Cooliris’ revenue chief: Ad market tanking? Not for us
I’ve spent a lot of time writing about how a startup called Cooliris continues to build a fun experience for exploring video and other media with its 3D wall, but I’ve heard a lot less about the business side. Recently Shashi Seth, the Palo Alto, Calif., company’s chief revenue officer (formerly head of monetization at [...]
Roundup: Amazon’s apology, Yahoo/Microsoft search meeting, Google comics themes
Yahoo’s board of directors is meeting tonight over Microsoft search partnership — The Wall Street Journal reports that another meeting over a potential search advertising partnership happened today.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos apologizes for erasing customers’ e-books — Last week, the company remotely deleted copies of George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 from the Kindles of [...]
DreamBox Succeeds At Tricking Kids Into Learning Math [News Update]
Seven months ago, DreamBox Learning launched its math-based edutainment site for kids between kindergarten and second grade. Today, it’s making virtual headlines with success stories. The Wall Street Journal reports that DreamBox — along with other web-based learning game sites like SmartyCard, Brightstorm and Grockit — is closing the gap between between a child’s expected [...]
Why Did Google Let Yahoo Run Off With Xoopit?
Yahoo has acquired e-mail startup Xoopit for a reported $20 million according to multiple reports. The deal, which was first reported to be in the final stages of closing earlier this morning by the Wall Street Journal, is expected to be announced at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference as early as tomorrow.
Xoopit essentially offers an easy [...]
iPhone — 20% Profit Share of Mobile Industry?
The Wall Street Journal (via MacRumors) published a report stating that while Apple’s iPhone, and RIM’s BlackBerry make up only 3% of mobile phone sales last year, the gobbled up a huge 35% take of the profits. iPhone specifically was pegged at 1% of sales and 20% of profit. Boom! indeed.
Says Deutsche Bank analyst Brian [...]
RIM and Apple hold 3% of the wireless market, 35% of profits
Deutsche Bank analyst Brian Modoff fed some figures to the Wall Street Journal this morning and to say they speak volumes for the effectiveness of both RIM and Apple’s strategies is a gross understatement. Two companies, 3 percent of the global cell phone market, 35 percent of the operating profits. Sheesh. It’s no mystery that [...]
Apple and RIM to share more than half of cellphone industry profits this year
Apple’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s Blackberry are on track to make up more than half of the mobile phone industry’s profits this year, according to Deutsche Bank.
The two companies may contribute 58 percent of the industry’s operating profits this year even though their handsets only account for 5 percent of the market, predicted [...]
Verizon loosens up their exclusive deals – sort of
According to the Wall Street Journal, Verizon has announced a change to their policies on exclusive handset deals. Under the terms of the new policy, Verizon will allow handset manufacturers to sell otherwise VZW-exclusive models to small wireless carriers (those with less than 500,000 subscribers) after a 6-month period.
Now, we’re all for getting rid [...]
Peek cuts Peek Classic, Peek Pronto prices to $19.95 and $59.95
Peek’s already offered lifetime subscriptions and all sorts of other incentives in the hope of wooing folks away from more expensive smartphones, and it looks like the company’s now giving good old fashioned price cuts a(nother) try. As The Wall Street Journal reports, the basic Peek Classic has been slashed to just $19.95, down from [...]
In the cards for Android: more payment options, better social capabilities
Just as we can look forward to the “two major, two minor” updates a year for Android, it looks like we can count on them to respond to pressure from both users and competitors when it comes to feature inclusion. At a recent T-Mo/Google event, Google’s Andy Rubin discussed some future capabilities for Android, although [...]
