When I first heard the rumours that Google might acquire Groupon for $2.5bn yesterday I tweeted that it would be a big change of strategy for GOOG to put feet on the street. If space had permitted I would have expanded the tweet to include something about the price of the deal. Picking up [...]
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There is a good piece in the Guardian today on why the iPad might not save newspapers (thanks to Paul Miller for the pointer). This passage from near the end of the article is perhaps the best description of modern attitudes to news that I’ve seen: It’s … easy to jump from one news [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-21 http://goo.gl/fb/XsGJb # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-21 http://goo.gl/fb/VlxTx # How to run a board meeting http://goo.gl/fb/5Utzs # VC investment in the games industry http://goo.gl/fb/xjgZ1 # iPhones, Blackberries and email http://goo.gl/fb/YJhyY # Netflix launches $7.99 unlimited online service, spends more online than offline http://goo.gl/fb/yqGhv # Games dominating the charts [...] Connected TVs are looking like they will be big business next year and I have just read a report on the subject from Colin Donald of FutureScape. I was struck by the following stat: A September 2010 survey conducted in the UK for Intel found almost half (45%) of individuals use social networking services [...] Netflix is at what might be looked back on as a watershed moment in the company’s history. On Monday they announced a $7.99 all you can eat download service for movies and television and according to the New York Times they are expecting that the cost of streaming movies will pass the cost of [...] I attended a lunch event today kindly hosted by law firm Osborne Clarke and Nicholas Lovell (co author of our “50 questions you should ask before raising venture capital” series of blog posts – next instalment tomorrow on Nicholas’s Gamesbrief blog). There were about twenty of us at the lunch, with a roughly equal [...] At the annual get together for all the DFJ Network partners last week we spent Tuesday morning sharing best practices between funds. The guys from DFJ Frontier (offices in Los Angeles and done some interesting deals recently, including one of my favourite new services Unsubscribe) have written a handbook for the CEOs in their [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-14 http://goo.gl/fb/bP33Y # It's a beautiful day people. Just done the stunning drive from San Fran to Half Moon Bay for the annual DFJ schmoozefest # "@alexrahaman: 2010 Spanish Mobile display ad spend c.€7m in 2010 http://slidesha.re/bFjS5z #in quot; that is tiny # Social games in a sweet spot [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-14 http://goo.gl/fb/bP33Y # It's a beautiful day people. Just done the stunning drive from San Fran to Half Moon Bay for the annual DFJ schmoozefest # "@alexrahaman: 2010 Spanish Mobile display ad spend c.€7m in 2010 http://slidesha.re/bFjS5z #in quot; that is tiny # Social games in a sweet spot [...] |
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iPhones, Blackberries and email
I lost my Blackberry last weekend and everyone keeps asking me whether I’m going to swap and get an iPhone. In fact I’ve been carrying an iPhone as well as a Blackberry for eighteen months now and whilst I’d love to go back down to carrying one device if I could it isn’t a [...]