Facebook –the big day So later today we’ll find out how much Facebook is worth. And all the signs suggest the figure will be north of $100bn – meaning people are paying 103 times this years revenues. Given the Google flotation valued them on the first day at 69 times their revenues, this is pretty [...]
Silicon Valley soccer? Premier League is one of the most valuable global sports franchises and, whilst its glamour is diminished by the continued absence of Leeds United, the next auction of TV rights will be lucrative. As we talked about recently, the success of Sky is/was based on their acquisition of the Premier League rights [...]
Facebook names the date Its reported that May 18 is the date for the Facebook IPO. The financial world seems divided – some believe the $100bn rumoured valuation is perfectly sensible based on the huge audience. Others wonder if the ad revenue will ever justify anything like this valuation. Lex in the Financial Times has a [...]
Apple makes money shock Whilst Apple making money doesn’t seem very newsworthy anymore the latest results are worth a mention. The share price had dipped (13%) and some wondered if the amazing ride was over – a stock up 70% in four months has to take a fall sometime doesn’t it?. Well not when you report [...]
Mobile Money The pace of change in mobile money is unrelenting. The Barclays PingIt app now lets anyone (Barclays customer or not) download the app and create a PingIt wallet, then pay anyone up to £300 by using their mobile number. The recipient gets a text and, if they are not using Pingit gets asked to register. [...]
Does your heart sink every time you get invited to another meeting? Are your days filled with long meetings that should be short? And are some of them totally unnecessary? Yawn no more – we have launched Meeting Magician- a fun iPhone app that makes meetings fun again. And you can get it on Android and [...]
SoLoMoPho * Whilst you could make a strong argument for Apple, Google, Twitter or Facebook buying Instagram we think the one who needed it most was Facebook As the FT put it; Buying Instagram is an admission that, while its own mobile app is used by hundreds of millions of people, Facebook [...]
We’ve been working with Visit Britain on an Android App for Enjoy England, building on the iPhone app they launched last year. We’re delighted to say it has now gone live and you can download it here This is is the official press release; VisitEngland launches official Enjoy England Android App 30 March 2012. VisitEngland today [...]
Facebook reinventing Marketing The Facebook Marketing Conference rolled into town this week, with Facebook announcing their new tools and techniques to UK marketers. With pretty much the same story as the event in New York a few weeks ago, they are dialing up the focus on advertising ahead of the IPO. The big news is their reach [...]
This week we learnt that Mobile ad spend in the UK is up by 157% to £203m. Which sounds like progress, until you remember that total adspend is getting on for £12bn and online is well over £4bn. So we have a way to go yet. We learnt from a new study from Boston Consulting Group that [...]
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