Will it also become a tablet company? Google plans to buy Motorola Mobility, the mobile phone part of Motorola, for $12.5 Billion and a $2.5 Billion breakup fee (what Google has to pay Motorola if the deal does not go through). Shrewd comments on the strategic reasons for the acquisition are coming from MG Siegler and Florian Mueller.
This is a big deal — a lot of money, and a lot of employees and mind-share. Google says that they … Keep Reading
Apple is poised to become the biggest company in the world by ‘market capitalisation’. It maybe briefly inched ahead of EXXON yesterday in chaotic market trading, but it will very surely be well ahead of the pack by the end of the year. Apple’s sales and profits are rocketing and the value of the company is still being significantly underestimated by the markets.
The remarkable fact is that although Apple is now a large company by any standards (annualised sales … Keep Reading
In looking to the promising digital future for magazines it is essential that publishers separate out two questions:
These are very different questions. But the answers that we come up with are going to have a bearing, the one on the other. And vice versa. The magazine publisher has to get both right!
Over-simplifying wildly, there are currently three views … Keep Reading
We have a new app in the iTunes app store with some cool bonus media. I have also been experimenting with Google+ and Webdoc (first impressions: very useful and cloud-based) to see how we can give a few glimpses of the magazine apps that are coming through from us in increasing profusion…..
Some screenshots from the Jazzwise app. There is some music in the magazine app, but I have used the Webdoc tool to grab a fragment of Archie … Keep Reading
There is a fascinating confusion now reigning in the higher reaches of the Microsoft empire.
Steve Balmer and his team are convinced that tablets should be viewed as PCs, and that there is no need to put a mobile operating system on Windows tablets (“iPads and tablets are just a different form factor of PC”). They appear to have completely misread the reasons for the success of Apple’s iOS and its iPhone and iPad devices. As Horace Dediu notes:
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