The adoption of Kubernetes-enabled infrastructures and applications has revealed the challenge involved in enabling persistent, reliable data storage in an ephemeral compute…
Read MoreGoogle is buying Wildfire, another one of those companies that makes some technology but whose primary business is more like an ad…
Read MoreI’d argue NBC Universal is pushing harder against the boundaries of online streaming than social media in its Olympics coverage, so it’s…
Read MoreLast Thursday, Facebook did its first earnings call as a public company. Though it showed a solid 32 percent revenue growth to $1.2 billion, reactions were mixed at best and the stock suffered. Unrealistic expectations are causing people to overlook Facebook’s fitful progress in online advertising, and signs that it really does have a clue in mobile.…
Read MoreLate last year I wrote a short piece on some of the social media and other means online publishers could use for…
Read MoreFacebook’s advertising revenue was up 28 percent to just under a billion dollars – $992 million. Its take from sales of (mostly…
Read MoreWhen AOL reported its quarterly earnings, it showed that overall online advertising was up 6 percent, but that was driven primarily by…
Read MoreGolly, according to all these studies from Facebook marketing companies, and from Facebook itself, mobile Facebook users are totally awesome! Users who…
Read MoreMicrosoft’s struggles to make a successful business out of advertising led to the company posting its first-ever quarterly loss. Some have been saying for years Microsoft should never have gotten into media. Is it about to get out?…
Read MoreTwitter will join Facebook as a social media “partner” for NBC Universal’s Olympics extravaganza. No money is changing hands in either arrangement.…
Read MoreSearch was the quarter’s bright spot – well, relatively speaking – for Microsoft’s online business. But one wonders if two of Microsoft’s…
Read MoreFacebook and, to a lesser extent, Google continued to dominate social and online media in the second quarter. Activity in the social-enterprise space picked up as well. Key highlights from the quarter include:…
Read MoreGoogle and Microsoft both reported their quarterly results today (it’s Microsoft’s fiscal Q4). Let’s compare media businesses. Microsoft’s online media business was up…
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