Tom Foremski
Latest from Tom Foremski
Verizon Drops Nexus One. Is Google Pondering Being a Telco?
Google’s strategy with its Nexus One mobile phone is in trouble as Verizon drops plans for support. Bloomberg’s Amy Thomson reports: Without a Verizon partnership, Google loses access to the carrier’s more than 90 million customers, potentially blocking the phone from gaining more widespread popularity and hurting its competition with Apple Inc.’s iPhone. The breakdown ...
Analysis: Apple Buying ARM Makes No Sense
Apple’s ever growing stash of cash, now up to $41.7 billion, is helping to fuel speculation about what it will do with the money. In London, there are rumors that Apple will buy ARM, the UK chip design company, for around $8 billion. Rosamund Urwin at the London Evening Standard, reported: City aflame with takeover ...
Why is WPP Drumming Up Fear Over Facebook Ads?
Tim Bradshaw at FT.com reports (sub. required) that Sir Martin Sorrell, head of WPP, the world’s largest marketing and communications group, has doubts about mixing advertising with social networks, such as Facebook. Sir Martin warned on Tuesday that social media sites are ”less commercial phenomena, they are more personal phenomena”, more similar to ”writing letters ...
The NYT Just Now Discovers the Gender Gap in Tech
Judy Estrin one of our top serial entrepreneurs on why there was a gender gap. Claire Cain Miller at the NYTimes reports: Why So Few Women in Silicon Valley? Women own 40 percent of the private businesses in the United States, according to the Center for Women’s Business Research. But they create only 8 percent ...
Google’s Stock Price Falls Due to Traffic Acquisition Costs
Google’s Q1 2010 financial results beat Wall Street estimates but failed to meet private forecasts, or the whisper numbers. Richard Waters, at FT.com reported: Google reported net revenues of $5.06bn, excluding traffic acquisition costs. Net income climbed 33 per cent to $2.18bn, or $6.76 a share, on the pro-forma basis on which Wall Street judges ...
Seesmic Desktop Evolves Into A Multi-Publishing System
Seesmic is best known as a Twitter client but the company is moving in an interesting direction by turning its desktop software into a platform that enables users to publish to many platforms, not just Twitter, but to Facebook, LinkedIn, and more. It’s a great move, because we need tools where we can create content ...
The MS Kin’s Target Market: Guppies [Generation Upload]
I popped into the Microsoft announcement this morning of its Kin mobile phones — Verizon phones focused on social network sites with easy sharing of photos and videos. I spoke with Doug Free, a senior Microsoft representative, he said that the target market was "Guppies." "It’s what we call ‘generation upload," he said. The phones ...
On Oppression, Jon Doerr, and the Next Big (Closed) Thing
“Oppression feels really good and it’s very convenient.” – Baratunde Thurston on a recent episode of TWiT. John Doerr and fellow Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partners have published a post titled: The Next Big Thingand also announced they raised $200m for their second iFund. According to the KPCB VCs, there is a "brave new ...
Why Do Offline Publications Earn 50 Times More Online Than Web-Only Media?
A survey by Perfect Market, an online advertising optimization company, found that publications that publications that have an offline brand can earn as much as 50 times the revenues of brands that start off on the web. The exception is the web-only Huffington Post. The study looked at the top 100 news and media sites ...
Predicting the Future with the Real Time Web [HP Interview]
Computer scientists at Hewlett-Packard recently published a research study that showed that Twitter can predict the success of a movie better than any other measure, including the Hollywood Stock Exchange, considered the gold standard in the movie industry. The paper "Predicting the Future With Social Media" by Sitaram Asur and Bernardo Huberman, analyzed 2.89 million ...