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Vol.47 – 2011 Trend of Social Media: Worldwide and Japan (Part 3)

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by Megumi Oyanagi

This article is the last part of the discussion on social media 2010 trend and 2011 outlook for Japan, focusing on similarities and differences of those of rest of the world mentioned in recent blog articles, following Vol.46 – 2011 Trend of Social Media: Worldwide and Japan (Part 2).

7. Privacy and guideline are trend worldwide, and Japan may start to follow this trend

Privacy and guideline issues have been hot in 2009 and 2010 in English sources and this is expected to be a trend in 2011, but no yet in Japan.  Having said that, these should start to become great concerns also in Japan because popularization of social media means that everyone can be a publisher, everyone can access to information online around the globe from anywhere, and with functions such as news feeds and Like buttons of Facebook and retweet of Twitter information could go viral online worldwide at once. Continue reading →

Infostate of Africa

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By jongos

People often only see Africa from one perspective, here’s another. The above infographic details some of the happenings over the past few years in regards to infrastructure improvement and capacity building in Africa, particularly in the area of the internet and cost. The sources are various reports from the International Monetary Fund, InternetWorldStats, the Millennium Development Goals, research papers, various websites, executive market research and more; compiling some fascinating facts about the continent’s ‘infostate’ (trends in information technology and communication). Continue reading →

Netflix Jumps On Amazon Takeover Rumor

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Article by: Dan Frommer

Netflix (NFLX) shares are up 6.6% today on speculation that Amazon (AMZN) could buy the movie rental service.

Bloomberg: “There’s heavy call buying and the stock is up on renewed takeover talk, with Amazon being mentioned specifically,” said Fred Ruffy, the senior options strategist at WhatsTrading.com, a New York-based provider of options market analysis. “It’s pretty typical of speculative call buying.”

This isn’t as strange a deal as it sounds: While Amazon and Netflix both operate in the DVD and digital movie businesses, their pricing models don’t really overlap. Amazon sells DVDs and offers digital movie rentals and purchases on an a la carte basis, while Netflix sells DVD and digital rental subscriptions.

Netflix has also been more successful than Amazon getting its digital movies distributed on more consumer electronics devices, though it’s still too early to call a winner there.

Netflix shares peaked around $50 in April and have since dropped about 20%.

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http://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-jumps-on-amazon-takeover-rumor-2009-7

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Our Full Analysis of the $7.4B Oracle-Sun Deal

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By: Om Malik

Updated: Less than a month after it walked away from a $7 billion deal with IBM, Sun Microsystems says that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with database and enterprise software giant Oracle. Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and debt. It’s been approved by Sun’s board of directors. Continue reading →

Google versus Yahoo – A tale of two cities

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Article by Sanjay Dalal

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) are two of the 20 innovators of The Innovation Index.


“Google’s sites had 528 million visitors worldwide in March 2007, a 13 percent gain from the same month a year ago, according to ComScoreInc.. Microsoft had 527 million, while Yahoo had 476.3 million, the researcher said.The popularity of searching the Web and new sites such as YouTube helped Google grow faster than both its biggest rivals. Products such as the Gmail e-mail service, an online calendar and an online payments system are drawing users even though they aren’t nearly as popular as Google’s search engine.”

Google already is the most-popular Internet search engine, drawing 48 percent of U.S. queries in March 2007, according to ComScore. Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo was the most-visited U.S. Web site in February and also had the most repeat visits of any Web site.

In March 2007 I wrote a report on Can Yahoo Catch Google? after Yahoo had recently launched Project Panama, Yahoo’s answer to Google AdWords and the making of a better search mechanism.

In the last two weeks both Yahoo and Google announced their earnings for the latest quarter. Project Panama had not yet impacted Yahoo’s topline revenue; however, Yahoo officials are hopeful that Panama will have some impact in 2007. The question from the investors and analysts looms is how much impact Project Panama will have when the dust settles. Continue reading →