Regular readers will know that I’m a strong believer in open standards. I think they provide the best platform for innovation and are the best protection against monopolists. Hence I would love it if the open web prevailed, and the rising power of gatekeepers like Apple, Amazon, Facebook and even Google annoys me as [...]
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There is a new report out from Distimo which highlights the major developments in mobile in 2011. You can download the report from their website (free and paid versions). I want to highlight two things, first, that Android apps are now grossing a reasonable amount of money. Still behind the iPhone and the iPad, [...] A few things recently have made me think that traditional retail is nearing the beginning of the end. That isn’t to say it will disappear, but I think it will undergo some fundamental changes. Perhaps most notable development was Amazon’s Price Check Promotion which offered a 5% discount to shoppers in traditional stores who [...] I’ve been saying for some time now that the fundamentals of the Android ecosystem are stronger than that of Apple’s iOS, largely because Apple doesn’t know how play nice with its ecosystem partners. I think we are now getting near to the tipping point where Android starts to claim dominant mindshare and the shift [...] If you are like me you have a rough understanding of how Google ranks sites in its search engine results and how those have changed over time. In the beginning it was all about Page Rank and sites were ranked based on the number of links into the site and the quality of the [...] The difference between success and failure for companies is making the right decisions – no surprises there. Another truism is that making the right calls is often a subjective process, with no right or wrong answer. Decisions like whether to hire candidate A or B, or what your budget should be for next year [...] Fortieth in a series of weekly posts by myself and Nicholas Lovell of Gamesbrief which answer the fifty questions you should ask before raising venture capital. We expect the series to run for a year after which we will collate the posts into a book. You can find the rationale behind the series here, [...] "VCs are people too". That was what I was thinking this morning as I read Fred Wilson‘s post about approaching VCs when they are out in public. Fred says it is ok say hello and hand over a business card, but make it quick and don’t pitch. That makes sense to me. All [...] Dave Morin CEO of Path and Mike McCue CEO of Flipboard were both interviewed on the main stage yesterday at Le Web. They are both high profile CEOs of high profile startups that have raised a lot of money for very design focused mobile apps. They have also both recently launched new iPhone apps [...] |
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