Facebook and, to a lesser extent, Google continued to dominate social and online media in the second quarter. Activity in the social-enterprise space picked up as well. Key highlights from the… Read more »
Cleantech continues to be a diverse market of opportunities, and in the second quarter of 2012 companies worked to monetize strategies to leverage consumer and corporate interest in going green. Key highlights from… Read more »
The digital living room was also the scene of a lot of activity in the fourth quarter. Microsoft rolled out a major upgrade to its Xbox Live platform, adding dozens of… Read more »
Several web technology themes and trends were reinforced in the fourth quarter of 2011, including a handful of tech platform wannabes and the rumblings of a shakeout in social commerce. For… Read more »
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 »
Car sharing continues to roar on as one of the most tangible ways in which we’re seeing an ideal of the cleantech movement—reducing resource consumption—finding market appeal. Capital flowed to peer-to-peer… 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 »
Wal-Mart owned OTT platform VUDU also went toe-to-toe with traditional cable and satellite distributors, securing rights to show movies in a new, premium VOD window being created by the studios alongside… Read more »
But while Android’s momentum is undeniable, it is increasingly hindered by the growing threat of malware and the very real problem of fragmentation. Google is moving aggressively to address both challenges,… 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 »