28 Nov 2011 /
November 29th morning news, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said on Monday, AOL didn’t plan to acquire any assets of Yahoo.
Armstrong reiterated the company’s strategy that is keeping the company independent and rely on advertising revenue then make the company to a media giants. In the previous, AOL was well-known as dial-up services, but ailing now.
Since Armstrong as the AOL CEO in 2009, AOL has conducted a number of acquisitions, including acquisition of the political blog “Huffington Post” and the technology blog TechCrunch.
Armstrong said that since TechCrunch acquired by AOL, the valuation has been rising. Sources said, AOL was for $30 million acquisition of TechCrunch.
21 Nov 2011 /
November 21th news, according to media reports, for most companies, in television field the possibility of success is not large, it can stop Google’s step.
Get the right content is the biggest challenge that enter into the television field. The most popular program is provide by satellite TV and cable television company, they are providing TV programs about 100 million American families. The profits of Satellite TV and cable TV company is large, because people pay huge fees for the program which they didn’t watch. Programme production company is not willing to sale large programs to apple or Google and other companies, they are concerning that will destroy the existing model.
Google TV almost did not win any success, on intelligent TV market share less than 1%. Market research firm Strategy Analytics said, intelligent TV manufacturers usually choose their own operating system.
However, Google’s Android operating system in intelligent mobile phone market experience is worth to remember. The forth quarter of 2008, Android smart phone’s market share only 2%, at present has reached 56%. One reason of manufacturers are using the Android maybe it has a large number of cooperation resources company and better compete with the iPhone. Apple and Google in the smart phone market war may display again in intelligent TV market.
14 Nov 2011 /
November 14th news, according to media reports, Jack Dorsey in Techonomy congress disclosed that Square now daily processing turnover for $11 million. But Dorsey in the background told the host David Kirkpatrick that Square the official figure is 10 million dollars. However, in July last year the Squar daily turnover only for $4 million.
Dorsey think that the key factors promote the Square rapid growth are same as Twitter’s, the users can use them to do any things with different purpose. He said: “we don’t too define the usage of the people. We won’t let Square become a rental car. We won’t let Twitter provide service only for famous people and politicians.”
Square and Twitter has an another common point, that is they exchange technology essentially. Dorsey think: “this is a medium of communication for business and clients.” Merchants and payers communication is the cornerstone of the value of exchange, in order to create exchanges, payment is a thing we need to do.