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You may have seen that Murdoch is talking about how Google and others are stealing from the newspaper industry: The people who just simply pick up everything and run with it, and steal our stories. We say they steal our stories — they just take them without payment. There’s Google, there’s Microsoft, Ask.com … [...] As most of you will know few VCs, and especially the larger ones, won’t sign NDAs. I posted the explanation below as to why on my Tumblog earlier this year and I’m repeating it now on TheEquityKicker because this issue has come up a couple of times recently, including last Friday. The words were [...] Published a new post: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-01 http://cli.gs/gme2r # SAI list of 60 most valuable private internet companies. The valuations are a bit nuts, but interesting reading http://bit.ly/1jtwIO # Published a new post: 'Less than free' as a business – is it time to be afraid of Google? http://cli.gs/eVSgT # Published [...] Published a new post: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-01 http://cli.gs/gme2r # SAI list of 60 most valuable private internet companies. The valuations are a bit nuts, but interesting reading http://bit.ly/1jtwIO # Published a new post: 'Less than free' as a business – is it time to be afraid of Google? http://cli.gs/eVSgT # Published [...] iPhone game download prices have been steadily decreasing over the last year and since Apple allowed developers to charge for in-game transactions on free to download apps the trend towards free has accelerated. Free as a business model demands innovation from companies that will keep making money and Ngmoco has come up with a [...] Inspired by Fred Wilson’s recent post on thematic investing I’ve been thinking a lot about how the world will look in five to ten years with a view to building an investment strategy around that vision. Hence I was interested to read the following quote from Eric Schmidt this morning (on Niemen [...] At the Web2.0 Summit in San Francisco a couple of weeks back Mary Meeker gave a presentation which included the three slides below that show there will be a huge opportunity in mobile over the coming years and attempt to predict where within mobile that opportunity will fall as the mobile wave evolves. In [...] Data out from Admob’s regular report on mobile web activity derived from data on where their ads are shown shows that 10% of smartphone web requests now come from Android devices (see the chart below). This is up from nothing a short while ago and comes before much hyped devices like the HTC Hero [...] I’m back from holiday today (Majorca, very nice, thank you…) and have been enjoying catching up on reading and looking forward to getting back into the routine of posting every workday. Perusing my usual sources for inspiration (amongst which Viewsflow is becoming increasingly important) I hit on this wonderful post from Bill Gurley about [...] Published a new post: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-25 http://cli.gs/uG1qe # The Telegraph 'Twitter costs British economy £1.38bn' http://bit.ly/3yYYJC – this s**t winds me up. Naive and misguided on M levels # The Telegraph 'Twitter costs British economy £1.38bn' http://bit.ly/3yYYJC – this s**t winds me up. Naive and misguided on levels # The [...] |
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