With facebook’s valuation at 100 Billion based (predminantly) on its 850Million users (nobody is quoting active users though), the valuation is roughly $11.7 per user. Microsoft, with over 700 Million consumer eyeballs (yup, between MSN/hotmail/messenger /xbox and skype) and somewhere around 500 Million registered users it is in most countries a major digital media player… [Read more…]
December 5, 2010
actually, there are many other issues that google has, but this one was interesting… it turns out a etailer that was getting terrible reviews was coming up top of google search – thereby implying a high quality and recieving lots of business. the real danger comes in when google starts trying to judge what is… [Read more…]
December 4, 2010
groupon resisited a $6Billion acquisition by google. thats an interesting twist. nice article in NYT. it just shows the power of local sales force for local markets. most businesses actually dont want to worry about keyword searches and SEO, they just want to buy some advertising and drive some business – easily, without the hassle… [Read more…]
November 29, 2010
In ancient times gone past, people would congregate in markets to buy food, trade and generally catch up. generally, we havent seemed to change much with social media and ecommerce becoming a very strong link – i guess people just like buying stuff with other people around. so while groupon is being touted as the… [Read more…]
March 18, 2010
google tops the table at $18 per unique user, twiter - almost nothing.
January 9, 2010
the globalization of media and the advertising industry is creating new challenges. big media has always had a very close relationship with government and politicians and the threat of outsiders taking the cash is terrifying. will tax structures be able to stop how people use the internet?
December 14, 2009
eric schmidt shocks world by revealing that if you are doing something illegal via google and the law enforcement agencies want your search data, you could get caught! wait, that sounds reasonable? but where do you draw the line.
December 12, 2009
is vevo googles decline into the pit of evil? other than the fact that what is good and evil seem to change with time, this is an interesting perspective from Harvard's media lab.
December 9, 2009
could scaling back non-core operations be the answer for newspaper profitability?
April 19, 2012
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