Good morning, Happy Independence Day to all of my readers in the United States, and an early happy weekend to those of you in the rest of the world. Due to the holiday there will be no Daily Update tomorrow. On to today’s updates: Microsoft’s Muddle Continues There are three interesting items on Microsoft that,Subscribe […]
Daily Update: Twitter Buys Tap Commerce, Launches App Install Ads; Rakuten Launches Venture Fund
Good morning, I’m writing from Seoul’s Incheon Airport where we spent the night. Tomorrow’s update will come from Madison. On to the updates: Twitter Buys Tap Commerce Recode broke the news of Twitter’s latest acquisition: Twitter is in the process of acquiring Tap Commerce, a New York-based mobile advertising technology firm, according to sources familiarSubscribe […]
Daily Update: The Aereo Case, Searching Phones Requires a Warrant, GoPro’s Successful IPO
Good morning, Yesterday I posted my promised piece about Android Wear specifically and contextual computing broadly (I’m a bit skeptical of both). Check it out here: Economic Power in the Age of Abundance. On to today’s update: The Aereo Case The Supreme Court decided against Aereo, a startup that offered a service which transmitted over-the-airSubscribe […]
Nest Buys Dropcam, Amazon Coins for Fire Phone Developers, Yahoo’s Digital Magazines
Good morning, I am still trying to recover from that U.S. soccer game. What could have been! At least there is always plenty of tech news to draw us in. On to the update: Google Nest Buys Dropcam On Friday Nest announced they were buying Dropcam, a home monitoring service. From Recode: Dropcam, the popularSubscribe […]
Daily Update: Privacy is Dead Follow-up, Facebook Launches Google+, Praising Adobe (and a bit on disruption)
Good morning, There has certainly been a lot of chatter about disruption over the last 24 hours; I know many of you have asked for my opinion about Jill Lepore’s article in the New Yorker. I suspect James Allworth and I will touch on this on Exponent, but for now, I would say that theSubscribe […]
Daily Update: Amazon’s PR Runup, Box Acquires Streem, Priceline Acquires OpenTable
Good morning, Two acquisitions and anticipation for a big announcement – there’s always something interesting in tech! On to the update: Amazon’s Press Release Runup Amazon is doing something interesting in the runup to tomorrow’s announcement, which most expect to be a Kindle smartphone: they are effectively pre-announcing multiple features that will likely be sellingSubscribe […]
Daily Update: Alibaba Buys Out UCWeb, Dropbox Buys MobileSpan, Will Microsoft Undercut AWS on Price?
Good morning, I forgot to link in yesterday’s update, but in case you missed it I wrote a piece on Stratechery defending Uber’s $18.2 billion valuation. To be clear, I’m not saying that Uber is guaranteed to succeed, but rather the size of the opportunity and the relative risk involved make it an obvious investmentSubscribe […]
Daily Update: Amazon’s Phone Announcement, Apple’s New Ad, Twitter Buys Namo Media
Good morning, Today is my last day in San Francisco; I will have a Daily Update for tomorrow, but it may be a bit shorter than usual. I’m looking forward to getting back on my usual schedule next week. On to the update: Amazon Teases Smartphone Event From Bloomberg: Amazon.com Inc. is planning to introduceSubscribe […]
Daily Update: Apple Announces Beats Acquisition, Beats Music to Remain on Android, Square Launches Cash Advance
Good morning, I wouldn’t have published Why Apple is Buying Beats were I not pretty certain that the deal was done; that said, it sure took a long time to become final, but final it is. That piece I wrote still applies, as does this podcast. On to the updates: Apple Announces Beats Acquisition FromSubscribe […]
Daily Update: JD.com Prices IPO, Google’s SEC Letter, Patent Reform Dies
Good morning, My Surface piece got pushed to today, so keep an eye out for that later. On to today’s update: JD.com Prices IPO While tons of attention has been paid to Alibaba’s forthcoming IPO, JD.com, China’s 2nd-largest e-commerce company, has flown under the radar. From the BBC: Chinese online retailer JD.com has raised $1.8bnSubscribe […]