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Google’s Advertising Rev-Share Deals With Carriers
Well, at least part of the answer appears to be that Google is sharing advertising revenues with carriers that use Android, according to multiple sources who are familiar with the deals. via Android’s Secret Sauce? Google’s Advertising Rev-Share Deals With Carriers | mocoNews. This must be why AT&T replaced Google search with Bing on its Continue reading
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Best comment on iPad
Apple is alone hanging ten on the biggest wave to hit tech since ever. It’ll be a sight to behold, folks. link: BMO ups its iPad sales estimate 30% – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Brainstorm Tech Continue reading
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iPad screen order book at 13 million units
3:1 split between LG and Samsung. No word on timing for this production, but I doubt it’s longer than one year. My estimate is 6 million 2010 and about 15 million for calendar 2011. Samsung Gets Big Order for iPad Displays Continue reading
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Who will be the iPad's Orson Welles?
Time’s Managing Editor: iPad Content Awaits ‘Its Orson Welles’ – Digits – WSJ He compared it to the era after sound first came into motion pictures. For a while many movies were more like filmed plays, until directors really learned to take advantage of the opportunities of the medium. For the iPad, too, “the medium Continue reading
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Why Google is headed for trouble
Never mind the gossip and tales of intrigue. Ignore the stories of betrayal and affairs. Forget the animosity and ego tripping. No, the real reason you should be nervous if you are betting on Google long term is that Schmidt gave his first iPhone away. By August of 2007 it’s reported that “Schmidt had long Continue reading
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Symbian Admob impressions grow 22% in a year
Smartphone impressions triple in a year « Asymco Following up on the previous Admob numbers, it seems that Symbian impressions grew by 22% vs. overall growth of 43%. In absolute terms, total impressions a year ago for Symbian reached about 1 billion vs. 1.22b in February. Symbian’s share of requests therefore fell from 43% in Continue reading
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Smartphone impressions triple in a year
link: Smartphone traffic is up 193% in a year – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Brainstorm Tech What is important to observe is not the share numbers in the link above but the absolute growth and trend. Doing a bit of algebra from the data Admob provided we can calculate that: The overall traffic admob handled Continue reading
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Could the iPad become Apple's most popular product?
There were an estimated 228 million U.S. Web users in 2009, so if Apple was able to sell iPads to only one-third of those it would mean domestic sales of 76 million units. Link: San Jose Business Journal More interesting stats from Business Pulse survey by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal that was conducted between Continue reading
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200k apps (III)
Total Active Apps: 172,886 Total Inactive Apps: 27,468 Total Apps Seen: 200,354 Unique App Publishers: 34,468 via 148Apps.biz | iPhone development news and information for the community, by the community. Continue reading
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200k apps (II)
There are now well over 200,354 apps in the app store via 10,000 Apps! – Presented by 148Apps.com :: 10,000 iPhone and iPod Touch applications in the iTunes App Store. Continue reading
