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6 decembrie '12WSJ: Is Google looking at owning a wireless network?
Mr. Schmidt: I’m sure we will discuss this, but at the moment we’re busy working on wireline [Internet]. This Kansas City stuff [where Google is rolling out a high-speed fiber network] is extraordinarily exciting, and we’re focusing on that.
The current spectrum shortage [currently facing the mobile industry] is real, but it’s an artifact of a licensing and regulatory error. New technology allows there to be lots of spectrum, far more than you could use.
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Doua din media
3 decembrie '12„Another game of thrones”
1 decembrie '12The tech industry has a history of bitter rivalries: IBM and Apple in the 1980s; Microsoft and Netscape in the 1990s. But the rivalries shaping the market today are even richer and more complicated, not least because they have a personal edge. Three of the big four are still run by men who made their billions as founder, or co-founder, of their empires—Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Google’s Larry Page and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. And although Jobs no longer rules Apple, he groomed Tim Cook, his successor as chief executive. “In the modern history of technology we have never seen such a highly engaged group of chief executives and founders,” says Mary Meeker, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a venture-capital company.
$100 milioane vs $5 miliarde
30 noiembrie '12Google: 100 milioane USD investiti in continut pentru YouTube
TimeWarner: 5 miliarde USD investiti in continut
Guess who will have better numbers at the end? :)
But Bewkes’s most salient remark about original content was a reference to YouTube, which is now investing $100 million a year in original content.
When Google announced that number, the tech industry gawped: $100 million! On content!
And tech industry pundits heralded the announcement as the latest nail in the coffin of TV.
Bewkes, however, put this number into perspective.
This year alone, he pointed out, Time Warner will spend $5 billion on content.
In other words, YouTube, welcome to the kiddie table.
Diseara, gala Prosport 15 ani
29 noiembrie '12Asa cum zice Lucian, o gala cum nu a mai fost. O gala pentru tot ceea ce a reprezentat Prosport in acesti 15 ani, o gala a sportului romanesc. Intr-un an cu Olimpiada.
Multumesc colegilor care au lucrat din vara pentru a pregati aceasta gala de poveste. O Gala cu Nadia, cu Hagi, cu Ilie Nastase, cu Tiriac, cu Gabi Szabo, cu Bute, cu Patzaichin, cu Duckadam, cu Novak, cu Nicu Vlad, cu Belu si Bitang, cu Iolanda Balas, cu Lipa, cu toti ceilalti sportivi care au pus Romania pe harta. Diseara, de la 7, live pe Sport.ro
Huh?
28 noiembrie '12Pe 9 noiembrie, dou? bloguri, reporter virtual ?i tolo, au publicat informa?ia potrivit c?reia guvernul Ponta încearc? s? modifice tiptil legea audiovizualului, ca s? favorizeze televiziunile în raport cu societ??ile de cablu, cu agen?iile de publicitate ?i cu CNA.
Pe 14 noiembrie, biroul de pres? de la Palatul Victoria era întrebat de Hotnews ce se mai întîmpl? cu Ordonan?a ?i r?spundea: ”Nu mai e de actualitate”.
Pe 27 noiembrie, Ordonan?a se reactualizeaz? rapid ?i brutal, l?sîndu-l masc? inclusiv pe purt?torul de cuvînt, trimis s? înfrunte mir?rile publice. Pe pagina de media g?si?i secven?a cu Andrei Zaharescu ?i textul cu modific?rile împlinite în Ordonan??.
De la Tolo, care cred ca a muncit toata noaptea la postul respectiv.
Urmariti si dialogul presei cu purtatorul de cuvant al guvernului, transcrierea o gasiti tot pe blogul lui Tolontan:
Trecand peste prevederile ordonantei, mi se pare incredibil ca in 14 noiembrie ordonanta sa nu mai fie de actualitate, raspuns oficial, iar ieri sa fie aprobata. Nu credeam ca voi spune asta dar incep sa-l regret pe Boc, macar era previzibil.
Altfel, ca om de media, cu ceva experienta prin zona asta, nu cred ca poti purta un razboi cu toate agentiile de media. Mai te lupti cu una, mai negociezi cu alta, mai incetezi raporturile comerciale cu urmatoarea, dar, cu toate, well, cu toate nu a castigat nimeni razboiul pana acum.
eMag s-a vandut la o evaluare de 115 milioane USD
28 noiembrie '12ZF-ul vine cu cifre in tranzactia anului in onlineul din .ro, Naspers a cumparat 70% din eMag cu 83 milioane USD ceea ce inseamna o evaluarea de aproape 120 milioane USD. Si asa tranzactia anului devine tranzactia deceniului. Mare realizare, felicitari Radu si Iulian!
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28 noiembrie '12De citit tot articolul
People tell themselves that failure is ok — part of the process, even.
In fact, Silicon Valley has almost created a cult of ‘failure’, celebrating it as though it were a badge of honor.
But people don’t fear failure. They fear shame.
They don’t fear the consequences of failure — not getting rich, having to do their old job again, etc. They fear the shame of looking their old co-workers in the eye.
And they fear the shame of little things too…
They fear being ashamed when they sit at a table with their co-founders and try to come up with a name for their new company. Do you know why so many companies have shitty names? Because all the co-founders were afraid to throw out crazy ideas that might get laughed at. So they end up with horrible names like Trippy or Contently.
Trei despre Black Friday
26 noiembrie '12la ei:
1. Vanzarile online la americani au depasit $1 miliard pentru prima oara. Sursa
2. Apple e mult peste Google/Android daca ne uitam la datele statistice, peste 88% din tabletele care „au cumparat” au fost iPad-uri, iar in cifrele totale iPhone si iPad au de 3 ori mai mult decat Android, 8.7% + 9.8% vs 5.5%
3.
Only 0.68% of Black Friday online sales came from Facebook referrals–two-thirds of one percent. That was a decline of 1% from last year.
And how about Twitter? A couple of years ago, people were excited about Twitter’s potential as a commerce platform, too.
But Twitter’s impact on ecommerce, it seems, is zero. Not „basically zero.”
Zero.
Commerce site traffic from Twitter accounted for exactly 0.00% of Black Friday traffic. That was down from 0.02% last year.