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AOL and Huffington post – models for big news media in the digital age?

By now you may well have heard that AOL has acquired Huffington Post for $315m. Looking at HuffPo and now AOL there are three elements which show how large news businesses might look in the digital age:

HuffPo has achieved revenue scale (forecast $60m this year, up from $31m in 2010) They have combined [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-06

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-30 http://goo.gl/fb/2bHNQ # Robot with a biological brain http://goo.gl/fb/wIWPM # East London gets a boost from Cisco http://goo.gl/fb/1eYS4 # @geoffreymccaleb The Valley also benefited from govt subsidy to get is started. We should seek help from every avenue. in reply to geoffreymccaleb # Japanese Social Mobile Games Company listing [...]

Helping mobile operators to work smarter and thrive in the years ahead

Keen observers of the mobile operator community will have observed that these giants of the telecommunications industry have pretty much woken up to the fact that their early vision of dominating the mobile internet in the way that say Google and Facebook dominate the wired web just isn’t going to happen. They are now [...]

Netflix now available on 200 devices and thinking about a post API strategy

Netflix’s movie and TV streaming service is now available on over 200 different devices – mostly TVs, Blue-ray players and games consoles. I think there is a lesson here for media distribution businesses in the digital age – Netflix has been hugely successful in large part because they have made it dead easy for [...]

The problem with closed systems – Apple blocks Sony book application

The problem with closed systems like Apple’s where a single vendor looks to sell product at multiple different levels in the value chain is that pretty soon they end up with conflicts between the different levels and the product suffers as a result. It looks like this is playing out at Apple now [...]

East London gets a boost from Cisco

Cisco and the UK government announced yesterday that Cisco will invest $500m in East London, in a boost to Cameron’s previously announced plans to build a tech cluster from Shoreditch to the Olympic Park. The money will go to build two networked innovation centres and five annual competitions for SMEs.

Clusters are important for [...]