Amazon has been slowly building an adtech business for the past few years now. Back in 2008 I wrote about the launch of their advertising network and since then there has been a steady trickle of announcements and hires that show they are getting more and more serious about becoming a player in the [...]
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As you’ve probably seen Amazon announced a slew of new devices yesterday, no smartphone, but their four new Kindles have been well received in the blogoshpere, particularly the Kindle Paperwhite and the new Kindle HD, both of which have got me excited. Perhaps most interesting though is that once again Amazon is playing the [...] Google is currently rolling out a new feature called ‘Knowledge Graph’ which will enhance our search experience by intelligently guessing what information we are looking for and putting it at the top of the results page. In other words they will be serving information not links. The picture above was released by Google [...] Regular readers will know that I’m a fan of open systems and have been following the battle between Android and Apple’s iOS with interest. For a long time I have thought that the most likely outcome is that Android becomes the dominant player with Apple remaining important with a significant but minority market share. [...] GigaOM yesterday published an article about How Google is growing up into a real IT company, which talks about how the world’s favourite search engine has switched from releasing lots of ‘science project’ applications like Google Wave and Google Knol, and Google Questions to a fewer number of well thought through and solidly engineered [...] I love the fact that every week someone releases some new and powerful data into the public domain, often for free. This week Chitika has released data from a panel of 200,000 US websites which shows market share for iOS, Android and other mobile OS’s. Observers of the mobile industry will remember that Android [...] Regular readers will no that I’m a long-time fan of Jeff Bezos and Amazon and also that I have a keen interest in the evolving roll of gatekeepers in the internet age (see here and here for two recent posts). For these reasons I was very interested to read the following quote from Jeff [...] Yesterday Google announced great results and a change to their share structure which will in effect give the founders control over the company in perpetuity. The founders in their “Founders’ Letter 2012″, a large part of which I’ve copied below, explain that their reason is to free themselves from outside pressures so they [...] There is an excellent post on Gizmodo today which describes Google’s competitive challenges and describes why their responses have been problematic. In the end it comes down to trust. In the early days we trusted Google because they said they weren’t evil, they seemed to back that up by acting in our interest, and [...] As you can see from the table above Apple’s share of the tablet market slipped from 64% in Q3 to 57% in Q4, losing share mostly to Amazon’s Kindle Fire, and to a lesser extent to Barnes and Noble’s Nook. That said, the overall market is so hot (growing 94% quarter on quarter) [...] |
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