Google’s share price has underperformed in recent years. Despite growing strongly, even through the credit crisis, investors appear to have misunderstood Google’s strategy and feared that competitors may steal a march on the search engine giant. Investors instead fell in love with Facebook and Apple, the latter probably completely justified given its enormous profitability. Many […]
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Google Buys Motorola = Genius
August 15, 2011 
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I’ve just read the news that Google has agreed to buy Motorola Mobility for $40 per share in cash, totalling around $12.5billion. This is an absolutely genius move by Google and pulls the rug out from under Apple and Microsoft who have been aggressively targeting anyone that manufactures Android devices. Firstly, there is the price. […]
Continue readingNokia & Microsoft Partnership #FAIL
February 12, 2011 2 Comments
So, Nokia hire an ex-Microsoft employee as CEO to turn around their business and guess what he does … he nails Nokia’s smartphone future to Microsoft and their ‘Windows Phone’ platform. On the face of it, it looks like sheer laziness for an ex-Microsoft man to call up his old bosses to strike a deal. […]
Continue readingFacebook Smartphone
January 27, 2011 0 Comments
Rumours have resurfaced that in February one of the world’s leading smartphone manufacturers, HTC, is due to unveil two Facebook-branded handsets. These will run a modified version of the Android operating system and be fully branded in line with Facebook’s look & feel (blue, grey & white). Supposedly due to be announced at the 2011 […]
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