While Amazon was looking up, the daily online coupon business is going down, imploding under the weight of too much competition and too little value delivered to merchants. Pre-IPO valuations for… Read more »
The second quarter of 2011 was a fast-paced one for the connected consumer segment, with every sector of the digital media landscape — music, e-books, online video and gaming — experiencing significant events… Read more »
Social commerce continues to be a hot market, even if its business models remain unproven. Groupon’s prospectus showed it was capable of explosive growth but was still burdened by huge losses… Read more »
Two things stand out above all else when looking back on the first quarter of 2011: Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), the epitome of cloud computing, came down to Earth, while… Read more »
Some saw Facebook’s upgrade to its Comments service as the next big extension of its network platform outside its own site, akin to Likes or Connect. That’s certainly what Facebook is… Read more »
Much of 2010’s fourth-quarter action in NewNet technologies (i.e., social media, real- time feeds) centered on consumer markets and applications, although GigaOM’s Net:Work conference highlighted NewNet trends in enterprise collaboration and… Read more »
Each quarter the industry bemoans the fact that so much innovation and control seems to come from so few companies. The third quarter was no different; Facebook remains the chief beneficiary… Read more »
At the same time, Facebook has yet to enter this fray; its potential role is just one of the question marks hanging above geolocation services in the second quarter. Read more »
The NewNet is beginning to take on more shape as companies’ further hone their strategies for the next generation internet and concepts become more integrated into real-world scenarios, applications and solutions… Read more »
Social networking and the real-time web are changing the framework of how information on the Internet is consumed. The ability to share and disperse information through social platforms and do it… Read more »