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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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Libraries dumping of books could signal a new dark age
“In May, Sydney University announced its library “restructure”. This magnificent library, among the country’s finest, had already, a decade earlier, deacquisitioned some 60,000 books and theses. More recently there were further, unquantified and undeclared cloak-and-dagger dumpings to make space for the wifi and lounge-chairs that have given the once magical Fisher stack the look and […]
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When it comes to market capitalization, Facebook is officially bigger than IBM — Tech News and Analysis
“This Friday, August 8th, the stock market closed for the week with Facebook still holding a bigger market cap at $190 billion compared to IBM at $186 billion. It’s an impressive shift, given that Facebook is a much smaller company by other metrics. It has 7,185 employees to IBM’s 431,212, $7.87 billion in 2013 revenue […]
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Amazon Kindle post reveals what’s behind its feud with Hachette.
“In its post, Amazon makes a mathematical plea for why most e-books should be priced at $9.99, instead of $14.99 or $19.99, given that they don’t require printing, storage, or transportation. The company says it’s found that e-books priced at $9.99 sell 1.74 more copies than when they’re priced at $14.99. If you carry that […]
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YouTube’s 2013 revenue was reportedly $3.5 billion — Tech News and Analysis
“YouTube generated $3.5 billion in revenue for Google in 2013, according to a report from the Information, which also states that the video service was profitable last year. However, that number is below analyst estimates, which put YouTube’s 2013 revenue anywhere from $5 billion to $5.6 billion.” via YouTube’s 2013 revenue was reportedly $3.5 billion […]
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KEI statement on library exceptions at WIPO SCCR 28 | Knowledge Ecology International
“The three-step test was not initially intended to limit library exceptions. It was created in 1967, in the Berne Convention, in a limited way, and not to regulate all exceptions. It did not regulate the “particular” exceptions in the Berne Convention on a wide range of topics, including education, it did not regulate the first […]