Business Week has published a special edition this week of the Top 50 most innovative companies. The list is based on an annual survey of Corporate Executives conducted by BCG. Reading through the list it comes as no surprise to discover the Top 4 is Apple, Google, Microsoft and IBM. Nor is it a surprise… [Read more…]
April 17, 2010
Just thought I would spend a little time exploring the simple question: What is more profitable: A top ranking Tech Power Blog (e.g TechCrunch or GigaOm) or a Top Selling iPhone/iPad Developer (e.g. Tapulous)? And which one is easier to achieve for a start-up? Let’s begin by saying that neither task is easy and the odds… [Read more…]
April 14, 2010
The news today that Twitter has launched its much anticipated Advertising Platform raises the fundamental question is Twitter a platform where companies can build brands, service customers and conduct e-commerce today? The easiest way to understand the potential of Twitter as a plaftform for business to understand the economics and history of the SMS – after all… [Read more…]
April 13, 2010
In the first wave of the Internet the focus was on generating traffic. Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Amazon and eBay all built very successful web business models by attracting extraordinarily large audiences to their web sites. Meanwhile the Banks focused on reducing transaction costs by converting “real world” customers into online traffic. Traffic was King. It… [Read more…]
April 5, 2010
We’ve taken a look at what’s on the MobCon Radar for the leading newspapers, web portals, social networks, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Nokia so I guess it’s time to take a look at the web’s leading eCommerce brand names. Today both eBay and Amazon have about 75 Million unique visitors per month and they are… [Read more…]
April 4, 2010
A few questions have crossed my mind in recent days on the validity of the “Memium” media model I wrote about back in December last year. For example, why is it the Asian social networks were able to monetize relatively easily while Facebook and MySpace are still searching for a profitable model? Perhaps there is… [Read more…]
April 18, 2010
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