm for leveraged buy-outs, now seems that nobody wants the any more, and prefer dumping them at every occasion.
A couple of examples here in EU will picture the dramatic […]
The logic of life
Tim Harford / Little Brown
You might have found yourself asking why why certain things that seems absolutely unfair or irrational are actually happening. Rationale decisions don’t necessarily imply fairness and, in many cases, they lead to unfair outcomes. The point is, when single men behave in a rational way, the outcome might not necessarily […]
Hot spots
Lynda Gratton / FT Prentice Hall
Hot Spot is an extremely interesting book definitely worth having in your library. The author is trying to answer a challenging question: “why some companies buzz with energy and innovation - and others don’t”.
This is the fact: some companies really buzz with energy and innovation. The result of such […]