By: Athina Kontosakou and Gregory Bufithis 18 May 2012 - The US cable industry is very big and very profitable. The four large publicly traded cable companies – Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, and Charter Communications – have an aggregate enterprise value of nearly $200bn. They face limited competition, have high and stable margins and [...]
By: Gregory P Bufithis, Esq. (with thanks to staffers Juan Di Lica, Andrea Valencia, Athina Kontosakou and Darius Champion) 30 April 2012 - On the heels of Mark Zuckerberg paying $1bn to eliminate the threat to Facebook from Instagram (which we wrote about here), with Yahoo unveiling (yet another) reorganization under its fifth chief executive in five years, and with [...]
16 April 2012 – The numbers are similar. Google paid $1.65bn for YouTube in 2006. YouTube (thanks to the incredible leverage of the web) was an online video start-up with only 65 employees but had already amassed 20m regular users in less than two years. Revenue? Well, [...]
16 April 2012 - Let Games begin! In what almost every pundit is calling the “World Series” or “World Cup” of intellectual property trials”, the Google/Oracle trial gets underway today with jury selection in a federal court in San Francisco. And it is a biggie. The trial marks the [...]
24 February 2012 – Last week the U.S Congress announced (as part of a jobs bill) that there would be an auctioning off a bunch of UHF airwaves that were used by local television stations in the U.S. to broadcast on channels below 52. Since the switch to all-digital television in 2009, these airwaves are [...]
21 February 2012 – In his international bestseller “The Hare With Amber Eyes”, Edmund de Waal traces the fortune of a collection of carved Japanese netsuke figurines. Readers grew so entranced by the story of these objects that they started clamoring to see them. So after the hardback, the e-book, and the paperback came the [...]
15 February 2012 – Last year there were a series of dire warnings that app developers would be driven from the U.S. by the activities of NPEs. But lo and behold, TechNet (a telecom/technology CEO network that to which we subscribe) says au contraire. The surge in mobile software and other apps has led to a surge in [...]
14 February 2012 – Last week we had a chance to attend FutureMed, a health-care program that is part of Singularity University, a networked organization dedicated to exploring how disruptive technologies can sweep across whole industries and society. This came on the heels of LegalTech 2012 in New York [...]
1 February 2012 – Your primary iTunes account is always set depending on the country you reside in. I live in Belgium. So this can present some problems if you’re a keen iPhone/iPad app fan and you travel a lot (like I do) and there are certain apps that are not available in all territories. While this guide is [...]
25 January 2012 – The entire tech community has been quick to compare Apple’s blowout figures announced yesterday to a range of other comparators – some more financially insightful than others. FT Techhub scoured the web for reaction and came up with these: AppleInsider notes that Apple sold more iPads than HP sold PCs, by Gartner’s [...]
