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Why Eric Schmidt doesn’t know how Google works | VentureBeat | Entrepreneur | by Tom Cheredar
According to the company’s 2013 financial filings, 83 percent of Google’s revenue came from ads, about 7 percent from Motorola which is now gone, and 10 percent from everything else. In other words, when you add up all the revenue from Google Apps Gmail, Docs, Drive, Maps, etc. together with the Android and other mobile […]
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The World Cup Flopping Ranking – WSJ
“Fans of the world’s most popular game know that this is just one of soccer’s oldest and most universally despised tactics. Turning a small foul into a death performance worthy of La Scala can draw cards for opposing players, kill time from the clock or just give one’s winded teammates a breather. What’s interesting about […]
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Dangerous S-Curves Ahead! | The Computer Boys Take Over
“My lecture on “dangerous s-curves” was created specifically to talk about the adoption of electronic digital computing technology, and in particular the personal computer. It is easy to interpret the history of the PC as a part of a “changing pace of technology” argument — but only if you ignore the many decades of technological […]
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The Anatomy of a Forgotten Social Network | MIT Technology Review
“Approximately 3/4 of the first reblogs occur within the first hour and 95.84 percent appear within one day,” they say. By contrast, on twitter about half of retweeting occurs within an hour and 75 percent within a day, they say. “Tumblr is more vibrant and faster,” say the Yahoo researchers.This work provides a useful snapshot […]
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Google Stats
“Here are some official stats for the most important Google services and software: Google Search – 1 billion users (September 2010), 100 billion searches per month (August 2012) Google Maps – 1 billion monthly active users (June 2012) YouTube – 1 billion unique users every month (March 2013) Android – 900 million activations (May 2013) […]
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Groklaw – Patent Trolls – A New Study and a Survey ~ mw
via groklaw.net “Bessen/Meurer paper. Here are some of the highlights: The number of defendants in NPE patent suits doubled from 2009 (approximately 2,700) to 2011 (more than 5,800). Direct costs of patent assertions by NPEs are costing our nation…