Weekly Tech News for May 14, 2012
Market Analysis & Industry News 50% of US mobile subscribers use smart phones according to a March Nielsen study. Android has 48% share to Apple’s 32%. Smartphone use skews toward [...]
The increasing importance of building a stand alone business
It’s hard to invest in ad tech these days. Why? The ecosystem is so concentrated. Google and Facebook are the only active buyers in the market place. Google dominates search [...]
More Americans use social media than hold stock
Last year, for the first time ever, more Americans used social media than purchased stocks. An odd comparison, I admit, until I read this in the paper this morning: Most [...]
Weekly Tech News for May 7, 2012
Market Analysis & Industry News For the first time, paid TV services (1.5M) lost more subscribers than it gained (1.1M). Similarly, time spent watching TV fell by 0.5%. DVR usage [...]
Microsoft’s Innovation Strategy: Don’t Build; Invest.
In the past several years, Microsoft has changed their innovation strategy: invest rather than build. The latest of these is the $300M investment in the Nook division of Barnes & Noble. [...]
Weekly Tech News for April 29, 2012
Market Analysis & Industry News MoPub has released an analysis that forecasts mobile ad rates will fall by 24% from $0.76, compared to $0.58 as a result of Apple’s prohibition [...]
Mobile app downloads fall 30% in March
Mobile app downloads fell by 30 percent, or 2 million downloads, in March, returning to pre-iPhone 4S launch levels. The cost of acquiring a loyal user (one who opens an [...]
