As expected the Facebook bubble is set to burst with the scrip plunging on monday tripping Nasdaq circuit breakers. As FB sinks to realistic levels, derivatives that hedge FB’s high prices may spurt.
With a $100 billion valuation to justify Facebook has been under investor pressure to increase revenue streams. Last month Silicon Valley’s VC firms like Accel Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, and Wall Street biggies like Goldman Sachs recommended that Facebook start off its online stores like eBay and Amazon. Facebook it appears is taking the investors [...]
Students and other focused users have started depending on smaller dedicated education centric search engines or apps
Mobile users are slowly taking over social media as smart phones,texting and aps downloads become order of the day.
A PwC report for IAB shows a high 22% growth in digital adverising and a explosive 3 fold growth in the mobile segment
Will Facebook convert its social relationship website into a bustling e commerce mega store ? Revenue stream compulsions post IPO !
Can online micropayments for content be succesful after the mobile world and Kindle and iTunes have shown the way. ?
As per Forbes Google earns 96% of its revenue through ads. Google ads do little for other stakeholders like the publisher who gets less than 1% of the revenue or the advertiser but have helped built a $44 billion cash pile for Google .
In December 2012 the UN will vote on a resolution to regulate the internet that could benefit mobile users but harm the free flowing nature of the world wide web
Cloud Services are slowly becoming the ‘work engine’ of the internet.. However with big and small sevice providers getting into the act price slashing has already started
Facebook IPO seeks a valuation of $80 billion to $100billion though it has hardly any asset or revenue track record that justifies such a valuation. Wall Street is heavily backing the issue scenting huge underwriting profits.
In July 2010 Google reluctantly agreed to abide by China Laws during the annual licence renewal. Now Twitter is following Google Compliance Strategy to Protect Overseas Markets
Groupon model is a complex hybrid human technology interface that fully wired web giants behind swanky desks would find difficult to replicate says Andrew Mason.
Google + Results in Google Search evokes protest. Is Larry Page tweaking Google’s long term models to maximise its ad revenue?




