The latest rumor from rumor mill is about Google Retail stores. As reported by Amir Efrati on WSJ, Google Inc. is working on plans to launch retails stores to compete with Apple Inc. and Microsoft. After the Motorola acquisition its a very likely possibility but it may not be a good business decision. Lets look [...]
Today Microsoft announced Office 365 Home Premium, a cloud based office suite, which includes office applications for up to 5 devices including PCs, tablets, and Macs; and also includes extra SkyDrive storage and Skype calling. This is a frontal attack at the Google docs, drive and voice package that Google is trying to push into schools, small [...]
Over the last year Android extended its lead over iOS and Samsung became the world’s largest smartphone maker supported by Google’s Android. And these trends boosted the confidence of both Samsung and Google executives as reflected in their recent public comments and frontal marketing attacks by Samsung. As Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said, “This is [...]
Google in partnership with Samsung announced the new chromebook priced at $249 and New York Times correctly identifies the shift in Google’s marketing strategy. A clear shift in Google’s strategy to target the average consumers, who are not really cloud friendly. A closer look at the specifications reveals that it is a phone of laptop [...]
Last Thursday Google announced its 2012 Q3 earnings and reported consolidated revenues of $14.10B for the quarter ended September 30, 2012, an increase of 45% compared to the third quarter of 2011. But that’s not the news everyone is talking about. Even if we were to ignore the early release of the earnings by human [...]
Before getting into details lets just take a look at the history of Windows OS success story. Despite all its problems, Windows was able convince the application developers that it is a mature and widely available platform and developers can make money writing applications for the platform. As developers started adapting to Windows echo system, [...]
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