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Car Wars – III: Software Proliferates In The Car
Broadly, there are two vectors along which we can trace the recent evolutionary path of cars, hardware and software. In the first article in this series, we discussed in brief the shift from the internal combustion engine powered cars to all el...
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Alphabet Announces Google’s Results: Mobile, YouTube And Programmtic Ads Shine Through
Alphabet (NADDAQ:GOOG,GOOGL) announced Google’s results on October 22 nd and the company reported 13% year-on-year growth in revenues to $18.7 billion, in line with our expectation. On a constant-currency basis, revenues grew 21%. However, pr...
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Alphabet To Release Google’s Earnings: Revenues Likely Increased As Mobile Takes Center Stage
Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) is set to release Google’s Q3 2015 earnings on Thursday, October 22 nd . In Q3, the company reported that its revenues grew by over 11% year over year to $17.72 billion. However, cost-per-click (CPC), which has been ...
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Can Google Retain Its Edge In Mobile Search?
A recent report from comScore shows that the number of users on mobile has outnumbered that on desktops. Going forward, advertisers will focus more on mobile marketing strategies as mobile searches have exceeded PC searches, according to a recent...
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Is Facebook A Threat To YouTube In The Booming Online Video Ads Market?
Online video market has moved to the fore front of advertising over the past five years. Recently, mobile video viewing has further added impetus to this segment, primarily due to advent of mobile technology and the widespread adoption of Smart P...
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Trends In Global Advertising Industry: Winners And Losers – Part 2
In the first part of this article, we explored the trends that are shaping the global advertising industry. To summarize the first article, advertisers are increasingly allocating more of their budgets for online ads at the expense of TV and prin...
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OTAs Have A New Demon To Battle: Google!
Search Engines’ Gains Are OTAs’ Loss Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has recently launched a new commission-based advertising program for hotels, which might place it as a direct rival for the OTAs (Online Travel Agencies) such as Priceline ...
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Trends In Global Advertising Industry: Winners And Losers – Part 1
The $600 billion advertising industry, which is growing at 5% rate annually, is undergoing a rapid transition. While TV ads continue to rule the roost with over 40% share, digital ads that include online desktop and mobile ads have taken the cent...
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Car Wars – II: Why Is Apple Interested In Cars?
So it appears that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is really serious about making an electric car. The Wall Street Journal reports, citing people familiar with the matter, that Apple intends to significantly ramp-up the size of the team working on its autom...
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Car Wars – Part I: Lessons For The Auto Industry From The Ascent of The Smartphone
Porsche unveiled a new concept car at the Frankfurt Auto Show. The car is called Mission E and improves on everybody’s favorite electric car, Tesla’s Model S, in some respects. The Mission E can reach 60 Miles per hour in 3.5 seconds, its battery...
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Smartwatch War: Can Anyone Challenge Apple?
Submitted by Wall St. Daily as part of our contributors program Smartwatch War: Can Anyone Challenge Apple? By Greg Miller, Senior Technology Analyst As my colleague Louis Basenese mentioned on Wednesday, Apple’s ( AAPL ) product launc...
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Google Targets Mobile Fund Transfer And Proximity Payment Market With Android Pay
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) introduced Wallet services in 2011 and a prepaid debit card linked to its Wallet services in November 2013. However, despite this significant push by Google, Wallet’s original NFC (Near Field Communication) system failed to g...
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Death Knell For Adobe Flash As Google’s Chrome Withdraws Support, Though The Impact Will Be Minor
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) recently withdrew support for Flash based content that includes online ads. Ads using Flash will now only open once the viewer clicks on the ad to activate it. Support for Flash has waned with the emergence of HTML5, due to ...
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Should We Really Worry About Killer Robots?
Submitted by Wall St. Daily as part of our contributors program Should We Really Worry About Killer Robots? By Tim Maverick, Senior Correspondent Back in 1942, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov published a short story entitled Runaro...
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New Alphabet For Google
The current CEO of Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Larry Page, announced on Monday that the board has decided to form a new umbrella company called Alphabet, which would be a holding company for all the existing units within Google. This move will enable t...
