Is the success of a startup positively or negatively correlated to the quantity and quality of its advisors?
Dopplr is headquartered in London but owned and operated by Dopplr Ltd. in Helsinki, Finland. The service is based on the idea of “intention broadcasting” where you publish your intention to visit somewhere in the future, thus making happy coincidences in your social network less and less coincidental (and thus happier, more efficient). Where or from whom the original idea came from is lost in the mists of time (perhaps someone can enlighten us in the comments?). continue reading...
I have been critical of Mark Zuckerberg and his brain trust at Facebook, yes.
But I’ve also been doled out a lot of praise. Sit down folks, this one is a love-fest. continue reading...
The following is a perpetual-work-in-progress. Once you start to compile a list of mergers and acquisitions, you realize why it’s nearly impossible to have a complete list. We are quite confident that the following is a very good, comprehensive list of the largest, more notable deals… but it is not - and no list will be - fully complete because there are too many countries around the world and too many industries to report (it is highly possible that the Wall Street Journal or Financial Post, for example, has such a list… but it would be thick and unwieldy).
We have included: continue reading...
Editor’s note: I knew we were speaking too soon. One more deal to add to the list: Time Warner to buy Quigo. Added to the bottom of the list, under ad networks.
According to The Jordan Edmiston Group Inc.’s October 2007 Client Briefing report, the number of deals through the first three quarters of 2007 exceeded full year 2006 figures: 637 transactions with $95B in value thus far. Do the math and that is $150M per deal, quite rich. continue reading...
Regardless of what you think about Apple’s Steve Jobs dropping the price of an iPhone by $200 two months after its launch and two months before Christmas… the reaction by Nokia was swift and suggests what to expect from advertising in years to come.
TV, historically the best medium to reach the masses, is slow. Case in point. The next morning, Nokia uses search advertising to sway Apple users / would-be users to consider Nokia: continue reading...
Well, well… India seems to be taking off… According to this article in ZDNET:
India has replaced the United States in the second quarter as Nokia’s second-biggest market by sales after China. continue reading...
Hearst Buys UGO - $100M
AOL Buys Tacoda - $200M continue reading...
From FT, via CompleteTosh:
“‘If the chief executive of Nokia had stood up and said he was launching a phone that was big and heavy, had no keyboard, was only 2G and not available for six months, he would have been crucified,” says Ben Wood, an analyst at CCS Insight. ‘It is unique that Apple have been able to get away with that.’ continue reading...
Like everyone, I’m sick of iPhone chatter. But like everyone, I can’t help but add my two cents on some things.
For a device that was supposed to sell like cupcakes, there are plenty of iPhones left. Makes you wonder if camping out was necessary. continue reading...
