Tag Archives: Amazon

In May this year I made an amateur estimate of Facebook’s valuation at the time of the IPO and ended up with a number that looked crazy; my maths told me the stock price should be more like $7 than ...

I got a bit of a shock wandering around Barnes High Street last weekend. Where are all the shops? For those who don’t know London, Barnes is a well-heeled, leafy, village-like community, just south of the Thames. I saw at ...

WPP brand agency Added Value has revealed the results of its second annual Cultural Traction survey which purports to measure cultural relevance as an early indicator of brand success. In the study, Apple led the way as the brand most ...

Potential investors in Facebook are fretting that the social network, due for a $100bn IPO later this year, has no evident mobile advertising strategy. But just a year ago Facebook followers were bemoaning the absence of a credible advertising strategy ...

Stricken Canadian mobile company Research in Motion (RIM) which makes BlackBerry has dumped its two joint chairmen and CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie and replaced them with COO Thorsten Heins (pictured) who joined from Siemens in 2007. Heins’ job ...

The late Steve Jobs was nearly as interested in advertising as he was in his beloved products and in 1985, the year after Apple’s triumphant Super Bowl debut with Ridley Scott and Chiat Day’s ‘1984’ launch commercial for the Macintosh, ...

The only commercial doubt over Facebook was the challenge of converting its humungous global numbers – 500m users and rising – into cash. But now researcher eMarketer says that its ad revenue will hit $4.05bn this year (very precise), up ...

Walmart, the world’s biggest retailer, seems to be serious about this online business, buying social media specialist Kosmix as the foundation of a new Silicon Valley-based operation @WalmartLabs. Kosmix filters and organises material for social media for individual users so ...

Amazon’s new Kindle book reader, due to start shipping in the US in May, will feature full screen screensaver ads and banner ads at the bottom of pages. The new Kindle at $114 will be $25 cheaper than the current ...