categories
HOT TOPICS
- The Startup Velocity Question
- Platform as a Service
- Man and Superman
- Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
- The Future: End of Capitalism
- Capitalism 2.0
iPhone Competitors: RIM
Starting with this post on RIM, I will look at some major players that the iPhone will be competing with. An earlier post on RIM can provide good background for this post. In it, I have suggested that RIM does not directly compete with the iPhone, because of its prosumer focus, whereas the iPhone is
Tom Tom + Tele Atlas: Perfect Match
If there is ever a perfect marriage, this could be it. Tom Tom’s (AMS: TOM2) planned acquisition of Tele Atlas (AMS: TA) is perfect in more senses than one. For one thing, both are Dutch companies, with synergistic businesses, and a merger integration will be dramatically easier based on that reason alone. But of course,
Take-Two (TTWO) Takes Two Steps Back
By Frank Lara, Guest Author What happens when you delay your flagship product and you exist in the cut throat gaming sector? How about a 22% drop in your company stock and plenty of time to beat yourself up questioning – what went wrong? Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. (NASDAQ:TTWO) finished the week down 26% when
More on the LOCM Patent Situation
Here’s a must-read analysis of the patent by Marty Himmelstein, formerly from Vicinity. Marty also wrote to me privately: “Hi Sramana – I read your post on local.com today. As I tried to make the case in my post, the Local.com patent is fatally flawed. First, the copious prior art makes the patent irrelevant. I
Place and Location Services Growth Fuels Navteq
If you’re ever stuck in a big US city in never-ending traffic – which is perfectly commonplace these days – trying to figure out how soon you can reach your client’s office downtown, trust Navteq’s (NYSE: NVT) GPS maps to effortlessly guide you to your destination. Sounds too simple? The truth is it is. If
Financial Media Comparison Chart
I did some digging into the various business and financial media sites last night, and here are some stats. Alexa Ranks: (Yahoo! Finance and MSN Money are not included in this list, because I cannot find Alexa ranks for them.) * CNNMoney.com: 76 * Forbes.com 483 * Marketwatch.com 1,032 * WSJ.com: 1,043 * Businessweek.com 1,310
Local Search Bonanza Stirs Patent Investigation
Last year in Feb the Kelsey Group made the eye-catching forecast that the global online local search market is set to explode from $3.4 billion in 2005 to $13 billion in 2010. This put the growth rate at a handsome 30.4% over the next 4-5 years. Interestingly, the same report was emphatic that the classified
Murdoch Gets Dow Jones, Now What?
As expected, Rupert Murdoch has successfully negotiated for himself a position in the Business and Finance vertical with a crown jewel brand, The Wall Street Journal. Here’s my previous analysis on why this deal is a good one. I really like News Corp’s verticalization strategy. James Altucher asked Jim Cramer, “What’s the one thing the