Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to bjy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The upaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalised, and the State will have to [...]
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Below is a list of the weeks best-selling books from Nielsen. Note that the best-seller is about iPhone developement. It is rare for books as technical as this to outsell books with much broader appeal and hence this is a lead indicator that developer interest in the iPhone platform is mushrooming. Most of the [...] From Techcrunch and referring to the US: During 2008, comScore estimates that 4.5 trillion display ads were served in the U.S. alone. That comes out to more than 2,000 Internet ads per month per person. And, believe it or not, the number of ads served up actually declined a little during the year as [...] My friend Ed French has posted today on the role of chairmen in pre-revenue tech companies. There is a lot of good stuff there, although for me the way the highlights in his post works implies an emphasis on the CEO succession that over-states the case. In addition to true startups I think [...] We are in the midst of earnings season right now and different companies are faring very differently: Google revenues were up 18% – as I wrote last week Yahoo! yesterday reported revenues down just 1% Sun Microsystems also reported yesterday with revenues down 10.9% on the year ago period IBM reported last week with [...] We all know and sense that Twitter is doing really well at the moment (and rumours of a forthcoming $20m VC round help) – but when I read Mike’s post from last Thursday on the subject I was surprised at just how close to the mainstream this is. First the chart – their UK [...] The NY Times has a great article today about the impact of $200 laptops on the IT industry. The first, and most obvious point is that they are bad news for desktop software companies like Microsoft. These laptops achieve their pricepoint by running open source software and cutting down on local processing power. And [...] According to a Wall Street Journal article this morning that is mostly about teething problems with the Blackberry Storm the iPhone has captured 25% of the North American smartphone market. Depending on how they define smartphone, that is an incredibly rapid market transition and will have Nokia et al wondering how they can have [...] Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal reported on predictions that the search market would decline 8% year on year. They also said that we would no for sure when Google reported its results yesterday. Well, the news is that the picture is actually quite rosy, with Google beating the streets expectations and posting [...] To much dismay amongst the digerati Twitter yesterday announced a limit of 20,000 calls per hour to their API for whitelisted apps. My guess is that Nick Halstead has it right when he says this is about them setting themselves up to charge apps that want to go over that limit: To me twitter [...] |
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