Versatile Amphibian

I’m of the belief that participants in the TMT industry need to read widely in order to understand the present and future dynamics of the market. To that end, this post is a collection of the articles that have caught my eye. This week: robots, holograms, hacking save/ destroy world, Valve to make hardware, Samsung vs Apple rumbles on and authors take on sock puppets in by the numbers death match Digital media The first of many Amazon stories this week: their growing publishing arm is to sell its ebooks on other competing content ecosystems. Another step towards Amazon being fully vertically integrated in the book market. http://paidcontent.org/2012/08/29/exclusive-amazon-ny-to-sell-its-ebooks-through-bn-kobo-other-retailers/ Google have quietly given up their efforts to provider a bid style model for TV ad slots. Turns out TV is hard to disrupt... http://google-tvads.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/an-update-on-google-tv-ads.html Arguably the recent Amazon and B&N announcements a...

I’m of the belief that participants in the TMT industry need to read widely in order to understand the present and future dynamics of the market. To that end, this post is a collection of the articles that have caught my eye. This (now: last) week: Samsung overtakes Nokia, Facebook & Netflix results disappoint while Apple and Amazon delight, Cameron mines asteroids ; MIT weaves a building. New business models In case you were under a rock this week, one of the biggest stories was Samsung overtaking Nokia as the world’s largest mobile handset manufacturer. My only caveat on this story is that I’m not a massive fan of Strategy Analytics’ data – it tends to have a slight slant, particularly as they’re the only people Samsung give data to. Still, the writing’s clearly on the wall for Nokia... http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/samsung-overtakes-nokia-as-worlds-largest-phone-maker-27-04-2012/ ...and all’s not well internally – here, Nokia’s Windows strategy receives a good kicking...